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• Statute Law Revision Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Aug 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends: 78 Acts to correct technical errors; nine Acts to update references to regulations made under the

  Civil Aviation Act 1988

  ; 13 Acts to make amendments consequential on amendments to the

  Acts Interpretation Act 1901

  and the enactment of the

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  ; three Acts to update references to ministers and departments; and 38 Acts to repeal obsolete provisions. Also repeals five Acts and makes amendments to the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  consequential on the repeals. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Commonwealth Government Securities Legislation Amendment (Retail Trading) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Act 1911

  to facilitate trading of beneficial interests in Commonwealth Government Securities (CGS) on financial markets in Australia that are accessible to retail investors; and

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: require financial advisers to provide a prescribed information statement to retail clients when they give them personal advice about investing in CGS; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Improvements) Bill (No. 3) 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to: align provisions dealing with countervailable subsidies with the World Trade Organization Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures; enable the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service to conduct inquiries to address the circumvention of trade measures by exporters or importers of goods which are subject to measures; amend sampling provisions relating to non-cooperation in anti-dumping investigations, reviews of anti-dumping measures or continuation inquiries; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Smuggled Tobacco) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to create criminal offences for the smuggling of tobacco products and for the conveyance and possession of smuggled tobacco products. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fisheries Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  and

  Fisheries Administration Act 1999

  to: facilitate the implementation of electronic monitoring (e-monitoring) of fishing and fishing-related activities undertaken by Commonwealth fishing concession and scientific permit holders, for the purposes of data collection and compliance monitoring; and make consequential amendments; and

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  in relation to: fishery closures; waiver of levies payable for surrendered statutory fishing rights; and responsibility of corporations and other concession holders for unlawful conduct of their directors, employees or agents. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Maritime Legislation Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure and Transport 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Protection of the Sea (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Act 1983

  to implement amendments to the Annexes to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships by: imposing restrictions on the discharge of sewage from passenger ships in special areas; revising requirements relating to the disposal by ships of garbage at sea; making the Energy Efficiency Design and the Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan mandatory for certain ships of 400 gross tonnage that are engaged in international trade; and clarifying the application of federal jurisdiction in certain parts of the territorial sea. Also repeals the

  Stevedoring Levy (Imposition) Act 1998

  and

  Stevedoring Levy (Collection) Act 1998

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Transport Safety Investigation Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure and Transport 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Transport Safety Investigation Act 2003

  to: provide state and territory government ministers, who have a responsibility for rail transport, with a power to request the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) to conduct certain investigations in their jurisdiction; clarify the ATSB’s capacity to conduct investigations within, or to or from, a Commonwealth territory; and provide that certain information obtained or generated by the ATSB may be disclosed under certain circumstances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax Laws Amendment (Investment Manager Regime) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to prescribe the tax treatment of returns, gains, losses and deductions on certain investments of widely held foreign funds;

  Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

  to clarify the tax treatment of returns, gains, losses and deductions on certain investments of widely held foreign funds for the 2010-11 and earlier income years where the fund has not lodged a tax return or had an assessment made of their income tax liability; and proposed

  Tax Laws Amendment (Cross-Border Transfer Pricing) Act (No. 1) 2012

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax Laws Amendment (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of two bills in relation to the managed investment trust (MIT) withholding tax, the bill amends the

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to make consequential amendments to give effect to the increase in the MIT final withholding tax rate imposed by the proposed

  Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Amendment Act 2012

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (2012 Measures No. 1) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to: reinsert coir yarn into the customs schedule; list Serbia as a developing country for the purposes of the Australian System of Tariff Preferences; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum