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• Tax Laws Amendment (Investment Manager Regime) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to prescribe the tax treatment of returns, gains, losses and deductions on certain investments of widely held foreign funds;

  Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

  to clarify the tax treatment of returns, gains, losses and deductions on certain investments of widely held foreign funds for the 2010-11 and earlier income years where the fund has not lodged a tax return or had an assessment made of their income tax liability; and proposed

  Tax Laws Amendment (Cross-Border Transfer Pricing) Act (No. 1) 2012

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax Laws Amendment (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of two bills in relation to the managed investment trust (MIT) withholding tax, the bill amends the

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to make consequential amendments to give effect to the increase in the MIT final withholding tax rate imposed by the proposed

  Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Amendment Act 2012

  . 

  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

• Statute Stocktake (Appropriations) Bill (No. 1) 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Deregulation 

  Summary

  The bill: amends two Acts and repeals three Acts to abolish redundant special appropriations; repeals 93 appropriation Acts which are spent, exhausted or lapsed; and repeals 35 redundant supply Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2012

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  Date

  31 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to: require that the rules of all registered organisations deal with disclosure of remuneration, pecuniary and financial interests; increase civil penalties; strengthen the investigative powers of Fair Work Australia; and require education and training to be provided to officials of registered organisations about their governance and accounting obligations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Legislation Amendment (Fair Incentives to Work) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: remove the ‘grandfathering’ transitional arrangement from the parenting payment from 1 January 2013; reduce the length of the liquid assets waiting period by doubling the maximum reserve threshold for liquid assets to $5000 for singles without dependants or $10 000 for others from 1 July 2013; and clarify the definition of ‘termination payment’ for the purposes of the income maintenance period to ensure it includes any payments connected with the termination of a person’s employment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Services Amendment (Improved Access to Television Services) Bill 2012

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  Date

  30 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  in relation to the provision of captioning services by commercial, national and subscription television broadcasters by: introducing and increasing captioning targets; requiring the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to develop a captioning standard to determine the quality of captioning services; requiring broadcasters to transmit emergency warnings in the form of text and speech, and captioned where possible; introducing compliance reporting and record keeping requirements; providing for a statutory review by the ACMA; and making compliance with the captioning requirements a licensing condition. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

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

  Track (What's this?)

  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

• Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Deregulation 

  Summary

  Amends: nine Acts to provide a mechanism (a ‘recoverable payment’) to provide authority for inadvertent overpayments of certain benefits and for their recovery;

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to enable the Commissioner of Taxation to make a ‘recoverable advance’ of an amount to which the recipient may become entitled to in future because the likely cost of not making these payments would exceed the total of the advance; seven Acts to authorise the Commonwealth to make ‘recoverable death payments’ to recipients until ComSuper or the relevant secretary is notified of the recipient’s death; eight Acts to require that where recoverable payments, advances or death payments are made, the relevant secretary or chief executive ensures that a report is published; 11 Acts to align administrative processes for making certain payments with the relevant legislation;

  ComSuper Act 2011

  to enable the Chief Executive Officer to delegate certain functions and powers;

  National Residue Survey Administration Act 1992

  to clarify that an expenditure program may be approved by the minister after payments are required to be made; and

  Superannuation Act 1976

  to clarify that the Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation’s (CSC) ability to recover amounts of benefit paid applies only to amounts paid by CSC. Also validates certain benefits under the

  Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973

  to regularise the treatment of certain benefit recipients. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Registration Fees) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Climate Change and Energy Efficiency 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards Bill 2012, the bill imposes registration fees on businesses registering regulated products as required by the Equipment Energy Efficiency Program (E3 Program). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum