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• Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Amendment (Registration Fees) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Mar 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards (Registration Fees) Bill 2013, the bill amends the

  Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005

  to enable fees to be collected and administered by the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards scheme Regulator. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Amendment (Scheme Enhancements) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005

  to: allow the minister to determine by legislative instrument details of the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Scheme, particularly in relation to registration of products; introduce civil penalties to mirror existing and amended criminal offences; make administrative changes, including removal of the requirement for gazettal of registration decisions and providing for further five-year reviews of the operation of the scheme; and remove voluntary registration of products. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Amendment Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Jun 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Environment Protection, Heritage and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005

  to provide that a Water Efficiency Labelling Scheme (WELS) standard may require a product to comply with certain requirements relating to plumbing before the product can be registered as a WELS product. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Amendment Bill 2010 [2011]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Sep 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005

  to provide that a Water Efficiency Labelling Scheme (WELS) standard may require a product to comply with certain requirements relating to plumbing before the product can be registered as a WELS product. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jun 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Environment and Heritage 

  Summary

  Provides for the establishment and operation of a scheme to apply national water efficiency labelling and minimum performance standards to certain water-use products. Also contains a regulation-making power. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Bill 2005

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Dec 2004 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment and Heritage 

  Summary

  Provides for the establishment and operation of a scheme to apply national water efficiency labelling and minimum performance standards to certain water-use products. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Water Legislation Amendment (Inspector-General of Water Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 May 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Resources, Water and Northern Australia 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Water Act 2007

  to: establish the role of an independent Inspector-General of Water Compliance to monitor, and provide independent oversight of, water compliance; provide for the Inspector-General's powers and functions; introduce new offence and civil penalty provisions for unlawful conduct relating to the taking of water and new civil penalties for conduct relating to trading of water rights; and make minor amendments. Also makes consequential amendments to the

  Basin Plan 2012

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Water Legislation Amendment (Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Sep 2016 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the Basin Plan 2012 to provide for a second notification of sustainable diversion limit adjustment measures by 30 June 2017 to enable basin jurisdictions to develop and notify new projects to augment the first package of measures notified on 5 May 2016 by the Basin Officials Committee to the Murray-Darling Basin Authority. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• We All Come Together For Country Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Mar 2025 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  COX, Sen Dorinda 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to establish a class of controlled action relating to emissions which damage the surfaces of national and world heritage monuments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill 2025

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Feb 2025 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  SCAMPS, Sophie, MP 

  Summary

  The bill: requires public bodies to act in pursuit of the economic, social, environmental and cultural wellbeing of current and future generations of Australians; and establishes an independent statutory Commissioner for Future Generations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum