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• Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Amendment Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Feb 2013 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Sport 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Act 2006

  to: provide the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) Chief Executive Officer or their delegate with the power to issue a disclosure notice to compel persons to attend an interview with an investigator and to produce information and documents or things relevant to the administration of the National Anti-Doping Scheme; impose penalties for failing to comply with a disclosure notice; clarify the role of the Anti-Doping Rule Violation Panel; provide that conflict of interest provisions apply to matters relating to activities of the panel or the Australian Sports Drug Medical Advisory Committee; and clarify that the eight year statute of limitations specified in the World Anti-Doping Code applies in Australia’s anti-doping arrangements; and

  Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Act 2006

  and

  Australian Postal Corporation Act 1989

  to enable Australia Post to share information with ASADA. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Banking Amendment (Controls on Variable Interest Rate Changes) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Nov 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  BROWN, Sen Bob 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Banking Act 1959

  to require authorised deposit-taking institutions for a 24-month period to: not increase variable interest rate loans and mortgages by more than the Reserve Bank interest rate increases; and not decrease variable interest rate loans and mortgages by less than the Reserve Bank interest rate decreases. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Banking Amendment (Delivering Essential Financial Services) Bill 2010 (No. 2)

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Sep 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  BROWN, Sen Bob 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Banking Act 1959

  to: require banks to offer basic transaction accounts and to limit other fees to cost recovery; provide that transactions at a bank’s own-branded ATMs are free of charge; cap charges for the use of a bank’s ATMs by customers of another authorised deposit-taking institution (ADI); require ADIs to offer fixed interest gap loans and mortgages; cap mortgage and loan exit fees at cost recovery; and require uniform identification of exit fees in advertising and in mortgage and loan contracts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Bankruptcy Amendment (Exceptional Circumstances Exit Package) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the Bankruptcy Regulations 1996 to provide that payments made under the Exceptional Circumstances Exit Package on or after 1 July 2010 are exempt from bankruptcy proceedings where a final order in bankruptcy has not been finalised by the courts or the debts paid. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Biosecurity Bill 2012 [2013]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Nov 2012 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Inspector-General of Biosecurity Bill 2012 [2013], the bill responds to the Nairn and Beale reviews by providing for a modern regulatory framework (which reflects and replaces the

  Quarantine Act 1908

  ) to: manage biosecurity risks, the risk of contagion of a listed human disease, the risk of listed human diseases entering Australian territory, risks related to ballast water, biosecurity emergencies and human biosecurity emergencies; and give effect to Australia’s international rights and obligations, including the World Health Organization’s International Health Regulations and Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, and the Convention on Biological Diversity. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Anti-Siphoning) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Nov 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

  BROWN, Sen Bob 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to provide that a notice to amend the anti-siphoning list does not come into effect until the expiration of six sitting days of each House of Parliament after the notice is tabled in that House; and Broadcasting Services (Events) Notice (No. 1) 2004 to remove the expiry date from the current anti-siphoning list. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Services Amendment (Advertising for Sports Betting) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 May 2013 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Amends the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to: prohibit the advertising of odds for sports betting at any time; restrict advertisements for sports betting on television and radio after 9.00 pm; prohibit the broadcasting of information about sports odds within 30 minutes of a sports broadcast or a sports-related broadcast; and prohibit the promotion of sports betting products and services outside commercial breaks. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Services Amendment (Anti-siphoning) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Portfolio

  Broadband, Communications and the Ditigal Economy 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  in relation to free-to-air television coverage of anti-siphoning events by: restricting the acquisition of rights to televise anti-siphoning events by subscription television licensees; restricting the conferral of online coverage rights on content service providers; imposing coverage obligations on free-to-air broadcasting (anti-hoarding rules); imposing notification requirements concerning the acquisition and cessation of rights to televise anti-siphoning events, or entitlements to confer such rights, on commercial television broadcasting licensees, national broadcasters and their program suppliers; and requiring the minister to cause a review of anti-siphoning before 31 December 2014. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Services Amendment (Material of Local Significance) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Mar 2013 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Amends the

  Broadcasting Act Services Act 1992

  to include regional South Australia in the areas to which regional aggregated commercial television broadcasting licences apply so that specific local content requirements are met. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Services Amendment (Public Interest Test) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Before Senate 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Amends the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to enable the Australian Communications and Media Authority to apply a public interest test to changes in the control of certain media operations on or after 28 June 2012. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum