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• Passenger Movement Charge Amendment (Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty Consequential Amendments Bill 2019 to partially implement the Treaty Between Australia and the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste Establishing Their Maritime Boundaries in the Timor Sea (New York, 6 March 2018), the bill makes consequential amendments to the

  Passenger Movement Charge Act 1978

  to remove references to the Joint Petroleum Development Area. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (Craft Beer) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to allow for beer in containers between eight and 48 litres designed to be connected to pressurised gas or pump delivery systems to be subject to a reduced excise-equivalent customs duty rate. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Sep 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to: establish frameworks for voluntary and mandatory industry assistance to law enforcement and intelligence agencies in relation to encryption technologies via the issuing of technical assistance requests, technical assistance notices and technical capability notices; and make amendments contingent on the commencement of the proposed

  Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2018

  ;

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977

  to provide that certain decisions under the new arrangements for industry assistance are not subject to judicial review;

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to ensure providers are not criminally responsible for particular telecommunications and computer offences for any acts or things done consistent with a technical assistance request, technical assistance notice or technical capability notice;

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

  and four other Acts to: provide an additional power for Commonwealth, state and territory law enforcement agencies investigating certain federal offences to obtain covert computer access warrants under the

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  ; and provide additional powers for law enforcement agencies in relation to the use of existing computer access powers;

  International Criminal Court Act 2002

  and two other Acts to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Crimes Legislation Amendment (International Crime Cooperation and Other Measures) Act 2018

  ;

  Crimes Act 1914

  to amend the search warrant framework to: allow law enforcement agencies to collect evidence from electronic devices under warrant remotely; increase penalties for not complying with orders from a judicial officer requiring assistance in accessing electronic devices where a warrant is in force; and increase the period during which an electronic device found while executing a warrant can be moved to another place for analysis from 14 days to 30 days;

  Customs Act 1901

  to: provide the Australian Border Force with a new power to request a search warrant to be issued in respect of a person for the purposes of seizing a computer or data storage device; increase penalties for not complying with orders from a judicial officer requiring assistance in accessing electronic devices where a warrant is in force; and increase the timeframe for the examination of electronic devices moved under a warrant from 72 hours to 30 days; and

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

  to: provide that a person or body is not subject to civil liability where they voluntarily provide assistance to ASIO, or give information or produce a document to ASIO unsolicited, in certain circumstances; and enable ASIO to require a person with knowledge of a computer or a computer system to provide assistance that is reasonable and necessary to gain access to data on a device that is subject to an ASIO warrant. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aviation Transport Security Amendment Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Aviation Transport Security Act 2004

  to enable the secretary to give an aviation industry participant a transport security program that sets out the security requirements they must meet. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Collecting Tobacco Duties at the Border) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to require tobacco importers to pay import duty on tobacco products upon importation into Australia from 1 July 2019, thereby removing the option to enter imported tobacco products into a licensed warehouse without the payment of import duties. Also includes transitional arrangements for the treatment of tobacco products that are still in warehouses on 1 July 2019. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Product Specific Rule Modernisation) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to: streamline the way in which product specific rules of origin of the Singapore-Australia Free Trade Agreement, the Agreement Establishing the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area, the Japan-Australia Economic Partnership Agreement and the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement are given effect domestically; and align the Act with certain free trade agreement provisions which have not yet been given force in domestic legislation. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Modern Slavery Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Jun 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Establishes a Modern Slavery Reporting Requirement to require certain large businesses and other entities in Australia to make annual public reports (Modern Slavery Statements) on their actions to address modern slavery risks in their operations and supply chains. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Unexplained Wealth Legislation Amendment Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Jun 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Gives effect to the National Cooperative Scheme on Unexplained Wealth by amending the:

  Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

  to: extend the scope of Commonwealth unexplained wealth restraining orders and unexplained wealth orders to territory and state offences; enable state and territory law enforcement entities to apply for production orders and issue notices to financial institutions; ensure the continued operation of state and territory confiscation regimes; provide for the equitable sharing of recovered proceeds between Commonwealth, state, territory and foreign law enforcement entities; and provide for a review after the fourth anniversary of the commencement of the national scheme;

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to facilitate information-sharing in relation to unexplained wealth investigations and proceedings between Commonwealth, territory and state law enforcement agencies; and Proceeds of Crime Regulations 2002 to clarify that the definition of ‘unexplained wealth legislation’ extends to particular provisions of the

  Criminal Assets Recovery Act 1990

  (NSW) and the

  Criminal Property Forfeiture Act

  (NT). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: provide that, when an unlawful non-citizen is in the process of being removed to another country and the removal is aborted, or is completed but the person is not permitted entry into the receiving country, and as a direct result the person is returned to Australia, then that person has a lawful basis to return to Australia without a visa; provide that, when such a person does return to Australia without a visa, the person will be taken to have been continuously in the migration zone for the purposes of certain sections of the Act which bar the person from making a valid application for certain visas; and allow the department to use an online account to provide clients with certain legally required communications;

  Customs Act 1901

  to: allow the department to make a recoverable payment to a person who is entitled to it; and make technical amendments; and

  Passenger Movement Charge Collection Act 1978

  to insert a new head of power so that regulations can prescribe the charging and recovery of fees for, and in relation to, the payment of passenger movement charge or an amount equal to the charge. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Measures) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Amendment Bill 2013, the bill amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to: remove, in certain circumstances, the minister’s mandatory consideration of the lesser duty rule; align the retrospective duties provisions of the anti-dumping system with the relevant World Trade Organization agreements; clarify that the minister is the decision maker for certain findings; and provide for a circumvention activity to address sales at a loss and other similar practices. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum