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• Protecting Children from Junk Food Advertising Bill 2006 [2008]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Mar 2006 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  ALLISON, Lyn 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to impose restrictions on: food and beverage advertising on television during children’s viewing times; and advertising in schools by companies whose principal activity is the manufacture, distribution or sale of junk food. 

  Bill

• Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (Instalment Transfer Interest Charge Imposition) Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Consequential on the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax Assessment Amendment Bill 2006, the bill imposes as a tax the instalment transfer interest charge, a charge designed to recoup the time value of money associated with the transfer of exploration expenditure in working out a reduced quarterly instalment of petroleum resource rent tax that is subsequently reversed. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Petroleum Resource Rent Tax Assessment Amendment Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (Instalment Transfer Interest Charge Imposition) Bill 2006, the bill amends the:

  Petroleum Resource Rent Tax Assessment Act 1987

  to: require petroleum resource rent tax (PRRT) taxpayers to transfer and deduct transferable exploration expenditure when calculating their quarterly PRRT; allow internal corporate restructuring within company groups to occur without losing the ability to transfer exploration expenditure; allow the present value of certain expected future expenditures to close down a petroleum project to be deductible against the PRRT receipts of the project; allow deductibility for fringe benefits tax for PRRT purposes; introduce a transfer notice requirement for vendors disposing of an interest in a petroleum project; extend the lodgment period for PRRT annual returns; and make minor technical amendments; and

  Petroleum Resource Rent Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to apply the self assessment regime to PRRT. Also makes a consequential amendment to the

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Plant Health Australia (Plant Industries) Funding Amendment Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Plant Health Australia (Plant Industries) Funding Act 2002

  to: enable monies equal to the amounts received through emergency plant pest response levies and charges imposed on plant products to be appropriated out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and paid to Plant Health Australia (PHA); and authorise PHA to administer these amounts on behalf of plant industry members. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Public Works Committee Amendment Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Jun 2006 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Administration 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Public Works Committee Act 1969

  to: amend the definition of a “public work”; increase the threshold value at which projects must be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works and provide for the threshold value to be varied by regulation; and make technical amendments to update and replace certain references. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Privacy (Extension to Political Acts and Practices) Amendment Bill 2006 [2008]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Jun 2006 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  STOTT DESPOJA, Natasha 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Privacy Act 1988

  to remove the exemption in the Act for political acts and practices. 

  Bill

• Privacy Legislation Amendment Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Jun 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  National Health Act 1953

  and

  Privacy Act 1988

  to facilitate the continued operation of Medicare Australia’s Prescription Shopping Information Service which allows medical practitioners to access health information about their patients’ prescription status by permitting the collection of certain health information; and

  Privacy Act 1988

  to implement certain recommendations by the Australian Law Reform Commission and the Australian Health Ethics Committee by: amending the definitions of “health information” and “sensitive information” to include genetic information; and permitting the disclosure of genetic information to genetic relatives in certain circumstances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Protection of the Sea (Harmful Anti-fouling Systems) Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Jun 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Transport and Regional Services 

  Summary

  Implements Australia’s obligations under the International Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-fouling Systems on Ships by prohibiting the use of harmful organotins in anti-fouling paints and establishing a mechanism to prevent the potential future use of other harmful substances in anti-fouling systems used on Australian ships or foreign ships that are in an Australian shipping facility. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Payment of Accounts by Government Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Aug 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Amends the

  Parliamentary Service Act 1999

  and

  Public Service Act 1999

  to require annual reports of departments and agencies to contain details of the timing of the payment of accounts to small business. 

  Bill

• Privacy Legislation Amendment (Emergencies and Disasters) Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Sep 2006 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Privacy Act 1988

  in relation to the collection, use and disclosure of personal information about deceased, injured and missing individuals involved in an emergency or disaster occurring in Australia or overseas. Also makes a consequential amendment to the

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

  to ensure that ASIO is not prevented from disclosing information when an emergency is declared. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum