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• Telecommunications Amendment (Get a Warrant) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Jun 2013 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

   

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Citizenship Amendment (Special Residence Requirements) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Citizenship 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Citizenship Act 2007

  to enable the minister to apply alternative residence requirements to certain applicants for Australian citizenship by conferral. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Legislation Amendment (Woomera Prohibited Area) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Defence Act 1903

  to establish a framework for the administration of access to the Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA) by: enabling the minister to make the Woomera Prohibited Area Rules prescribe certain matters, including defining the WPA and the zones to be demarcated within that area; creating a permit system for access and use by non-defence users; introducing offences and penalties for entering the WPA without permission and for failing to comply with a condition of a permit; providing for compensation for any acquisition of property from a person otherwise than on just terms; and providing for a cap on compensation payable to a person for loss or damage suffered in the WPA. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to insert a regulation-making power to enable regulations to be made to provide exemptions from the single pricing requirements in the Australian Consumer Law. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Constitution Alteration (Local Government) 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the Constitution to make specific provision in relation to the granting of financial assistance by the Commonwealth to local government bodies. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• DisabilityCare Australia Fund (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Deregulation 

  Summary

  Consequential on the package of bills in relation to funding for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (DisabilityCare Australia), the bill amends the:

  COAG Reform Fund Act 2008

  to enable reimbursements to the states and territories through the COAG Reform Fund;

  Future Fund Act 2006

  to expand the Future Fund’s duties to include management of the DisabilityCare Australia Fund; and

  Nation-building Funds Act 2008

  to enable the transfer of amounts between the Building Australia Fund, Education Investment Fund, Health and Hospitals Fund and the DisabilityCare Australia Fund in certain circumstances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure and Transport 

  Summary

  Introduced with the International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) Bill 2013, the bill amends the:

  Air Services Act 1995

  to: provide that statutory liens maintain priority over security interests registered in the International Registry, provided that the statutory line was recorded first;

  Civil Aviation Act 1988

  to allow functions to be conferred on the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) to enable CASA to record, remove and exercise an Irrevocable Deregistration and Export Request Authorisation; and

  Personal Property Securities Act 2009

  to provide that the Cape Town Convention will prevail over the Act to the extent that an inconsistency applies. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure and Transport 

  Summary

  Introduced with the International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2013, the bill enables Australia’s accession to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment which will provide an international registry system to protect secure creditors who finance the acquisition of aircraft. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Privacy Amendment (Privacy Alerts) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Privacy Act 1988

  to establish a framework for the mandatory notification by regulated entities of serious data breaches to the Australian Information Commissioner and to affected individuals. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Amendment (Supporting More Australians into Work) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: increase the income free area that applies for recipients of Newstart Allowance, Widow Allowance, Partner Allowance, Parenting Payment (Partnered) and Sickness Allowance; extend eligibility for the Pensioner Education Supplement to single principal carer parents receiving Newstart Allowance payments; and provide a 12-week extension of eligibility for the Pensioner Concessioner Card to single parents who are no longer qualified for Parenting Payment (Single) because their youngest child has turned eight years of age and who do not qualify for another income support payment due to earnings from employment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum