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  • Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Measures) Bill 2013

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    29 May 2013 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Before Senate 
    Portfolio
    Home Affairs 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Amendment Bill 2013, the bill amends the
    Customs Act 1901
    to: remove, in certain circumstances, the minister’s mandatory consideration of the lesser duty rule; align the retrospective duties provisions of the anti-dumping system with the relevant World Trade Organization agreements; clarify that the minister is the decision maker for certain findings; and provide for a circumvention activity to address sales at a loss and other similar practices. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Amendment Bill 2013

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    29 May 2013 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Before Senate 
    Portfolio
    Home Affairs 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Measures) Bill 2013, the bill amends the
    Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Act 1975
    to remove, in certain circumstances, the minister’s mandatory consideration of the lesser duty rule. 

    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

  • Social Security Legislation Amendment (Public Housing Tenants’ Support) Bill 2013

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    29 May 2013 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Before Senate 
    Portfolio
    Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 
    Summary
    Amends the
    A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999
    and
    Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
    to establish the Housing Payment Deduction Scheme to provide for rent and household utilities to be compulsorily deducted from specified welfare payments to public housing tenants who are in significant rental arrears that could lead to eviction or housing abandonment. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Tax Laws Amendment (2013 Measures No. 2) Bill 2013

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    29 May 2013 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Before Senate 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Amends: the
    Taxation Administration Act 1953
    to: require certain large entities to pay Pay As You Go instalments monthly rather than quarterly or annually; require the Commissioner to publish limited information about the tax affairs of large corporate taxpayers; enable the publication of periodic aggregate tax collection information; and enable information sharing between government agencies in relation to foreign acquisitions and investment decisions affecting Australia; the
    Income Tax Assessment Act 1936
    ,
    Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
    and
    Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997
    to provide a tax incentive for entities that carry on a nationally significant infrastructure project that has been designated by the Infrastructure Coordinator; the
    Petroleum Resource Rent Tax Assessment Act 1987
    to address unintended impacts arising from the Federal Court’s decision in
    Esso Australia Resources Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation
    [2012] FCAFC 5; the
    Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
    to: remove the capital gains tax discount on discount capital gains accrued after 8 May 2012 by foreign and temporary resident individuals; and exempt from income tax, payments made under the Defence Abuse Reparation Scheme; the
    A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999
    to ensure that certain National Disability Insurance Scheme funded supports are GST-free; the
    Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
    ,
    Tax Laws Amendment (2011 Measures No. 2) Act 2011
    and proposed
    Tax Laws Amendment (Special Conditions for Not-for-profit Concessions) Act 2013
    in relation to deductible gift recipients; the
    Income Tax Assessment Act 1936
    ,
    Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
    and
    Infrastructure Australia Act 2008
    to make consequential amendments; and seven Acts to make technical amendments. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Country of Origin Food Labelling) Bill 2013

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    16 May 2013 
    Chamber
    Senate 
    Status
    Before Senate 
    Sponsor
     
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Competition and Consumer Act 2010
    to: create specific requirements for country of origin labelling for food; extend country of origin labelling to all packaged and unpackaged food for retail sale; restrict the range of labelling to three kinds of claim; and create penalties and defences; and
    Imported Food Control Act 1992
    to make consequential amendments. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

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