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• Data-matching Program (Assistance and Tax) Amendment Bill 1998 (No. 2)

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Aug 2012 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Deterring People Smuggling Bill 2011

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  Date

  01 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: clarify that a non-citizen has, at a particular time, no lawful right to come to Australia if at that time the person does not meet requirements for lawfully coming to Australia under domestic law; and apply this clarification retrospectively to 16 December 1999. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Legislation Amendment Bill 2011

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  Date

  18 Aug 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Air Force Act 1923

  ,

  Defence Act 1903

  and

  Naval Defence Act 1910

  to provide the Chief of the Defence Force with: the authority to issue directions to the Service Chiefs in relation to the administration of their respective cadet schemes; and a delegation making power in relation to cadet responsibility and direction. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Legislation Amendment (Security of Defence Premises) Bill 2011

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  Date

  29 Sep 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Defence Act 1903

  to: provide that certain members of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) may use reasonable and necessary force in the event of an attack on ADF premises; establish a statutory regime of search and seizure powers to operate at ADF premises; update and relocate the trespass offence and related arrest power; authorise the ADF to use overt optical surveillance to monitor the security of ADF premises; and require the disclosure of information captured by such devices to law enforcement agencies and public prosecution authorities; and

  Australian Federal Police Act 1979

  and

  Defence Act 1903

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2010

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  Date

  17 Mar 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Defence Act 1903

  to: establish the Defence Honours and Awards Appeals Tribunal as an independent statutory body and provides for the functions and powers of the Tribunal; ensure procedural fairness in the termination and discharge process when a Defence member returns a positive result for a prohibited substance; and clarify that section 58B determinations are subject to tabling and disallowance;

  Defence Home Ownership Assistance Scheme Act 2008

  to ensure that the scheme includes all members of the Reserves (including permanent officers transferred to the Reserves); and

  Defence Force Discipline Act 1982

  to: enable the appointment of Chief Petty Officers and Flight Sergeants as discipline officers; clarify the jurisdiction of discipline officers; and provide for a uniform scale of punishments to all ranks for similar offences. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Do Not Call Register Legislation Amendment Bill 2010

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  Date

  26 Nov 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Do Not Call Register Act 2006

  to: provide that individuals can register their preference not to receive telemarketing calls or marketing faxes; and enable the minister to specify a longer period of time for which numbers remain in force on the register and to reinstate numbers that have lapsed on the register at the end of the current three-year registration period; and

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to make consequential amendments, including enabling the Australian Communications and Media Authority to develop an industry standard for the fax marketing industry. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2009

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  Date

  18 Mar 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Defence Science and Personnel 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Defence Act 1903

  to introduce a Tactical Payment Scheme to provide for no-liability payments to persons who are adversely affected by Australian Defence Force operations outside Australia; and

  Defence Home Ownership Assistance Scheme Act 2008

  in relation to: rejoining members, subsidy certificates and service credits, subsidy lump sums, shared ownership and liability, and delegations to senior employees. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Legislation (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Geneva Conventions Act 1957

  to establish a third universal emblem, the 'Red Crystal', for the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement;

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to ensure the emblem is covered by existing offence provisions relating to the improper use of emblems of the Geneva Conventions;

  Defence Act 1903

  to enable the making of regulations to provide medical and dental treatment (including pharmaceuticals) to an Australian Defence Force member or cadet or their family; and

  Defence (Special Undertakings) Act 1952

  to: provide that the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap is a special defence undertaking and a prohibited area; clarify that the Defence power is not the only constitutional basis relied upon to support the Act; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Disability Discrimination and Other Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2009

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  Date

  03 Dec 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Age Discrimination Act 2004

  to remove the 'dominant reason' test; the

  Disability Discrimination Act 1992

  ,

  Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986

  and

  Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986

  to: provide an explicit and positive duty to make reasonable adjustments for people with disabilities (which responds to the 2003 High Court decision of Purvis); respond to the Full Federal Court case of Forest in relation to carers, assistants and aids; clarify the defence of unjustifiable hardship; and replace the 'proportionality test' in the definition of indirect discrimination; 24 Acts to reflect the name change of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission to the Australian Human Rights Commission; and the

  Racial Discrimination Act 1975

  and

  Sex Discrimination Act 1984

  to make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Dairy Adjustment Levy Termination Bill 2008

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  Date

  24 Sep 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Dairy Produce Act 1986

  to finalise the Dairy Industry Adjustment Program by terminating the dairy adjustment levy, winding-up the Dairy Structural Adjustment Fund and terminating the Dairy Adjustment Authority. Also makes consequential amendments to the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973

  and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to remove references to the Dairy Industry Adjustment Program; repeals the

  Dairy Adjustment Levy (Customs) Act 2000

  ,

  Dairy Adjustment Levy (Excise) Act 2000

  and

  Dairy Adjustment Levy (General) Act 2000

  which set the dairy adjustment levy rate; and includes a regulation-making power to make transitional arrangements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum