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• Superannuation Legislation Amendment (Reducing Illegal Early Release and Other Measures) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Nov 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Income Tax Rates Amendment (Unlawful Payments from Regulated Superannuation Funds) Bill 2012, the bill amends the:

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to provide for civil and criminal penalties for persons who promote a scheme that has resulted, or is likely to result, in the illegal early release of superannuation benefits;

  Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006

  to require that superannuation benefits that are rolled over into self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) are captured as a designated service; and

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to provide for administrative directions and penalties for contraventions relating to SMSFs. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Superannuation (Sustaining the Superannuation Contribution Concession) Imposition Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Student Identifiers Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Mar 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education 

  Summary

  Establishes a framework for the introduction of a student identifier for individuals undertaking nationally recognised vocational education and training from 1 January 2014 by: providing for how the student identifier may be assigned, collected, used and disclosed; providing for the creation of an authenticated transcript of an individual’s record of nationally recognised training undertaken; establishing the Student Identifiers Agency to administer the scheme; providing for the functions, powers, appointment and terms and conditions of the Chief Executive Officer of the agency; and making technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Statute Stocktake (Appropriations) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Deregulation 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Statute Law Revision Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Mar 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends: 39 Acts to correct technical errors and misdescribed or redundant amendments and modernise language; the

  Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983

  ,

  Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988

  and

  Inspector-General of Taxation Act 2003

  to repeal provisions relating to redundant acting appointments; the

  Fisheries Levy Act 1984

  and

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  to prescribe matters by reference to other instruments; 43 Acts to make amendments consequential on amendments to the

  Acts Interpretation Act 1901

  and the enactment of the

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  ; and 22 Acts to repeal spent and obsolete provisions. Also repeals the

  Air Passenger Ticket Levy (Collection) Act 2001

  and

  Air Passenger Ticket Levy (Imposition) Act 2001

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Sex Discrimination Amendment (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex Status) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Mar 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Sex Discrimination Act 1984

  to: provide new protections against discrimination on the basis of a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity and intersex status; provide protection against discrimination for same-sex de facto couples; and make consequential amendments; and Migration Act 1958 to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Oct 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Establishes a framework of standard regulatory powers exercised by Commonwealth agencies by providing for: monitoring and investigative powers; and enforcement provisions including civil penalties, infringement notices, enforceable undertakings and injunctions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Public Interest Disclosure Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Mar 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Public Service and Integrity 

  Summary

  The bill: establishes a framework to encourage and facilitate reporting of wrongdoing by public officials in the Commonwealth public sector; ensures that Commonwealth agencies properly investigate and respond to public interest disclosures; and provides protections to public officials who make qualifying public interest disclosures. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Public Interest Disclosure (Whistleblower Protection) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Oct 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Introduced with the Public Interest Disclosure (Whistleblower Protection) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2012, the bill establishes a framework to facilitate public interest disclosures by public officials and provides those officials with protections by providing for: processes for who can make a public interest disclosure and to whom; the conduct of investigations; public interest disclosures to third parties; the obligations of agencies; legal protections of disclosers; and oversight of the disclosures. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Public Interest Disclosure (Whistleblower Protection) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Oct 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Introduced with the Public Interest Disclosure (Whistleblower Protection) Bill 2012, the bill makes consequential amendments to the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  ,

  Ombudsman Act 1976

  ,

  Parliamentary Service Act 1999

  and

  Public Service Act 1999

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum