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• Cancer Australia Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Feb 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Establishes Cancer Australia as a new statutory agency in relation to coordination of cancer control, cancer treatment and management, cancer research and implementation of cancer policies and priorities. Also provides for the terms of appointment and roles of the Chief Executive Officer, support staff and the Cancer Australia Advisory Council. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Clean Energy (Customs Tariff Amendment) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to include non-transport gaseous fuels in the carbon pricing mechanism, the bill amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to provide that the non-transport use of compressed natural gas is exempt from customs duty. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Reducing Business Compliance Burden) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Excise Amendment (Reducing Business Compliance Burden) Bill 2011, the bill amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to: permit small business entities and certain other persons to defer the settlement of customs duties from a weekly to a monthly cycle; and clarify administrative arrangements for periodic settlement permissions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Clean Energy (Customs Tariff Amendment) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Sep 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Part of a package of 18 bills to implement a carbon pricing mechanism, the bill amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to increase the customs duty rate applying to aviation and non-transport gaseous fuels by an amount equivalent to the carbon emission price of the fuel, had the gaseous fuels been subject to carbon pricing. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Improvements) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to: provide that the minister will make a decision within 30 days of receiving a report or recommendation on which to make a decision; provide that the minister may consider any impacts on jobs and investment in the domestic industry producing like goods during an investigation to determine whether material injury to an Australian industry is being caused or is threatened; reflect all countervailable subsidies under the World Trade Organization Agreements on Subsidies and Countervailing and on Agriculture; and enable industry associations, unions and downstream industry to participate in anti-dumping and countervailing investigations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (New Zealand Rules of Origin) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Jun 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to provides for changes to the rules of origin requirements in Article 3 of the Australia-New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement resulting from a review of the rules completed in 2010. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (Taxation of Alternative Fuels) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 May 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Part of a package of four bills to apply an energy content based taxation to certain alternative fuels, the bill amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to: set the customs duty rates applying to certain alternative fuels from 1 December 2011; and calculate the duty payable on blended goods. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Export Controls and Other Measures) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Mar 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Customs Act 1901

  in relation to: goods that are no longer for export; directions for the movement and storage of goods subject to Customs control; the suspension of an authority to deal; compliance requirements for warehouse licences; and reporting requirements for cargo on board a ship or aircraft that is lost or wrecked; and

  Customs Act 1901

  and

  Customs Depot Licensing Charges Act 1997

  in relation to compliance requirements for depot licences. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (2012 Harmonized System Changes) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Mar 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  as a result of the fourth review by the World Customs Organization of the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, by effecting changes required by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (relating to food security), the Rotherdam Convention (relating to hazardous chemicals and pesticides), and the Montreal Protocol (relating to halogenated hydrocarbons). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Measures) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Mar 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to: enable the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Customs to recommend, and the minister to declare, that anti-dumping measures be revoked at the end of a review; and provide for a revocation test outlining when the CEO may recommend that the minister revoke anti-dumping measures. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum