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• Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Bill 1998

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Apr 1998 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Foreign Affairs portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Completion of Kakadu National Park (Koongarra Project Area Repeal) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Feb 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities 

  Summary

  Repeals the

  Koongarra Project Area Act 1981

  as part of the process to incorporate the Koongarra area into Kakadu National Park. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Legislation Amendment Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Jun 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  in relation to the: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) consideration of acquisitions in local markets (including creeping acquisitions); ACCC’S consideration of multiple markets when assessing mergers; and reform of the prohibition on anti-competitive mergers and acquisitions;

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  and

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  , in response to recommendations of the Senate Economics Legislation Committee, to: insert a statement of interpretative principles into the unconscionable conduct provisions; and provide that the statutory concept of unconscionable conduct is consistently applied to both consumers and businesses; and

  Trade Practices Amendment (Australian Consumer Law) Act (No. 2) 2010

  to make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to insert a regulation making power to enable regulations to be made to provide exemptions from the single pricing requirements in the Australian Consumer Law. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Mar 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: prohibit the private disclosure of pricing information to a competitor; prohibit disclosure of that or other information if the disclosure is made to substantially lessen competition; provide that the prohibitions only apply to goods and services prescribed by regulations; provide exceptions to the prohibitions; and extend existing authorisation and notification regimes to enable businesses to obtain immunity from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission from the prohibitions where a public net benefit results. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Payment Surcharges) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to establish a framework to ban surcharges imposed in respect of particular payment methods that exceed the cost of acceptance for those payment methods; and provide the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission with additional powers to gather information and issue infringement notices in enforcing the ban on excess surcharges. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Motor Vehicle Service and Repair Information Sharing Scheme) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Mar 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to establish a scheme that mandates that service and repair information provided to car dealership networks and manufacturer preferred repairs be made available for independent repairs and registered training organisations to purchase at a fair market price; and

  Copyright Act 1968

  to provide that the statutory licensing scheme for educational institutions does not apply to such information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Misuse of Market Power) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Dec 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: strengthen the prohibition on corporations with substantial market powers from engaging in conduct that has the purpose, effect or likely effect of substantially lessening competition in markets in which they directly or indirectly participate; remove provisions in relation to telecommunications-specific anti-competitive conduct and the competition notices and exemption order regime; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Industry Code Penalties) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Jul 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  in relation to contraventions of civil penalty provisions of industry codes (the franchising code) by: enabling regulations to be made prescribing pecuniary penalties; and requiring the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to issue infringement notices. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Country of Origin) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Sep 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to clarify the country of origin labelling requirements by amending the definition of substantial transformation as it applies to the safe harbour provisions and removing the 50 per cent production cost test. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum