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• Fisheries Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  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

• Fisheries Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Sep 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fisheries Administration Act 1991

  ,

  Fishing Levy Act 1991

  and

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  in relation to the Australian Fisheries Management Authority by: making co-management arrangements with stakeholders in Commonwealth fisheries; administering the regulatory regime; restructuring management advisory committees; and charging agencies for certain services. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Farm Household Support Amendment (Ancillary Benefits) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 May 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Farm Household Support Act 1992

  to facilitate a pilot of drought policy measures to assist farmers to be trialled in Western Australia for 2010-11. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fisheries Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 May 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fisheries Administration Act 1991

  ,

  Fishing Levy Act 1991

  and

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  in relation to the Australian Fisheries Management Authority by: making co-management arrangements with stakeholders in Commonwealth fisheries; administering the regulatory regime; restructuring management advisory committees; and charging agencies for certain services. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fisheries Legislation Amendment Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Nov 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  to: enable the Australian Fisheries Management Authority to undertake certain administrative and licensing functions by an eLicensing system (GOFish); and provide that fisheries officers engaged in investigating suspected illegal fishing can be issued with, and carry, prescribed defensive equipment in the course of their duties; and

  Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984

  to clarify which individuals who receive fish directly from Torres Strait commercial fishers require a fish receiver licence. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Farm Household Support Amendment (Additional Drought Assistance Measures) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Farm Household Support Act 1992

  and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: increase the maximum allowable income exemption for the Exceptional Circumstances Relief Payment (ECRP); and extend the ECRP to more agriculture-dependent small business operators; and

  Farm Household Support Act 1992

  to enable ECRP recipients to continue to receive payments while temporarily absent from Australia for specific family or humanitarian reasons. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fisheries Legislation Amendment (New Governance Arrangements for the Australian Fisheries Management Authority and Other Matters) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Mar 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Following government endorsement of the recommendations of the Review of the Corporate Governance of Statutory Authorities and Office Holders (the Uhrig Review), the bill amends the:

  Fisheries Administration Act 1991

  ,

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  and

  Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984

  to implement changes to the governance arrangements of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority;

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  and

  Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984

  to require foreign fishing vessels to stow fishing equipment whilst transiting through the Australian Fishing Zone (AFZ); and

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  and

  Migration Act 1958

  to enable enforcement action to be taken against foreign vessels breaching international fishery management measures and boats supporting illegal fishing in the AFZ. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fisheries Legislation Amendment Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 May 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Fisheries Levy Amendment Bill 2007, the bill amends the

  Fisheries Administration Act 1991

  ,

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  ,

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  and

  Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984

  in relation to: delegation powers of the minister and the Torres Strait Protected Zone Joint Authority; management of Australia’s rights and obligations under the Torres Strait Treaty; output controls and fisheries management practices; consistency with other legislative regimes; compliance, forfeiture and enforcement procedures; the role and functions of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA); and transition of the AFMA from an authority to a commission. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fisheries Levy Amendment Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 May 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Fisheries Legislation Amendment Bill 2007, the bill amends the

  Fisheries Levy Act 1984

  to ensure levies can be collected in Torres Strait fisheries in accordance with new management and licensing arrangements provided for in the proposed

  Fisheries Legislation Amendment Act 2007

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Farm Household Support Amendment Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Mar 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Farm Household Support Act 1992

  and makes consequential amendments to the

  Age Discrimination Act 2004

  and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to provide agriculturally dependent small business operators with the same access as farmers to Exceptional Circumstances assistance, a Health Care Card and concessions for the Youth Allowance and Austudy means tests. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum