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• Transport Security Amendment (Testing and Training) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Dec 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Aviation Transport Security Act 2004

  to: introduce powers for aviation security inspectors to conduct covert compliance testing of aviation industry participants' aviation security systems at all regulated locations; provide certain exemptions for aviation security inspectors from civil or criminal liability when they are covertly testing aviation industry participants' aviation security systems; and

  Aviation Transport Security Act 2004

  and

  Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003

  to: require screening officers to have completed relevant training and to hold relevant qualifications prior to exercising powers or performing screening functions; allow for the making of legislative instruments to determine training, qualifications and other requirements for specified screening officers in the exercise of powers or performance of screening functions, and requirements relating to the use of identity cards and uniforms; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Transport Security Legislation Amendment (2010 Measures No. 1) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Mar 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Aviation Transport Security Act 2004

  to: allow the prohibited items list to be made by legislative instrument; and enable the secretary to delegate powers and functions to a Senior Executive Service (SES) officer in the Attorney-General’s Department; and

  Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003

  to: exempt ship operators from certain security requirements in certain circumstances; make regulations to define different classes of passenger ships and to enable screening officers to conduct frisk searches of passengers and crew; enable certain persons to be appointed as security assessment inspectors; enable the secretary to delegate powers and functions to agency heads and certain SES officers in other agencies in certain circumstances; and make amendments in relation to image recording powers. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Transport Security Legislation Amendment Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Dec 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure and Regional Development 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Aviation Transport Security Act 2004

  to enable people, vehicles and goods to undergo aviation security screening within an airside area or zone at a security controlled airport; and

  Aviation Transport Security Act 2004

  and

  Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003

  to enable the secretary to delegate his or her powers to lower level Australian Public Service employees. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (2016 Measures No. 1) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Dec 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Terrorism Insurance Act 2003

  to clarify that losses attributable to terrorist attacks using chemical or biological means are covered by the terrorism insurance scheme;

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: provide that employee share scheme disclosure documents lodged with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission are not made publicly available for certain start-up companies; and provide protection for retail client money and property held by financial services licensees in relation to over-the-counter derivative products;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to update the list of deductible gift recipients; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to provide income tax relief to eligible New Zealand special category visa holders who are impacted by disasters in Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (2017 Enterprise Incentives No. 1) Bill 2017

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  Date

  30 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to: supplement the ‘same business test’ with a ‘similar business test’ for the purposes of working out whether a company’s tax losses and net capital losses from previous income years can be used as a tax deduction in a current income year; and make consequential amendments; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to provide taxpayers with the choice to self-assess the effective life of certain intangible depreciating assets they start to hold on or after 1 July 2016. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (2017 Enterprise Incentives No. 2) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Jun 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: create a safe harbour for company directors from personal liability for insolvent trading if the company is undertaking a restructure outside formal insolvency; and

  Corporations Act 2001

  and

  Payment Systems and Netting Act 1998

  to make certain contractual rights unenforceable while a company is restructuring under certain formal insolvency processes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (2017 Measures No. 1) Bill 2017

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  Date

  16 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to ensure that investors who invest through an interposed trust are able to access the capital gain concessions provided by the tax incentives for early stage investors and venture capital investment measures; and

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  to specify that the sharing of confidential information by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission with the Commissioner of Taxation is authorised use and disclosure of that information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (2017 Measures No. 2) Bill 2017

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  Date

  25 May 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends: six Acts to make amendments arising out of the enactment of the

  Treasury Laws Amendment (Fair and Sustainable Superannuation) Act 2016

  in relation to: the transfer balance cap; concessional and non-concessional contributions; limited recourse borrowing arrangements; objective of superannuation; transition to retirement income streams; capital gains tax relief for superannuation funds; and administrative processes; the

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  and

  Corporations Act 2001

  to enable a single approval to cover a profit or advantage received by an external administrator or trustee even when the benefit is passed on to multiple related entitles; and the

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: ensure that annual and end-of-control returns by controllers are included on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s public register; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (2017 Measures No. 3) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Jun 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  and

  Corporations Act 2001

  to validate certain agreements to employ or engage Australian Securities and Investments Commission staff that were purportedly made before the end of 9 March 2017. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (2017 Measures No. 4) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Jun 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Wine Equalisation Tax) Act 1999

  to: introduce additional eligibility criteria for the wine equalisation tax (WET) producer rebate; provide that a purchaser of wine is only able to claim a WET credit for WET included in the purchase price of that wine if it makes a taxable dealing with the wine; reduce the WET producer rebate cap from $500 000 to $350 000; amend the timing of the application of the associated producers rule; and remove the earlier producer rebate rule; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to provide asset roll-over relief for mandatory transfers within a superannuation fund in the transition to a MySuper product. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum