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• Bankruptcy (Estate Charges) Amendment (Norfolk Island) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Oct 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Territories Legislation Amendment Bill 2020, the bill amends the

  Bankruptcy (Estate Charges) Act 1997

  to extend the application of the Act to Norfolk Island. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

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

  Track (What's this?)

  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

• Broadcasting Services Amendment (Regional Commercial Radio and Other Measures) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Jun 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to: enable regional commercial radio broadcasting licensees to nominate to split exemption periods from local news and information content obligations into two periods, together totalling no more than five weeks; amend the minimum service standard obligations which apply after a trigger event occurs; and permit regional and remote commercial television broadcasting licensees to be deemed to have complied with the multi-channel Australian content quota obligation in certain circumstances; and

  Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005

  to enable the Australian Communications and Media Authority to delegate an information-gathering power. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Boosting Cash Flow for Employers (Coronavirus Economic Response Package) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Mar 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of eight bills to respond to the economic impacts of the coronavirus, the bill provides for the Commissioner of Taxation to make cash flow boost payments to eligible entities comprising the first cash flow boost payments and the second cash flow boost payments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Business Names Registration (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019

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  Date

  04 Dec 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Commonwealth Registers Bill 2019, Treasury Laws Amendment (Registries Modernisation and Other Measures) Bill 2019, Corporations (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019 and National Consumer Credit Protection (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019 to create a new Commonwealth business registry regime, the bill amends the

  Business Names Registration (Fees) Act 2011

  to allow the registrar to collect fees related to the performance of registry functions or the exercise of a registry power. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Biosecurity Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2018

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  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Biosecurity Act 2015

  to: introduce new information-gathering arrangements in relation to monitoring, controlling and responding to biosecurity risks within Australia; clarify the definitions of ‘commercial-in-confidence information’ and ‘human remains’; clarify that protected information may be disclosed by Australia’s National Focal Point to other member states of the World Health Organization under the International Health Regulations (2005); and make technical amendments. Also repeals the

  Quarantine (Validation of Fees) Act 1985

  . 

  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

• Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Radio) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to remove the requirement for the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to provide written notice of its intention to declare a digital radio start-up day for a licence area; and

  Radiocommunications Act 1992

  to: remove requirements that the ACMA must consult before preparing or varying a digital radio channel plan; shorten timeframes associated with the formation of eligible joint venture and digital community radio broadcasting representative companies, and clarify the invitation and acceptance process for the formation of such companies; shorten timeframes associated with issuing a foundation digital radio multiplex transmitter licence (DRMT) in accordance with a price-based allocation system and DRMAT licensees giving the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission access undertakings; and clarify how excess multiplex capacity on foundation DRMT licences is determined. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Foreign Media Ownership, Community Radio and Other Measures) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Dec 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to: establish a Register of Foreign Ownership of Media Assets to be administered by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA); provide for new assessment criterion for the applications for, and renewals of, community radio broadcasting licences relating to material of local significance; and make consequential amendments; and

  Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005

  to enable the ACMA to delegate the power to issues certain notices. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Broadcasting Reform) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Jun 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Commercial Broadcasting (Tax) Bill 2017, the bill amends: the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to: abolish the ‘75% audience reach rule’, which prohibits commercial television broadcasting licensees from controlling licences whose combined licence area populations exceed 75 per cent of the Australian population; abolish the ‘2 out of 3 cross-media control rule’, which prohibits control over more than two out of three regulated media platforms in any one commercial radio licence area; provide additional local programming obligations for regional commercial television broadcasting licensees; and require the Australian Communications and Media Authority to undertake a review by 1 July 2021; the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  and Broadcasting Services (Events) Notice (No. 1) 2010 to amend measures relating to the anti-siphoning scheme and the anti-siphoning notice, including extending the automatic delisting period and removing the multi-channelling rule; and five Acts to provide for collection and assessment arrangements for the new transmitter licence tax. Also establishes a transitional support payment scheme for certain commercial broadcasters; and repeals the Broadcasting Services (Datacasting Charge) Regulations 2001,

  Datacasting Charge (Imposition) Act 1998

  ,

  Datacasting Transmitter Licence Fees Act 2006

  ,

  Radio Licence Fees Act 1964

  and

  Television Licence Fees Act 1964

  to abolish broadcasting licence fees, datacasting charges and apparatus licence fees paid by commercial broadcasters. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum