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• Corporations and Financial Sector Legislation Amendment Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Mar 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Passed Both Houses 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Payments Systems and Netting Act 1998

  to provide that client positions and associated collateral of a defaulting participant in a clearing facility may be ported to another solvent participant despite legislative impediments;

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: enable the Australian Securities Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to determine how often they assess compliance by particular Australian market licence and clearing and settlement facility licence holders with their legal obligations; and make consequential amendments;

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  to: extend the powers of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services to inquire into and report on the operation of any foreign business law which may affect the operation of the corporations law; require ASIC to report annually on the use of its information gathering powers and on additional information if required by the minister; and make consequential amendments;

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  and

  Mutual Assistance in Business Regulation Act 1992

  to authorise ASIC to disclose protected information to international business regulators;

  Reserve Bank 1959

  to enable the RBA to disclose protected information to external persons and bodies; and

  Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011

  and

  Clean Energy Regulator Act 2011

  to enable the Clean Energy Regulator to share protected information with licensed and prescribed trade repositories. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Corporations Legislation Amendment (Audit Enhancement) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Feb 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Passed Both Houses 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: enable directors of a listed company or listed registered scheme to extend the auditor rotation period for up to two years in certain circumstances; and require auditors who audit 10 or more certain types of entities to publish a transparency report; and

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  to: revise the functions of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) to require the FRC to provide the minister and professional accounting bodies with strategic policy advice and reports in relation to the quality of audits conducted by Australian auditors; enable the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to publish an audit deficiency report in relation to specified audit failures by an Australian auditor identified by ASIC; and enable ASIC to communicate certain information obtained during an audit directly with an audited body. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Corporations Legislation Amendment (Financial Reporting Panel) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  ,

  Corporations Act 2001

  and

  Corporations (Fees) Act 2001

  to close the Financial Reporting Panel by repealing its functions and powers; and

  Corporations Act 2001

  to enable courts or tribunals to continue to have regard to previous reports by the panel. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Court Security (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Mar 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Passed Both Houses 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Court Security Bill 2013, the bill amends the

  Public Order (Protection of Persons and Property) Act 1971

  to remove provisions which overlap with the proposed

  Court Security Act 2013

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Court Security Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Mar 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Passed Both Houses 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Court Security (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2013, the bill enables all federal courts, the Family Court of Western Australia and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to manage security issues by: allowing them to appoint persons as security officers and authorised courts officers; prescribing powers that security officers are able to exercise; prescribing offences; enabling judicial officers of court exercising family law jurisdiction to make restraining or protective type orders in certain circumstances; providing for immunity from suit of security officers; providing for compensation for damage to certain devices or data; and enabling the delegation of certain powers and functions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Courts and Tribunals Legislation Amendment (Administration) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Oct 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Native Title Act 1993

  to: enable the transfer of the National Native Title Tribunal’s appropriations, staff and some of its administrative functions to the Federal Court of Australia; and provide that the tribunal is no longer a statutory agency for the purposes of the

  Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997

  and the

  Public Service Act 1999

  ;

  Family Law Act 1975

  and

  Federal Circuit Court of Australia Act 1999

  to enable the merger of the administrative functions of the Family Court of Australia and the Federal Magistrates Court of Australia, including by establishing a single Chief Executive Officer position for both courts; and

  Ombudsman Act 1976

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes Amendment (Fairness for Minors) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  HANSON-YOUNG, Sen Sarah 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Crimes Act 1914

  to define timeframes and set up evidentiary procedures for age determination and prosecution of non-citizens who are suspected or accused of people smuggling offences under the

  Migration Act 1958

  who may have been minors at the time the offences were allegedly committed. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes Legislation Amendment (Law Enforcement Integrity, Vulnerable Witness Protection and Other Measures) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006

  to: authorise Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) staff to provide AUSTRAC information to the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity (ACLEI) with appropriate protection for that information; enable AUSTRAC to conduct internal reviews of certain decisions; create an exception to an offence and extend certain offences; enable the Clean Energy Regulator and the Integrity Commission of Tasmania to access AUSTRAC data; and enable AUSTRAC to engage private sector secondees;

  Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Act 2006

  to: require certain evidence to only be given in private; and enable the ACLEI to second employees of the Australian Federal Police and other unsworn police officers;

  Crimes Act 1914

  and

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  in relation to victims of slavery, slavery-like and human trafficking offences to: extend vulnerable witness protections to adult victims and to enable evidence to be given in retrials and subsequent trials; provide for the use of victim impact statements; and enable courts to hear evidence by video-link from witnesses outside Australia;

  Crimes Act 1914

  to remove wrist x-ray as a prescribed age determination procedure;

  Migration Act 1958

  to: ensure that the prosecution bears the onus of proof in establishing age; enable the use of evidentiary certificates in the prosecution of people smuggling offences; provide that all the time spent in immigration detention or on remand prior to sentencing is recognised in the sentencing of those convicted of people smuggling offences;

  International Transfer of Prisoners Act 1997

  and

  International War Crimes Tribunals Act 1995

  to enable Australia to recognise the United Nations’ International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals;

  Australian Federal Police Act 1979

  to enable the minister to enter into certain arrangements with either the administrator or the minister responsible for an external territory; and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to make a technical amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes Legislation Amendment (Organised Crime and Other Measures) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Nov 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Justice 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

  to respond to recommendations of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement report

  Inquiry into Commonwealth unexplained wealth legislation and arrangements

  by: ensuring that evidence relevant to unexplained wealth proceedings can be seized under a search warrant; allowing the time limit for serving notice of a preliminary unexplained wealth order to be extended by a court in certain circumstances; harmonising provisions relating to the payment of legal expenses for unexplained wealth cases; allowing charges to be created over restrained property to secure payment of an unexplained wealth order; removing a court’s discretion to make unexplained wealth restraining orders, preliminary unexplained wealth orders and unexplained wealth orders once relevant criteria are satisfied; and expanding the parliamentary joint committee’s oversight of unexplained wealth investigations and litigation; and

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: provide that cross-border firearms trafficking offences cover firearm parts; introduce aggravated offences for dealing in 50 or more firearms and firearm parts; increase the penalties for illegal importation or exportation of larger numbers of firearms; and introduce aggravated offences for importing or exporting 50 or more firearms or firearm parts during a six month period. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Criminal Code Amendment (Misrepresentation of Age to a Minor) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Feb 2013 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Amends the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: create a criminal offence for a person over 18 years of age to intentionally misrepresent their age in online communications to a person they reasonably believe to be under 18 years of age for the purposes of encouraging a physical meeting, or with the intention of committing an offence; and impose penalties. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum