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• Fair Work Amendment (Small Business—Penalty Rates Exemption) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Aug 2012 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to provide that businesses in the restaurant and catering or retail industries with fewer than 20 full-time and full-time equivalent employees are only required to pay penalty rates where an employee has worked more than ten hours in a 24-hour period, or more than 38 hours in a seven-day period. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fisheries Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2012

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  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

• Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 3) 2012

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  Date

  26 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Deregulation 

  Summary

  Responds to the High Court’s decision in

  Williams v Commonwealth

  [2012] HCA 23 by amending the:

  Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997

  (FMA Act) to empower the Commonwealth, where authority does not otherwise exist, to make, vary or administer arrangements under which public money is or may become payable, or to make grants of financial assistance, including payments or grants for the purposes of particular programs, where those arrangements or grants are specified in regulations;

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977

  to clarify that decisions made under these provisions of the FMA Act are not subject to judicial review; and Financial Management and Accountability Regulations 1997 to specify, for the purposes of these provisions of the FMA Act, arrangements, grants and programs. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2012

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  Date

  31 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to: require that the rules of all registered organisations deal with disclosure of remuneration, pecuniary and financial interests; increase civil penalties; strengthen the investigative powers of Fair Work Australia; and require education and training to be provided to officials of registered organisations about their governance and accounting obligations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2012

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  Date

  30 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Deregulation 

  Summary

  Amends: nine Acts to provide a mechanism, called a ‘recoverable payment’, to provide authority for inadvertent overpayments of certain benefits and for their recovery;

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to enable the Commissioner of Taxation to make a ‘recoverable advance’ of an amount to which the recipient may become entitled to in future because the likely cost of not making these payments would exceed the total of the advance; seven Acts to authorise the Commonwealth to make ‘recoverable death payments’ to recipients until ComSuper or the relevant secretary is notified of the recipient’s death; eight Acts to require that where recoverable payments, advances or death payments are made, the relevant secretary or chief executive ensures that a report is published; 11 Acts to align administrative processes for making certain payments with the relevant legislation;

  ComSuper Act 2011

  to enable the Chief Executive Officer to delegate certain functions and powers;

  National Residue Survey Administration Act 1992

  to clarify that an expenditure program may be approved by the minister after payments are required to be made; and

  Superannuation Act 1976

  to clarify that the Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation’s (CSC) ability to recover amounts of benefit paid applies only to amounts paid by CSC. Also validates certain benefits under the

  Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973

  to regularise the treatment of certain benefit recipients. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment (Schoolkids Bonus Budget Measures) Bill 2012

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  Date

  09 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance Act) 1999

  ,

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance Act) (Administration) 1999

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to: provide for the schoolkids bonus ($410 per child in primary school and $820 per child in high school) to be paid in January and July each year from 2013; remove the Education Tax Refund (ETR) from the 2011-12 financial year; and provide for a one-off transitional lump sum ETR payment ($409 per child in primary school and $818 per child in high school) in June 2012; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Federal Financial Relations Amendment (National Health Reform) Bill 2012

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  Date

  22 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Federal Financial Relations Act 2009

  to: index and subsequently adjust the National Disability specific purpose payment; replace the National Healthcare specific purpose payment with National Health Reform payment funding; and remove the requirement to separately determine components of GST revenue for the purposes of the Minister’s annual determination of GST revenue. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Law Amendment (Validation of Certain Orders and Other Measures) Bill 2012

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  Date

  14 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  The bill: confers rights and liabilities on all persons who had sought or were granted orders by the Family Court of Australia or the Federal Magistrates Court of Australia in the de facto financial causes jurisdiction and the relevant appellate jurisdiction of the Family Court of Australia between the date the jurisdiction was conferred and when certain Proclamations were made; and amends the

  Family Law Act 1975

  to provide that regulations may be made to provide a date from which the jurisdiction of the Family Court of Australia must not be exercised in certain circumstances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2012

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  Date

  16 Feb 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Deregulation 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Auditor-General Act 1997

  to clarify that the Auditor-General may accept an appointment under the

  Corporations Act 2001

  as an auditor of any Commonwealth controlled company;

  Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997

  to: ensure that directors of Commonwealth authorities and wholly-owned Commonwealth companies prepare Budget estimates as directed by the Finance Minister; and ensure that directors of Commonwealth authorities and wholly-owned Commonwealth companies notify the responsible minister of decisions to undertake certain significant events;

  Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Act 2010

  to make technical amendments; and

  Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997

  to: enable the Finance Minister to clarify the day on which a special account determination commences; focus the operation of drawing rights on payments and remove the penalty relating to drawing rights; enable the Finance Minister, on behalf of the Commonwealth, to exercise a discretion to ‘set-off’ amounts owed to the Commonwealth with amounts payable to the Commonwealth; and provide that the Finance Minister cannot delegate certain powers or functions. Also repeals the

  Appropriation (Development Bank) Act 1975

  and

  Car Dealership Financing Guarantee Appropriation Act 2009

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Feb 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  ,

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to: replace the maternity immunisation allowance by making payment of the family tax benefit (FTB) Part A supplement conditional on a child meeting the immunisation requirements; pause the indexation of baby bonus for three years from 1 July 2012 and reset the amount of baby bonus to $5000 per child from 1 September 2012; and prevent an individual from being entitled to FTB as fortnightly instalments on the basis of estimated income in certain circumstances;

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to give certain carer allowance recipients, who care for a disabled adult, access to bereavement payments on the death of the care receiver;

  Social Security Act 1991

  to allow access to carer supplement for those carers whose rate of payment is reduced to nil because of employment income received in the fortnight covering 1 July in any given year; and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  ,

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum