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• Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Dec 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to: provide, for the purposes of determining the private health insurance rebate, a single rebate adjustment factor which will apply to premiums on 1 April each year from 2014; and make a technical amendment. Also repeals the

  Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Base Premium) Act 2013

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax Bonus for Working Australians Repeal Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Dec 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  The bill: repeals the

  Tax Bonus for Working Australians Act (No. 2) 2009

  to provide that no further tax bonus payments ($900 stimulus cheques) are made; and makes consequential amendments to the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2013 Measures No. 1) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Dec 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Therapeutic Goods Act 1989

  to: enable the minister to specify products that are taken not to be therapeutic goods; enable the secretary to remove products that are not therapeutic goods from the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods; clarify the secretary’s powers to approve product information for medicines accepted for registration in the register; and make amendments in relation to: compliance with advertising requirements; obtaining information and documents; use of restricted and prohibited representations in advertisements; conditions of registration or listing in the register; presentation of registered or listed goods; consent to the import, supply or export of goods; review of decisions; a package and its contents to constitute a kit; criminal offences and civil penalties for false or misleading statements in relation to variation requests; minimum notice period for cancellation of registration or listing in the register; secretary’s discretion to publish certain information on the department’s website; clarification of the merits review process; prescribing of alternative periods of time in relation to the secretary’s selection of an application for auditing; failure to comply with requirements to provide information; and revocation of requested cancellation of devices, licences or certificates. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Dec 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans’ Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to clarify arrangements for the payment of travel expenses for treatment;

  Defence Service Homes Act 1918

  to extend eligibility for benefits;

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to: align maintenance income and attendant allowance provisions with those in the

  Social Security Act 1991

  ; provide for provision of special assistance by inclusion in a legislative instrument; clarify administrative arrangements for certain travel; and clarify that debt recovery provisions apply to all provisions of the Act, the regulations and any legislative instrument made under the Act;

  War Precautions Act Repeal Act 1920

  to: amend the short title to the

  Protection of Word ‘Anzac’ Act 1920

  ; amend the long title of the Act; and remove redundant provisions; and

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2013-2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Appropriates additional money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for expenditure in relation to the parliamentary departments, in addition to the appropriations provided for by the

  Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2013-2014

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2013-2014

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  Date

  13 Feb 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Appropriates additional money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the ordinary annual services of the government, in addition to the appropriations provided for by the

  Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2013-2014

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2013-2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Appropriates additional money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for certain expenditure, in addition to the appropriations provided for by the

  Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2013-2014

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment (Dairy Produce) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999

  to increase the maximum rates of the Australian Animal Health Council levies on milk fat and milk protein. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Feb 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Excise Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2014, the bill amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to: increase the rate of excise equivalent customs duty on tobacco through a series of four staged increases of 12.5 per cent, commencing on 1 December 2013; and index the rates of excise equivalent customs duty on tobacco to average weekly ordinary time earnings instead of the consumer price index. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Excise Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Feb 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2014, the bill amends the

  Excise Tariff Act 1921

  to: increase the rate of excise duty on tobacco through a series of four staged increases of 12.5 per cent, commencing on 1 December 2013; index the rates of excise duty on tobacco to average weekly ordinary time earnings instead of the consumer price index; and make consequential amendments contingent upon the commencement of the proposed

  Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Act 2014

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum