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• Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Review of Prudential Decisions) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Sep 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Banking Act 1959

  ,

  Insurance Act 1973

  ,

  Life Insurance Act 1995

  ,

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  ,

  Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997

  ,

  Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Simplifying Regulation and Review) Act 2007

  and

  Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Discretionary Mutual Funds and Direct Offshore Foreign Insurers) Act 2007

  to introduce a court-based process for disqualifying an individual from operating an Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) regulated entity;

  Banking Act 1959

  ,

  Insurance Act 1973

  and

  Life Insurance Act 1995

  in relation to APRA’s specific direction powers;

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to incorporate a materiality test into the trigger for APRA to issue a direction to freeze assets of a superannuation entity;

  Insurance Act 1973

  ,

  Life Insurance Act 1995

  and

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to remove ministerial consent from administrative decisions made by APRA or the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) under those Acts;

  Banking Act 1959

  ,

  Financial Sector Collection of Data Act 2001

  ,

  Insurance Act 1973

  ,

  Life Insurance Act 1995

  and

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to apply merits review to appropriate decisions made by APRA or the ATO; and makes consequential amendments to other Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Management and Accountability Amendment (Value for Money in Government Spending) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jun 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BARNETT, Sen Guy 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997

  to place an obligation on heads of Commonwealth agencies to seek value for money when spending Commonwealth funds and to promote the same principles within their agencies. 

  Bill

• Financial Management and Accountability (Anti-Restrictive Software Practices) Amendment Bill 2003 [2004]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Sep 2003 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  GREIG, Brian 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997

  to encourage the acquisition of open source computer software by government agencies. 

  Bill

• Financial Institutions Supervisory Levies Collection Amendment Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Aug 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of seven bills to implement changes to the financial sector levy setting framework, the bill amends the

  Financial Institutions Supervisory Levies Collection Act 1998

  to enable levies to be collected from authorised non-operating holding companies in the general insurance sector as well as those in the authorised deposit-taking institutions sector. Also contains an application provision. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jun 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Deregulation 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986

  to clarify the body corporate status of the Australian Human Rights Commission under the

  Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997

  ;

  Australian Law Reform Commission Act 1996

  to enable the Australian Law Reform Commission to become a prescribed agency under the

  Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997

  and a statutory agency for the purposes of the

  Public Service Act 1999

  ;

  Australian Postal Corporation Act 1989

  to include references to general policy orders;

  Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation Act 1980

  to rename the corporation as Wine Australia Corporation;

  Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997

  in relation to: annual reports of Commonwealth authorities; notification of significant events; delegation power of the Finance Minister; references; interjurisdictional authorities; bodies corporate reporting requirements; procurement directions; general policy orders; and ministerial delegations of powers and functions;

  Criminology Research Act 1971

  to merge the Criminology Research Council with the Australian Institute of Criminology;

  Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997

  in relation to: a ministerial requirement to inform Parliament of involvement in a company by their department, agencies and bodies corporate; and regulations to prescribe an agency as an interjurisdictional agency;

  National Transport Commission Act 2003

  to provide that the

  Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997

  applies to the commission;

  Parliamentary Service Act 1999

  to clarify that the appropriation authority for certain payments is contained in the relevant Appropriation Act; and

  Trade Practices Act 1974

  to clarify the body corporate status of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Also: repeals six Acts and provisions of 11 other Acts to remove redundant special appropriations and other outdated references; and makes amendments consequential to the amendments to the

  Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation Act 1980

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Aug 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Administration 

  Summary

  Further to the accrual budgeting and reporting framework introduced by the

  Financial Management Legislation Amendment Act 1999

  , the bill amends 112 Acts, including the

  Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997

  and

  Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997

  , to: update, clarify and align financial management and reporting provisions applying to Commonwealth entities; expand information requirements for special account determinations; and transfer from the Treasurer to the Finance Minister powers and functions to approve investments, money raising and guarantees for certain bodies (including power to delegate these powers and functions). Also repeals 28 redundant Acts and contains saving provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Accountability Regime Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Sep 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Financial Sector Reform Bill 2022, Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy Bill 2022 and Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy (Collection) Bill 2022, the bill establishes a financial accountability regime to impose accountability, key personnel, deferred remuneration and notification obligations on directors and senior executives of financial entities in the banking, insurance and superannuation industries. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Accountability Regime Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response No. 3) Bill 2021, Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy Bill 2021 and Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy (Collection) Bill 2021, the bill establishes a financial accountability regime to impose accountability, key personnel, deferred remuneration and notification obligations on directors and senior executives of financial entities in the banking, insurance and superannuation industries. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Accountability (Commonwealth support of non-public sector bodies) Bill 1998

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 May 1998 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

   

  Summary

  Private Member's bill - Mr Rocher 

  Bill

• Film Licensed Investment Company Bill 1998

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 May 1998 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Communications, the Information Economy and the Arts Portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum