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• Office of National Intelligence (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Jun 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Office of National Intelligence Bill 2018 to implement the recommendation of the 2017 Independent Intelligence Review to establish an Office of National Intelligence (ONI), the bill: repeals the

  Office of National Assessments Act 1977

  ; amends 18 Acts to make consequential amendments; amends the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to make amendments contingent on the

  National Security Legislation Amendment (Espionage and Foreign Interference) Act 2018

  ; and provides for transitional arrangements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Office of National Intelligence Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Jun 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Office of National Intelligence (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2018 to implement the recommendation of the 2017 Independent Intelligence Review to establish an Office of National Intelligence (ONI), the bill establishes the ONI as an independent statutory agency within the Prime Minister’s portfolio reporting directly to the Prime Minister, and subsuming the role, functions and staff of the Office of National Assessments (ONA). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Legislation Amendment Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment and Energy 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Act 1995

  ,

  Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989

  and

  Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Act 1995

  to: implement Australia’s commitment to phase-down import, export and production of hydrofluorocarbons from 1 January 2018, in advance of the global phase-down implemented under the Montreal Protocol, as amended by the Kigali Amendment; amend provisions in relation to the hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) phase-out and prohibit the use of new HCFCs from 1 January 2020 other than for permitted uses; implement Australia’s obligations under the Kyoto Protocol to regulate two newly listed synthetic greenhouse gases; amend provisions in relation to equipment bans and ensure that the provisions apply consistently to all entities regulated under the Act; and amend provisions in relation to licensing and reporting requirements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Petroleum Pools and Other Measures) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Sep 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

  and

  Petroleum Resource Rent Tax Assessment Act 1987

  to ensure the ongoing validity of apportionment agreements, where it becomes apparent that an agreement relates to an area which contains multiple petroleum pools, rather than a single discrete pool; and

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

  to: include a regulation making power to ensure there is a legal basis for the regulations to provide for the refund and remittal of environment plan (EP) levies; provide for the retrospective commencement of this regulation making power to ensure the validity of refunds of EP levies previously made to offshore petroleum titleholders; and clarify that regulations can provide for the remittal and refund of safety case levies. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment Bill 2016

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  Date

  11 Feb 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

  to validate past Joint Authority decisions to grant renewals, or extensions of the term of ‘prior usage rights’ petroleum titles, where the consent of the Minister for the Environment was not sought. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Omnibus Repeal Day (Autumn 2015) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Mar 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Amends: five Acts in the Agriculture portfolio to abolish the Australian Landcare Council, and make amendments consequential on seven Acts being repealed; two Acts in the Environment portfolio to abolish the Natural Heritage Trust Advisory Committee and the Biological Diversity Advisory Committee, and remove spent provisions; the

  Health and Other Services (Compensation) Act 1995

  to remove certain administrative requirements for compensation payers and claimants; the

  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Reserves and Committee Self-management) Act 1978

  to make amendments consequential on two Acts being repealed; the

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

  ,

  Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Student Assistance Act 1973

  to enable the release of information collected under the Acts in an aggregated form which does not disclose information about a particular person; the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to remove spent indexation provisions, and make consequential amendments; the

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to remove spent provisions relating to the Retirement Assistance for Farmers Scheme and the Retirement Assistance for Sugarcane Farmers Scheme; the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to remove spent savings, transitional and application provisions, and make technical amendments; three Acts in the Treasury portfolio to remove spent provisions; and the

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to remove spent provisions relating to the Retirement Assistance for Farmers Scheme and the Retirement Assistance for Sugarcane Farmers Scheme. Also repeals 14 Acts administered in three portfolios. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment (Miscellaneous Matters) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Feb 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry and Science 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Miscellaneous Matters) Bill 2015, the bill amends the

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Act 2003

  to: enable the National Offshore Petroleum Titles Administrator to collect an annual titles administration levy in relation to boundary-change petroleum exploration permits; and replace references to ‘OHS inspectors’ with ‘NOPSEMA inspectors’. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Miscellaneous Matters) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Feb 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry and Science 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment (Miscellaneous Matters) Bill 2015, the bill amends the

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

  to: automatically grant or extend the coverage of offshore petroleum titles over blocks moving from state or Northern Territory coastal waters into Commonwealth jurisdiction as a result of a change to the boundary; provide arrangements for the granting of renewals of Commonwealth titles over blocks remaining in Commonwealth waters, where part of that title has moved into state or Northern Territory coastal waters as a result of a change to the boundary; separate the requirements for conferral of petroleum and greenhouse gas functions on the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA); enable the recovery of costs for regulatory operations undertaken by NOPSEMA in waters landward of the territorial sea baseline; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment (Designated Coastal Waters) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2014, the bill makes consequential amendments to the

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Act 2003

  to confine the operation of the levy regime to the area constituted by the existing definition of designated coastal waters. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment (Designated Coastal Waters) Bill 2014, the bill amends the

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

  to: expand the definition of ‘designated coastal waters’ to include all waters of the sea landward of the Commonwealth offshore area; and permit registered multiple petroleum titleholders to take eligible voluntary actions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum