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• Education Services for Overseas Students Legislation Amendment (Tuition Protection Service and Other Measures) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Sep 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to establish a tuition protection service, the bill amends: the

  Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000

  to: place obligations on registered international education providers when a provider fails to start or finish providing a course or when an overseas student fails to start or finish a course; provide for a national regime of national registration of providers; limit the amount of initial pre-paid fees that may be collected by a registered provider; provide that students are only eligible for a refund of the unused portion of prepaid tuition fees; and specify what details providers must keep on student records; and five Acts to make consequential amendments. Also repeals the

  Education Services for Overseas Students (Assurance Fund Contributions) Act 2000

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Amendment Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Registration Charges Consequentials) Bill 2011, the bill amends the

  Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Act 1997

  to: rebase the compulsory annual registration charge payable by all Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS) registered providers; and replace the initial registration charge payable by registered providers with an annual entry to market charge. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Registration Charges Consequentials) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Amendment Bill 2011, the bill amends the

  Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000

  to make consequential amendments to implement the rebased annual registration charge to be payable by Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students registered providers. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Excise Legislation Amendment (Condensate) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Excise Tariff Amendment (Condensate) Bill 2011, the bill amends the

  Petroleum Excise (Prices) Act 1987

  to: clarify that failure to provide petroleum producers with written notification of a Volume Weighted Average of Realised (VOLWARE) price determination does not affect the making of the determination; and provide that producers may seek a review within 28 days of receiving written notice of a final VOLWARE price determination. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Excise Tariff Amendment (Condensate) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Excise Legislation Amendment (Condensate) Bill 2011, the bill amends the

  Excise Tariff Act 1921

  to provide: that the area encompassed by the ‘Rankin Trend’ located within the North West Shelf is a prescribed condensate production area; and for the making of regulations to extend the area of the Rankin Trend to include additional reservoirs or groups of reservoirs. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Extradition and Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation Amendment Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Justice 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Extradition Act 1988

  and

  Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987

  to enable Federal Magistrates to perform functions under these Acts;

  Extradition Act 1988

  ,

  Migration Act 1958

  and

  Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987

  in relation to privacy and information disclosures relating to extradition and mutual assistance processes;

  Extradition Act 1988

  to: limit the jurisdiction to review extradition decisions to the Federal Court of Australia; enable a person to waive the extradition process in certain circumstances; provide that Australia may refuse extradition when a person may be punished, or discriminated against, upon surrender on the basis of their sex or sexual orientation; limit the factors the minister is required to consider before giving a notice accepting an extradition request; enable persons to consent to being extradited for a wider range of offences; enable the minister to give a legally enforceable undertaking as to the maximum sentence that could be imposed on a person before the person is extradited to Australia; enable a person to be prosecuted in any circumstances when Australia has refused extradition; make technical amendments relating to notices; extend the availability of bail in extradition proceedings; and make technical amendments;

  Extradition Act 1988

  and

  Migration Act 1958

  to exempt certain conduct from the definition of ‘political offence’;

  Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987

  to: expand the application of the grounds of refusal to a mutual assistance request from a foreign country; provide that evidence may be taken before an Australian magistrate for live transmission by video link back to a court in a foreign country; and enable non-conviction based proceeds of crime and non-conviction based foreign restraining orders to be registered at the request of any country;

  Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987

  and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to: provide that lawfully intercepted and accessed information is only provided to foreign countries in certain circumstances; and require the minister to report annually on the provision of this information;

  Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987

  and

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  to enable Australia to make and receive requests relating to the use of surveillance devices;

  Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987

  and

  Crimes Act 1914

  to enable forensic material to be obtained from a person in relation to a foreign serious offence at the request of a foreign country; and

  Migration Act 1958

  ,

  Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987

  and

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  to make miscellaneous and technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Energy Grants (Cleaner Fuels) Scheme Amendment Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 May 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

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

  Energy Grants (Cleaner Fuels) Scheme Act 2004

  to continue the grant arrangements for biodiesel and renewable diesel beyond 30 June 2011. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

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

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 May 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

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

  Excise Tariff Act 1921

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

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Provisional Voting) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Mar 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to provide that provisional voters are not required to provide evidence of identity. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electronic Transactions Amendment Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Electronic Transactions Act 1999

  to enable Australia to accede to the United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts 2005 to provide certainty and commercial predictability when electronic communications are used in the formation or performance of contracts between parties located in different countries. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum