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• Wheat Export Marketing Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Implements the recommendations of the Productivity Commission’s report into wheat export marketing arrangements by amending the

  Wheat Export Marketing Act 2008

  to transition the wheat export industry to full deregulation by: abolishing the Wheat Export Accreditation Scheme and the wheat export charge on 10 December 2012; winding up Wheat Export Australia on 31 December 2012; and removing the access test requirements for grain port terminal operators on 30 September 2014. Also makes consequential amendments to the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  and repeals the

  Wheat Export Marketing Act 2008

  on 1 October 2014. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Judges and Governors-General Legislation Amendment (Family Law) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Deregulation 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Judges’ Pensions Act 1968

  and

  Governor-General Act 1974

  to enable a former spouse of a judge or of a governor-general to receive his or her share of a superannuation benefit as a separate benefit at the time of a family law split. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Courts Legislation Amendment (Judicial Complaints) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Judicial Misbehaviour and Incapacity (Parliamentary Commissions) Bill 2012, the bill amends the:

  Family Law Act 1975

  ,

  Federal Court of Australia Act 1976

  and

  Federal Magistrates Act 1999

  to establish a framework to enable the Chief Justices of the Federal Court and the Family Court and the Chief Federal Magistrate to manage complaints that are referred to them; and

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  to exclude documents created through the complaints handling scheme from the operation of the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Law Amendment (Validation of Certain Orders and Other Measures) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  The bill: confers rights and liabilities on all persons who had sought or were granted orders by the Family Court of Australia or the Federal Magistrates Court of Australia in the de facto financial causes jurisdiction and the relevant appellate jurisdiction of the Family Court of Australia between the date the jurisdiction was conferred and when certain proclamations were made; and amends the

  Family Law Act 1975

  to provide that regulations may be made to provide a date from which the jurisdiction of the Family Court of Australia must not be exercised in certain circumstances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Judicial Misbehaviour and Incapacity (Parliamentary Commissions) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Courts Legislation Amendment (Judicial Complaints) Bill 2012, the bill enables parliamentary commissions to be established following a resolution by each House of the Parliament to investigate specified allegations of misbehaviour or incapacity of a specified Commonwealth judicial officer (including a Justice of the High Court of Australia). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999

  to expand the application of the Act to men and all employers and employees in the workplace by: amending the short title of the Act to

  Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012

  ; reflecting the change in the name of the administering agency and its director; expanding the advice and education functions of the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA); requiring certain employers to prepare public reports relating to gender equality indicators; providing for WGEA to monitor employer compliance; and making consequential amendments; and

  Equal Employment Opportunity (Commonwealth Authorities) Act 1987

  to make consequential amendments. Also amends the

  Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999

  to make amendments consequential on the commencement of the

  Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Public Service Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Public Service Act 1999

  to: clarify the roles and responsibilities of secretaries of departments and revise their employment arrangements; create the Secretaries Board to replace the Management Advisory Committee; amend the role and responsibilities of the Senior Executive Service; clarify the role and functions of the Australian Public Service (APS) Commissioner; appoint Special Commissioners to assist the commissioner in undertaking certain reviews; revise the APS Values and provide for a set of APS Employment Principles; and make technical amendments in relation to: code of conduct; whistleblower reports; review of actions; temporary APS employees; machinery of government changes; confidentiality of information; immunity from suit; and legislative instruments. Also makes consequential amendments to nine other Acts and repeals the

  Public Employment (Consequential and Transitional) Amendment Act 1999

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment (2012 Measures No. 1) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999

  to provide: that a supply made by a health care provider to an insurer, statutory compensation scheme operator, compulsory third party scheme operator or a government entity is treated as GST-free supply; and that non-commercial activities of government related entites are not subject to GST;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to pause the indexation of the superannuation concessional contributions cap during the 2013-14 financial year;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Superannuation (Government Co-contribution for Low Income Earners) Act 2003

  ,

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  and

  Taxation (Interest on Overpayments and Early Payments) Act 1983

  to allow eligible individuals the option to have excess concessional contributions taken out of their superannuation fund and assessed at their marginal tax rates;

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to: permit the Australian Taxation Office to disclose individual’s superannuation information to superannuation entities and their administrators for certain purposes; and provide the Commisioner of Taxation with a discretion to delay refunding an amount to a taxpayer pending integrity checks of their claim; and

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to require employers to report, on payslips, any information prescribed in the regulations about superannuation contributions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Corporations Legislation Amendment (Audit Enhancement) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Feb 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: enable directors of a listed company or listed registered scheme to extend the auditor rotation period for up to two years in certain circumstances; and require auditors who audit 10 or more certain types of entities to publish a transparency report; and

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  to: revise the functions of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) to require the FRC to provide the minister and professional accounting bodies with strategic policy advice and reports in relation to the quality of audits conducted by Australian auditors; enable the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to publish an audit deficiency report in relation to specified audit failures by an Australian auditor identified by ASIC; and enable ASIC to communicate certain information obtained during an audit directly with an audited body. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Indirect Tax Laws Amendment (Assessment) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Feb 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  , proposed

  Minerals Resource Rent Tax (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2012

  and eight other Acts to align the self actuating system for the goods and services tax, the luxury car tax, the wine equalisation tax and fuel tax credits with the self assessment system for income tax;

  A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999

  and

  Fuel Tax Act 2006

  to allow the Commissioner of Taxation to make a determination allowing a taxpayer to account for errors in relation to net amounts or net fuel amounts for prior tax and fuel tax return periods, providing the error is corrected during the relevant period of review;

  A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999

  ,

  A New Tax System (Luxury Car Tax) Act 1999

  and

  A New Tax System (Wine Equalisation Tax) Act 1999

  to clarify the definition of ‘net amount’; and

  A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999

  ,

  Fuel Tax Act 2006

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum