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• Income Tax Rates Amendment (Sovereign Entities) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Sep 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Treasury Laws Amendment (Making Sure Foreign Investors Pay Their Fair Share of Tax in Australia and Other Measures) Bill 2018 and Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Amendment Bill 2018, the bill amends the

  Income Tax Rates Act 1986

  to specify that sovereign entities are liable to income tax on taxable income at a rate of 30 per cent. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Productivity Commission Response Part 1 and Other Measures) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Jobs and Innovation 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Copyright Act 1968

  and

  Trade Marks Act 1995

  to clarify the circumstances in which the parallel importation of trade marked goods does not infringe a registered trade mark; the

  Plant Breeder’s Rights Act 1994

  to allow an application for an essentially derived variety (EDV) declaration to be made in instances where the plant variety the subject of the EDV application is not a registered Plant Breeder’s Right or undergoing application for Plant Breeder’s Right; the

  Trade Marks Act 1995

  to reduce from five to three years the period that must elapse before certain actions of non-use actions of trade mark can be taken; the

  Patents Act 1990

  to remove a requirement for patentees to provide the secretary of the department with certain data relating to pharmaceutical patents with an extended term; and six Acts to: streamline and align intellectual property (IP) processes in relation to the administration of the Australian IP system; and make minor amendments. Also repeals the

  Patents Amendment (Patent Cooperation Treaty) Act 1979

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Interactive Gambling Amendment (Lottery Betting) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Interactive Gambling Act 2001

  to prohibit betting on the outcome, or a contingency that may or may not happen in the course of the conduct, of Australian and overseas lottery draws (including a keno draw). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Interstate Road Transport Legislation (Repeal) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities 

  Summary

  Facilitates the closure of the Federal Interstate Registration Scheme (FIRS) by: amending the

  Interstate Road Transport Act 1985

  to close FIRS to new entrants and re-registration by existing operators from 1 July 2018; making consequential amendments to the

  COAG Reform Fund Act 2008

  ; repealing the

  Interstate Road Transport Act 1985

  and

  Interstate Road Transport Charge Act 1985

  on 1 July 2019; and providing for transitional arrangements for a 12-month period. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Intelligence Services Amendment (Establishment of the Australian Signals Directorate) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Intelligence Services Act 2001

  to: establish the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) as an independent statutory agency within the Defence portfolio reporting directly to the Minister for Defence; amend ASD’s functions to include providing material, advice and other assistance to prescribed persons or bodies, and preventing and disrupting cybercrime; require the Director-General of ASD to brief the Leader of the Opposition about matters relating to ASD; and give the Director-General powers to employ persons as employees of ASD; and 18 Acts to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Imported Food Control Amendment (Country of Origin) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Oct 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Imported Food Control Act 1992

  to incorporate the Country of Origin Food Labelling Information Standard 2016 by reference. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Investigation and Prosecution Measures Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Sep 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  and

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  to make amendments consequential on the restructure of the Independent Commission Against Corruption of New South Wales; and

  Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983

  to extend the functions, powers and duties of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions to the laws of Norfolk Island. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• International Monetary Agreements Amendment (New Arrangements to Borrow) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Aug 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  International Monetary Agreements Act 1947

  to provide a standing appropriation and authority to borrow for payments to meet drawings made by the International Monetary Fund under the decision to renew the New Arrangements to Borrow. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Imported Food Control Amendment Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Jun 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Imported Food Control Act 1992

  to: require a food safety management certificate from importers of certain foods where at-border testing alone is insufficient to provide assurance of food safety; enable food to be held at the border where there is uncertainty about the safety of a particular food and where the scientific approach to verify its safety is not established; provide additional powers to monitor and manage new and emerging risks; recognise a foreign country’s food safety regulatory system where it is equivalent to Australia’s food safety system; establish differentiated enforcement provisions to enable a graduated approach to non-compliance; require importers of food to keep records to enable traceability of food; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Industrial Chemicals (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Jun 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Part of a package of six bills to establish a new national regulatory scheme for industrial chemicals, the bill: repeals the

  Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989

  ,

  Industrial Chemicals (Registration Charge—Customs) Act 1997

  ,

  Industrial Chemicals (Registration Charge—Excise) Act 1997

  and

  Industrial Chemicals (Registration Charge—General) Act 1997

  ; makes consequential amendments to the

  Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Act 1994

  ,

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  and

  Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997

  ; and provides for transitional arrangements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum