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  • Date
    14 Aug 2006 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Not Proceeding 
    Sponsor
     
    Summary
    Amends the
    Parliamentary Service Act 1999
    and
    Public Service Act 1999
    to require annual reports of departments and agencies to contain details of the timing of the payment of accounts to small business. 

    Bill

  • Date
    21 Oct 2009 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Attorney-General 
    Summary
    Consequent on the Personal Property Securities Bill 2009, the bill amends 25 Acts relating to fisheries, intellectual property, maritime and other legislation to enable the creation, registration, priority, extinguishment or enforcement of interests in personal property. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    10 Mar 2010 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Attorney-General 
    Summary
    Amends: the
    Corporations Act 2001
    to: provide for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission register of company charges to be closed; amend terminology relating to certain transactions which create security interests; and extend the concept of property; the
    Personal Property Securities Act 2009
    to simplify certain transitional provisions; and 10 Acts to make consequential amendments. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    23 Feb 2011 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Attorney-General 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Corporations Act 2001
    in relation to: registrable charges; the liability of receivers and voluntary administrators for certain transactions; enforcement of liens and pledges; vesting of security interests; and appointment of an administrator under a transitional security agreement;
    Personal Property Securities Act 2009
    in relation to: taking certain personal property free of security interests; harmonising the definition of ‘security interest’ with New Zealand legislation; Clearing House Electronic Subregister System securities; access to third party data; the registrar’s powers to conduct investigations; security interests in authorised deposit-taking institutions; and state referral powers; and
    Corporations Act 2001
    and
    Personal Property Securities Act 2009
    to make technical amendments. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    12 Oct 2011 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Attorney-General 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Personal Property Securities Act 2009
    to: provide that the Act commences before the Personal Property Securities national online register is available for public use; and make consequential amendments; and
    Personal Property Securities (Corporations and Other Amendments) Act 2010
    to make a consequential amendment. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    24 Jun 2009 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Attorney-General 
    Summary
    Establishes a single national regime for the registration of security interests in personal property, other than land, supported by a national online register of personal property securities. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    06 Dec 2000 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Industry, Science and Resources portfolio 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    15 May 2002 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Industry, Tourism and Resources 
    Summary
    Implements recommendations from a national review of legislation governing exploration and development of offshore petroleum resources and its compliance with competition policy principles by amending the
    Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967
    to: impose a limit on renewals of exploration permits; and reduce compliance costs for the petroleum industry by reducing the number of reviews required, of the commerciality of a discovery held under a retention lease. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    17 Sep 2003 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Industry, Tourism and Resources 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Offshore Petroleum (Safety Levies) Bill 2003, the bill amends the
    Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967
    to: establish a National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority which will provide a national safety regulatory regime for Australia’s offshore petroleum industry in Commonwealth, State and Northern Territory coastal waters; ensure that the Commonwealth remittance to the States and the Northern Territory of annual fees collected in respect of titles does not include the goods and services tax component of the fees; move the procedures for petroleum data submission from the Act into regulations; and improve safety regulation and administration. Also contains a regulation-making power and transitional provisions. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    24 Jun 1999 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Industry, Science and Resources portfolio 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

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