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  • Corporations Legislation Amendment (Derivative Transactions) Bill 2012

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    12 Sep 2012 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Corporations Act 2001
    to: enable the minister to prescribe a certain class of derivatives (in relation to a mandatory obligation); require the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to then issue a derivatives transaction rule for participants transacting in the prescribed class of derivatives; require any such rule to be consented to by the minister; and introduce a licensing regime for trade repositories; and
    Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Act 1998
    ,
    Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001
    ,
    Mutual Assistance in Business Regulation Act 1992
    and
    Reserve Bank Act 1959
    to make consequential amendments. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Commonwealth Government Securities Legislation Amendment (Retail Trading) Bill 2012

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    27 Jun 2012 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Act 1911
    to facilitate trading of beneficial interests in Commonwealth Government Securities (CGS) on financial markets in Australia that are accessible to retail investors; and
    Corporations Act 2001
    to: require financial advisers to provide a prescribed information statement to retail clients when they give them personal advice about investing in CGS; and make technical amendments. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Improvements) Bill (No. 3) 2012

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    Date
    27 Jun 2012 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Home Affairs 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Customs Act 1901
    to: align provisions dealing with countervailable subsidies with the World Trade Organization Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures; enable the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service to conduct inquiries to address the circumvention of trade measures by exporters or importers of goods which are subject to measures; amend sampling provisions relating to non-cooperation in anti-dumping investigations, reviews of anti-dumping measures or continuation inquiries; and make technical amendments. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Customs Amendment (Smuggled Tobacco) Bill 2012

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    Date
    27 Jun 2012 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Attorney-General 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Customs Act 1901
    to create criminal offences for the smuggling of tobacco products and for the conveyance and possession of smuggled tobacco products. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Corporations Legislation Amendment (Financial Reporting Panel) Bill 2012

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    Date
    21 Jun 2012 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001
    ,
    Corporations Act 2001
    and
    Corporations (Fees) Act 2001
    to close the Financial Reporting Panel by repealing its functions and powers; and
    Corporations Act 2001
    to enable courts or tribunals to continue to have regard to previous reports by the panel. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Customs Tariff Amendment (2012 Measures No. 1) Bill 2012

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    Date
    20 Jun 2012 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Home Affairs 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Customs Tariff Act 1995
    to: reinsert coir yarn into the customs schedule; list Serbia as a developing country for the purposes of the Australian System of Tariff Preferences; and make technical amendments. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Crimes Legislation Amendment (Slavery, Slavery-like Conditions and People Trafficking) Bill 2012

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    Date
    30 May 2012 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Attorney-General 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Criminal Code Act 1995
    to: insert offences of forced labour, forced marriage, organ trafficking and harbouring a victim; ensure the slavery offence applies to conduct which renders a person a slave, as well as conduct involving a person who is already a slave; extend the application of existing offences of deceptive recruiting and sexual servitude to non-sexual servitude and all forms of deceptive recruiting; increase penalties for debt bondage offences; broaden the definition of exploitation to include all slavery-like practices; and amend existing definitions to provide that the broadest range of exploitative conduct is criminalised;
    Crimes Act 1914
    to increase the availability of reparation orders to individual victims of Commonwealth offences; and
    Crimes Act 1914
    ,
    Migration Act 1958
    ,
    Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
    and
    Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979
    to make consequential amendments. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Corporations Amendment (Proxy Voting) Bill 2012

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    Date
    24 May 2012 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Corporations Act 2001
    to clarify that the chair of an annual general meeting, who is a member of the key management personnel or a closely related party of a key management personnel, is able to vote undirected proxies in the non-binding vote where the shareholder provides their express authorisation for the chair to exercise the proxy. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Clean Energy (Customs Tariff Amendment) Bill 2012

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    Date
    23 May 2012 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Home Affairs 
    Summary
    Part of a package of three bills to include non-transport gaseous fuels in the carbon pricing mechanism, the bill amends the
    Customs Tariff Act 1995
    to provide that the non-transport use of compressed natural gas is exempt from customs duty. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Clean Energy (Excise Tariff Legislation Amendment) Bill 2012

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    Date
    23 May 2012 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Part of a package of three bills to include non-transport gaseous fuels in the carbon pricing mechanism, the bill amends the
    Excise Act 1901
    and
    Excise Tariff Act 1921
    to provide that the non-transport use of compressed natural gas is exempt from excise duty. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

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