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• Corporations Amendment (Corporate Insolvency Reforms) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Nov 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: establish a debt restructuring process for eligible small companies and provide temporary relief for eligible companies seeking to enter the process; and expand the situations where documents relating to the external administration of a company may be given electronically and allow documents relating to the external administration of a company to be signed electronically; and

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  and

  Corporations Act 2001

  to establish a simplified liquidation process for the purpose of winding up the affairs and distributing the property of an eligible company in a creditors' voluntary winding up, as well as the requirements for entering and exiting the process. Also makes consequential amendments to seven Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment (High Risk Terrorist Offenders) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Sep 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to provide for a State or Territory Supreme Court to make an extended supervision order (ESO) as an alternative to a continuing detention order, which may impose conditions on high risk terrorist offenders;

  National Security Information (Criminal and Civil Proceedings) Act 2004

  to provide for the availability of court-only evidence in ESO proceedings;

  Crimes Act 1914

  ,

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  and

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  to extend the application of the existing control order monitoring warrant provisions to the monitoring of ESOs;

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

  and

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977

  to make consequential amendments; and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (International Production Orders) Act 2020

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes Legislation Amendment (Economic Disruption) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Sep 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to update money laundering offences;

  Crimes Act 1914

  to clarify that certain obligations imposed on investigating officials do not apply to undercover operatives;

  Proceeds of Crimes Act 2002

  to: ensure that buy-back orders cannot be used by criminal suspects and their associates to buy back property forfeited to the Commonwealth or to delay court proceedings; clarify that courts may make orders confiscating the value of a debt, loss or liability that has been avoided, deferred or reduced through criminal offending; clarify that courts with proceeds jurisdiction are able to make orders in respect of property located overseas; increase penalties for non-compliance with information-gathering powers, and clarify and expand the circumstances in which information gathered can be disclosed and used; enable the minister to make grants from the Confiscated Assets Account (CAA) to the States and Territories for crime prevention and certain other measures; and provide that money (other than a penalty) paid to the Commonwealth under a foreign deferred prosecution agreement that represents benefits or property derived from unlawful criminal activity must be credited to the CAA; and

  COAG Reform Fund Act 2008

  and

  Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

  to expand the Official Trustee in Bankruptcy's powers in relation to property, information gathering and cost recovery. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Civil Aviation (Unmanned Aircraft Levy) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Civil Aviation Amendment (Unmanned Aircraft Levy Collection and Payment) Bill 2020, the bill imposes a levy for future cost recovery arrangements for regulatory services for remotely piloted aircraft operators. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Civil Aviation Amendment (Unmanned Aircraft Levy Collection and Payment) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Civil Aviation (Unmanned Aircraft Levy) Bill 2020, the bill amends the

  Civil Aviation Act 1988

  to establish arrangements for the Civil Aviation Safety Authority to collect the levy imposed on remotely piloted aircraft operators. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Jobkeeper Payments) Amendment Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Coronavirus Economic Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020

  to enable the extension of the jobkeeper scheme to 28 March 2021 by extending the current time limit on payment rules authorised by the Act;

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to extend the circumstances in which protected information can be disclosed;

  Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus (Measures No. 2) Act 2020

  and

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: support the extended operation of the jobkeeper scheme; and make consequential amendments; and

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to ensure provisions regarding agreements in relation to the taking of annual leave are repealed on 28 September 2020, as originally intended. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Consumer Law—Country of Origin Representations) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Jun 2020 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Science, Energy and Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to enable regulations to prescribe processes which will be deemed to satisfy the definition of 'substantially transformed' for the purposes of the country of origin provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Charges and Levies Legislation Amendment (Sheep and Lamb) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Jun 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Water and the Environment 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Excise Levies Legislation Amendment (Sheep and Lamb) Bill 2020, the bill amends the

  National Residue Survey (Customs) Levy Act 1998

  and

  Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999

  to align the definition of 'lamb' for the purposes of imposing certain levies and charges that are duties of customs with the definition used for export and industry purposes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Apr 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus (Measures No. 2) Bill 2020, Appropriation Bill (No. 5) 2019-2020 and Appropriation Bill (No. 6) 2019-2020 to respond to the economic impacts of the coronavirus, the bill establishes a framework for the Treasurer to make rules which provide for the Commissioner of Taxation to make coronavirus economic response payments to eligible entities for the period from 1 March to 31 December 2020. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus (Measures No. 2) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Apr 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Bill 2020, Appropriation Bill (No. 5) 2019-2020 and Appropriation Bill (No. 6) 2019-2020 to respond to the economic impacts of the coronavirus, the bill amends: the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to temporarily enable employers to issue JobKeeper enabling directions; eight Acts to makes amendments consequential on the

  Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020

  ; the

  Guarantee of Lending to Small and Medium Enterprises (Coronavirus Economic Response Package) Act 2020

  to ensure that certain categories of smaller non-authorised deposit-taking institutions will fall within the definition of ‘financial institution’; the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  to: modify how child care subsidy (CCS) entitlements are reviewed when an individual, who is a member of a couple for some but not all of the CCS fortnights in an income year, meets the CCS reconciliation conditions; and provide that payments of Additional Child Care Subsidy and funding agreements for certain grant programs occur under the existing standing appropriation; and the

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to allow, until 30 June 2023, the disclosure of de-identified protected information to the Treasury for the purposes of policy development and analysis in relation to the coronavirus. Also: provides a temporary mechanism for ministers to change arrangements for meeting information and documentary requirements under Commonwealth legislation; and allows the Veterans’ Minister to: increase, by legislative instrument, the amount paid to a person receiving a payment under the veterans’ law by the amount of the coronavirus supplement, and vary the qualifications and eligibility for payments by legislative instrument. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum