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• Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (More Help for Families—One-off Payments) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 May 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  ,

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to provide for a one-off payment to eligible families; and

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to provide for one-off payments to carer allowance and carer payment recipients. Also establishes an administrative scheme to provide payments if the statutory one-off payments regime does not produce an appropriate result. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Law Amendment Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Apr 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Family Law Act 1975

  in relation to: interaction of bankruptcy and family law; enforcement of court orders; replacement of certain outdated terms (including introduction of the term “divorce”); recovery of child maintenance paid by a person found not to be a parent; the court’s power in relation to vexatious litigants; clarification of the rule-making power of the Family Court; and technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Extension of Time Limits) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Sep 2003 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  to extend time frames in relation to: past period lump sum claims for family tax benefit (FTB) and child care benefit; payment of top-ups of FTB as a result of income reconciliation; and exchange, use and destruction of tax file number data for income reconciliation purposes; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to make consequential amendments to allow tax advisers’ fees for FTB lump sums claims that relate to the 2001-02 income year to be tax deductible. Also contains application provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment (Budget Initiatives and Other Measures) Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Sep 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  in relation to correspondence and payment nominees; and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to extend carer payment eligibility to carers of terminally ill profoundly disabled children. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment (Special Benefit Activity Test) Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Sep 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to require holders of certain specified visas issued for temporary protection, humanitarian or safe haven purposes to satisfy a special benefit activity test similar to the one that currently operates in relation to newstart allowance, and other newstart allowance conditions;

  Social Security Act 1991

  to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the proposed

  Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment (Australians Working Together and Other 2001 Budget Measures) Act 2002

  to ensure that activity test requirements are applied consistently to both special beneficiaries and newstart allowees; and

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Consequential and Related Measures) Act (No. 2) 1999

  and

  Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment (1999 Budget and Other Measures) Act 1999

  to correct cross-references as a result of the enactment of the

  Youth Allowance Consolidation Act 2000

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment (Disability Reform) Bill (No. 2) 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jun 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to: change the qualification criteria for disability support pension (DSP) in relation to work capacity for people who apply for DSP from 1 July 2003; and restrict exemptions from the activity test requirements for newstart allowance and youth allowance recipients. Also contains application and transitional provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Law Legislation Amendment (Superannuation) (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jun 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to ensure that appropriate means test assessment is applied to superannuation interests that are split pursuant to the

  Family Law Legislation Amendment (Superannuation) Act 2001

  ;

  Family Law Act 1975

  to: clarify the valuing of superannuation interests; enable the consolidation of superannuation plans and the transfer of a superannuation interest to a successor plan; and make minor technical and correcting amendments; and

  Judges’ Pensions Act 1968

  to authorise the making of regulations for determining the proportion of a pension that had accrued at the time of a judge’s marriage breakdown. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Sector Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Mar 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Act 1998

  and

  Financial Institutions Supervisory Levies Collection Act 1998

  in relation to financial institutions supervisory levies;

  Financial Sector (Transfers of Business) Act 1999

  in relation to a transfer of a business;

  Insurance Act 1973

  in relation to general insurance matters;

  General Insurance Reform Act 2001

  to correct a drafting error;

  Insurance Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1991

  to remove the 30 day time limit for ministerial approval of an application for a merger or acquisition; and make consequential amendments;

  Life Insurance Act 1995

  to remove sunset clauses on the right to appeal prudential decisions to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal;

  Reserve Bank Act 1959

  in relation to: superannuation provisions and procedures for Reserve Bank, Reserve Bank Board and Payments System Board appointments, terminations and resignations; and location of the head office;

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  in relation to: winding up procedures for superannuation funds with less than five members; and Australian Taxation Office secrecy provisions; and

  Superannuation Supervisory Levy Imposition Act 1998

  in relation to the levy payable by a previously unregulated superannuation entity. 

  Bill

• Family Law Amendment (Child Protection Convention) Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Mar 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Family Law Act 1975

  to enable Australia to ratify the 1996 Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-operation in respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment (Further Simplification of International Payments) Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Family and Community Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to bring the payment of Australian pensions to people overseas long-term in line with international standards; and standardise the recovery of overpayments to people receiving a foreign pension lump sum arrears payment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum