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• First Home Saver Accounts Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 May 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills, the bill: establishes and governs the operation of First Home Saver Accounts; provides for the payment of Government contributions of 17 per cent on the first $5,000 of personal contributions made into an account each year; and provides for the prudential regulation of account providers. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fisheries Legislation Amendment (New Governance Arrangements for the Australian Fisheries Management Authority and Other Matters) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Mar 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Following government endorsement of the recommendations of the Review of the Corporate Governance of Statutory Authorities and Office Holders (the Uhrig Review), the bill amends the:

  Fisheries Administration Act 1991

  ,

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  and

  Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984

  to implement changes to the governance arrangements of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority;

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  and

  Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984

  to require foreign fishing vessels to stow fishing equipment whilst transiting through the Australian Fishing Zone (AFZ); and

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  and

  Migration Act 1958

  to enable enforcement action to be taken against foreign vessels breaching international fishery management measures and boats supporting illegal fishing in the AFZ. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Emergency Response Consolidation) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Feb 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  and

  Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007

  to prohibit certain pay television licensees from providing television channels that contain a large amount of R18+ programming to certain prescribed areas;

  Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995

  to permit the transportation of pornographic material through a prescribed area to a place outside the prescribed area;

  Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

  and

  Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007

  to repeal permit system amendments providing public access to certain Aboriginal land; and

  Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007

  to enable community dependent roadhouses to be licensed as community stores. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Emergency Response Consolidation) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Sep 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  The bill amends the:

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to prohibit the provision of R18+ television programs in prescribed areas of the Northern Territory;

  Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007

  in relation to residential tenancy agreements and Commonwealth obligations;

  Defence Housing Australia Act 1987

  to allow Defence Housing Australia to assist the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs to deliver housing to remote Indigenous communities;

  Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

  and

  Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007

  in relation to land rights; and

  Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007

  in relation to the acquisition of rights, titles and interests in land and community stores. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Farm Household Support Amendment (Farm Help Criteria and Other Measures) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Sep 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry portfolio 

  Bill

• Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Review of Prudential Decisions) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Sep 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Banking Act 1959

  ,

  Insurance Act 1973

  ,

  Life Insurance Act 1995

  ,

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  ,

  Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997

  ,

  Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Simplifying Regulation and Review) Act 2007

  and

  Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Discretionary Mutual Funds and Direct Offshore Foreign Insurers) Act 2007

  to introduce a court-based process for disqualifying an individual from operating an Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) regulated entity;

  Banking Act 1959

  ,

  Insurance Act 1973

  and

  Life Insurance Act 1995

  in relation to APRA’s specific direction powers;

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to incorporate a materiality test into the trigger for APRA to issue a direction to freeze assets of a superannuation entity;

  Insurance Act 1973

  ,

  Life Insurance Act 1995

  and

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to remove ministerial consent from administrative decisions made by APRA or the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) under those Acts;

  Banking Act 1959

  ,

  Financial Sector Collection of Data Act 2001

  ,

  Insurance Act 1973

  ,

  Life Insurance Act 1995

  and

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to apply merits review to appropriate decisions made by APRA or the ATO; and makes consequential amendments to other Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Legislation Amendment (Child Disability Assistance) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Aug 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to introduce an annual, tax free payment of $1000 to certain carers of disabled children under the age of 16, and makes consequential amendments to the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Northern Territory National Emergency Response and Other Measures) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Aug 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Part of a package of five bills to implement the Northern Territory National Emergency Response, the bill amends the

  Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995

  ,

  Australian Crime Commission Act 2002

  ,

  Australian Federal Police Act 1979

  ,

  Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

  and proposed

  Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007

  in relation to: prohibition of pornographic material; law enforcement; retention of government ownership of facilities constructed on Aboriginal land; access to Aboriginal land; and certain township lease grants. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Discretionary Mutual Funds and Direct Offshore Foreign Insurers) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Jun 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Corporations (National Guarantee Fund Levies) Amendment Bill 2007, the bill amends the

  Corporations Act 2001

  ,

  Financial Sector (Collection of Data) Act 2001

  and

  Insurance Act 1973

  to: prudentially regulate direct offshore foreign insurers and collect information on discretionary mutual funds (which will not be prudentially regulated); and makes an amendment consequential on the proposed

  Corporations (National Guarantee Fund Levies) Amendment Act 2007

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Simplifying Regulation and Review) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Jun 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the financial sector regulation law to: implement recommendations of the Taskforce on Reducing Regulation Burdens on Business to streamline and simplify prudential regulation; provide more equitable financial assistance to superannuation funds who have suffered loss as a result of fraud or theft; abolish the Special Protection Account; consolidate and rationalise prudential reporting requirements in the superannuation industry; close a regulatory gap for reporting contraventions of the market conduct and disclosure provisions in the

  Corporations Act 2001

  ; and makes technical amendments consequential on the enactment of the

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum