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• Lake Eyre Basin Intergovernmental Agreement Bill 2001

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Mar 2001 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment and Heritage portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Mar 2003 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  CONROY, Sen Stephen 

  Summary

  Penalises late payment of commercial debts by Commonwealth government agencies and large corporations to small business in relation to contracts for the supply of goods and services. Also contains a regulation-making power. 

  Bill

• Legislative Instruments (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Jun 2003 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Legislative Instruments Bill 2003, the bill: makes consequential amendments to 20 Acts (including the

  Acts Interpretation Act 1901

  ); applies the proposed

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  to certain rules of court; and repeals the

  Statutory Rules Publication Act 1903

  . Also contains a limited retrospective regulation-making power and transitional provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Legislative Instruments Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Jun 2003 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Legislative Instruments (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Bill 2003, the bill establishes a regime for the registration, tabling, scrutiny and sunsetting of legislative instruments. Deals with: drafting standards; consultation before making legislative instruments; establishment of the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments; Parliamentary scrutiny of legislative instruments; sunsetting of legislative instruments; instruments not dealt with before the Act’s commencing day; gazettal and registration requirements; effect on existing tabling and disallowance requirements; delegation of certain Ministerial powers; review of the operation of the Act and sunsetting provisions; existing references to the Legislative Instruments Act. Also contains a regulation-making power. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Local Community Input into Renewable Energy Developments Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Dec 2003 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

   

  Bill

• Law and Justice Legislation Amendment Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Mar 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends 22 Acts to: correct minor drafting errors; clarify the operation of certain provisions; update references to organisations and other Acts; and update provisions to reflect current practices. Also contains application provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Life Insurance Supervisory Levy Imposition Amendment Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Aug 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of seven bills to implement changes to the financial sector levy setting framework, the bill amends the

  Life Insurance Supervisory Levy Imposition Act 1998

  to: separate the life insurance supervisory levy into a restricted and an unrestricted component; increase the statutory upper limit for the restricted levy component set for the 2005-06 financial year; and alter the calculation of the indexation factor used to establish the statutory upper limits applying in later financial years. Also contains an application provision. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Legislative Instruments (Technical Amendment) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Nov 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Arising from the enactment of the

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  , the bill amends the

  Acts Interpretation Act 1901

  to clarify the effect of the expression ‘by legislative instrument’. 

  Bill

• Life Insurance Supervisory Levy Imposition Amendment Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Dec 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of seven bills to implement changes to the financial sector levy setting framework, the bill amends the

  Life Insurance Supervisory Levy Imposition Act 1998

  to: separate the life insurance supervisory levy into a restricted and an unrestricted component; increase the statutory upper limit for the restricted levy component set for the 2005-06 financial year; and alter the calculation of the indexation factor used to establish the statutory upper limits applying in later financial years. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Law and Justice Legislation Amendment (Serious Drug Offences and Other Measures) Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 May 2005 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Justice and Customs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: insert new serious drug offences; and give effect to an obligation under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Right of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict by inserting new offences for the recruitment or use of children in armed conflict;

  Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

  in relation to property restraining and forfeiture orders over a bankrupt’s property;

  Australian Federal Police Act 1979

  to: clarify the functions of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in relation to assistance to and cooperations with Australian and foreign law enforcement, intelligence, security and government regulatory agencies, and peacekeeping activities in other countries; and enable the AFP to disclose a person’s personal information with that person’s consent;

  Mutual Assistance in Business Regulation Act 1992

  in relation to requests from foreign regulators for information, documents or evidence;

  Financial Transaction Reports Act 1988

  in relation to identification references for certain account signatories;

  Customs Act 1901

  to make a technical amendment in relation to a power to detain people on bail who attempt to leave Australia in breach of bail conditions;

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  to: exempt certain AUSTRAC documents from the operation of the Act; and make minor technical corrections. Also makes consequential amendments in relation to serious drug offences to 5 Acts; and repeals the

  Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1950

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum