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• Federal Courts Legislation Amendment (Judicial Immunity) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Nov 2023 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2021

  to provide a judge of Division 2 of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (FCFCOA) with the same protection and immunity as a judge of Division 1 of the FCFCOA; and

  Family Law Act 1975

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Identity Verification Services (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Sep 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Identity Verification Services Bill 2023, the bill amends the

  Australian Passports Act 2005

  to enable automated disclosures of personal information to a specified person via the Document Verification Service or the Face Verification Service. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Identity Verification Services Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Sep 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Identity Verification Services (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2023, the bill provides a framework to support the operation of identity verification services. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Royal Commissions Amendment (Private Sessions) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Sep 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Royal Commissions Act 1902

  to enable the authorisation of an Assistant Commissioner to hold private sessions for royal commissions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Statutory Declarations Amendment Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Sep 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Statutory Declarations Act 1959

  to: establish a framework for the execution of Commonwealth statutory declarations which includes traditional paper-based, electronic and digitally verified execution; provide for a review of the operation of the Act; and make minor and technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Counter-Terrorism and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2023

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  Date

  10 Aug 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Crimes Act 1914

  to: extend the sunset date for certain police powers in relation to terrorism; impose certain requirements on the minister and the Australian Federal Police Commissioner in relation to prescribed security zones; and require a police officer exercising certain powers to inform a person of their right to make a complaint; and

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: extend the sunset date for the control order and preventative detention order (PDO) regimes; limit the power to issues control orders to the Federal Court of Australia; align control order conditions with extended supervision conditions; enable the variation of a control order by consent; limit the classes of persons who may be appointed as an issuing authority for PDOs to superior court judges; provide for annual report requirements; and extend the operation of provisions in relation to unauthorised disclosure of information by Commonwealth officers. Also makes consequential amendments to 3 Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Aug 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  in relation to the communication of foreign intelligence information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes Legislation Amendment (Combatting Foreign Bribery) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Jun 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: extend the foreign bribery offence to include the bribery of candidates for public office and bribery conducted to obtain a personal advantage; remove the requirement that a benefit or business advantage be ‘not legitimately due’ and replace it with the concept of ‘improperly influencing’ a foreign public official; remove the requirement that the foreign public official be influenced in the exercise of their official duties; clarify that the foreign bribery offence does not require the prosecution to prove that the accused had a specific business, or business or personal advantage, in mind, and that the business, or business or personal advantage, can be obtained for someone else; and create an offence of failure of a body corporate to prevent foreign bribery by an associate; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to preserve the existing rule which prohibits a person from claiming as a deduction for a loss or outgoing a bribe to a foreign public official. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment (Prohibited Hate Symbols and Other Measures) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Jun 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Crimes Act 1914

  and

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: establish criminal offences for the public display of prohibited Nazi and Islamic State symbols and the trading of goods that bear a prohibited Nazi or Islamic State symbol; establish criminal offences for using a carriage service for violent extremist material and possessing or controlling violent extremist material obtained or accessed using a carriage service;

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: expand the offence of advocating terrorism to include instructing on the doing of a terrorist act and praising the doing of a terrorist act in specified circumstances; and increase the maximum penalty for the offence of advocating terrorism from 5 to 7 years imprisonment; and

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  and Legislation (Exemptions and Other Matters) Regulation 2015 to remove the sunsetting requirement for instruments which list terrorist organisations and bolster safeguards. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Statute Law Amendment (Prescribed Forms and Other Updates) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Jun 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends: 33 Acts to replace provisions that require forms to be prescribed by regulations and reflect modern drafting practices, such as providing for the forms to be approved by a specified person or body, by notifiable instrument, or enabling regulations to directly mandate the requirements themselves rather than requiring particular forms; the

  Family Law Act 1975

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to update language relating to persons with disability; 11 Acts to update references to Northern Territory legislation; 33 Acts to correct technical errors; and 12 Acts to remove spent and obsolete provisions. Also repeals 4 Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum