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• Biosecurity Amendment (Strengthening Penalties) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Feb 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Water and the Environment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Biosecurity Act 2015

  to increase the civil and criminal penalty amounts for contraventions of certain key requirements relating to the assessment and management of biosecurity risks of goods that are brought or imported into Australian territory, and the carrying out of biosecurity activities in accordance with an approved arrangement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Biosecurity Amendment (Traveller Declarations and Other Measures) Bill 2020

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  Date

  17 Jun 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Water and the Environment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Biosecurity Act 2015

  to: enable regulations to prescribe different penalty amounts for infringement notices issued for different kinds of alleged contraventions; clarify that the regulations may prescribe different periods of time to pay an infringement notice depending on the kind of goods or class of goods to which an alleged contravention relates; enable the Director of Biosecurity to determine goods or classes of goods that can attract a higher infringement notice amount and provide that the determination is not disallowable; and enable the regulations to incorporate references to the determination as in force from time to time. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Bankruptcy Amendment (Discharge from Bankruptcy) Bill 2023

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  Date

  14 Nov 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  to regularise and validate the administrative processes of the Australian Financial Security Authority and its predecessors in relation to determining when a statement of affairs is taken to have been filed for the purposes of a debtor’s petition or as required in relation to a sequestration order; and

  Bankruptcy Regulations 2021

  to align the dates that the Official Receiver is required to enter in the National Personal Insolvency Index with the amendments to the

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Bankruptcy Amendment (Debt Agreement Reform) Bill 2018

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  Date

  14 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  to reform Australia’s debt agreement system, including by: specifying persons authorised to administer debt agreements and related qualification and registration requirements; specifying arrangements relating to the content, length, variation, termination and voiding of debt agreements; introducing offences relating to the administration of debt agreements; specifying the functions and powers of the Inspector General; modifying requirements in relation to the payment of, and the application process for, unclaimed moneys; and making related technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Bankruptcy Amendment (Enterprise Incentives) Bill 2017

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  Date

  19 Oct 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  to: provide that, where a bankrupt becomes a bankrupt again, the income contribution obligations and contribution assessment period for the first bankruptcy will cease; provide that ceasing income contributions to a trustee in an earlier bankruptcy in the event of a second bankruptcy does not limit the ability of the trustee in the later bankruptcy to exercise certain powers; amend notification requirements to provide that a bankrupt or discharged bankrupt must notify the trustee within 10 business days of changes to their name, address and phone number during the ‘prescribed period’; clarify the period for which eligible discharged bankrupts must continue to make income contribution payments to the bankrupt estate; extend the requirement to make certain income contribution payments to persons who are eligible to make these payments, but have been automatically discharged after one year; ensure that a bankrupt or discharged bankrupt will ordinarily be liable for income contributions for at least three contribution assessment periods; provide that determinations regarding supervised account regimes apply post discharge and throughout the contribution assessment periods, and only cease when the bankrupt is no longer liable to pay a contribution; extend the obligations and duties on a bankrupt to keep and produce records of income, employment and financial transactions or dealings; provide for an automatic discharge after one year of bankruptcy and related transitional arrangements; and enable the extension of a period of bankruptcy on the basis of an objection by a trustee or official receiver. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Bankruptcy Legislation Amendment Bill 2010

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  Date

  28 Oct 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  in relation to: remuneration of registered trustees administering bankrupt estates; civil penalties; Bankruptcy Districts; creditor’s petitions; the stay period that follows the filing of a declaration of intent to file a debtor’s petition; and the debt, income and assets test thresholds for debt agreements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Bankruptcy (Estate Charges) Amendment Bill 2007

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  Date

  15 Feb 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Bankruptcy (Estate Charges) Act 1997

  to extend the application of the realisations charge and interest charge to money received by debt agreement administrators pursuant to debt agreements made under the

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Bankruptcy Legislation Amendment (Debt Agreements) Bill 2007

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  Date

  15 Feb 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  in relation to the operation of debt agreements under Part IX by providing for: the registration of administrators; proportional payments under an agreement to administrators and creditors; debtors’ proposals to be accepted by a majority in value of creditors; mechanisms to deal with defaulting debtors; and clarifying the operation of the Act in relation to: deregistered administrators; debts covered by an agreement; treatment of secured creditors; and investigative powers of the Inspector-General in Bankruptcy. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Bankruptcy Legislation Amendment (Superannuation Contributions) Bill 2006 [2007]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2006 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  and

  Payment Systems and Netting Act 1998

  to provide for the recovery of superannuation contributions made with the intention to defeat creditors; and

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  and

  Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

  to: provide for certain rural support grants to be exempt from the property available to pay the bankrupt’s creditors; and make minor technical amendments in relation to the operation of the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Bankruptcy Legislation Amendment (Fees and Charges) Bill 2006

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  Date

  16 Feb 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  and

  Bankruptcy (Estate Charges) Act 1997

  to facilitate implementation by the Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia of cost recovery arrangements by enabling the Minister to make legislative instruments to determine fees and charges;

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  to: remove possible impediments to electronic service delivery; and clarify and update certain provisions; and

  Bankruptcy (Estate Charges) Act 1997

  to provide for an annual payment by bankruptcy trustees of realisations charge and interest charge rather than a twice yearly payment. Also repeals the

  Bankruptcy (Registration Charges) Act 1997

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum