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• Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Jun 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to: extend the free rate of customs duty for certain medical and hygiene products from 31 December 2020 to 30 June 2021; and provide for a free rate of customs duty for goods for use in the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter Program and for prescribed motor vehicles and motor vehicle components for research and development activities by automotive service providers previously registered under the Automotive Transformation Scheme and where the time for working out duty is between 1 April 2021 and 30 June 2025. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Motor Vehicle Service and Repair Information Sharing Scheme) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Mar 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to establish a scheme that mandates that service and repair information provided to car dealership networks and manufacturer preferred repairs be made available for independent repairs and registered training organisations to purchase at a fair market price; and

  Copyright Act 1968

  to provide that the statutory licensing scheme for educational institutions does not apply to such information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals and Other Measures) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to: provide for a free rate of customs duty for certain medical and hygiene products between 1 February 2020 and 31 December 2020; remove the $12 000 special customs duty on used and second-hand motor vehicles that are Peruvian originating goods or that are Trans-Pacific Partnership originating goods; separately identify specifically formulated caffeinated beverages, formulated supplementary sports foods and formulated supplementary foods; specifically identify vitamins and food supplements; provide that wheelie bins do not fall within the classification of vehicles; provide that plates, rods, angles, shapes, sections, tubes, pipes and the like requiring further modification prior to being used cannot be classified as parts; and repeal redundant provisions specifying phasing rates of customs duty under certain free trade agreements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Corporations (Fees) Amendment (Hayne Royal Commission Response) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Nov 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response) Bill 2020, the bill amends the

  Corporations (Fees) Act 2001

  to enable the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to charge a fee for an application by an entity to be exempted from the deferred sales model for add-on insurance products. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Corporations Amendment (Corporate Insolvency Reforms) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Nov 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: establish a debt restructuring process for eligible small companies and provide temporary relief for eligible companies seeking to enter the process; and expand the situations where documents relating to the external administration of a company may be given electronically and allow documents relating to the external administration of a company to be signed electronically; and

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  and

  Corporations Act 2001

  to establish a simplified liquidation process for the purpose of winding up the affairs and distributing the property of an eligible company in a creditors' voluntary winding up, as well as the requirements for entering and exiting the process. Also makes consequential amendments to seven Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment (High Risk Terrorist Offenders) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Sep 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to provide for a State or Territory Supreme Court to make an extended supervision order (ESO) as an alternative to a continuing detention order, which may impose conditions on high risk terrorist offenders;

  National Security Information (Criminal and Civil Proceedings) Act 2004

  to provide for the availability of court-only evidence in ESO proceedings;

  Crimes Act 1914

  ,

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  and

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  to extend the application of the existing control order monitoring warrant provisions to the monitoring of ESOs;

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

  and

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977

  to make consequential amendments; and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (International Production Orders) Act 2020

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes Legislation Amendment (Economic Disruption) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Sep 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to update money laundering offences;

  Crimes Act 1914

  to clarify that certain obligations imposed on investigating officials do not apply to undercover operatives;

  Proceeds of Crimes Act 2002

  to: ensure that buy-back orders cannot be used by criminal suspects and their associates to buy back property forfeited to the Commonwealth or to delay court proceedings; clarify that courts may make orders confiscating the value of a debt, loss or liability that has been avoided, deferred or reduced through criminal offending; clarify that courts with proceeds jurisdiction are able to make orders in respect of property located overseas; increase penalties for non-compliance with information-gathering powers, and clarify and expand the circumstances in which information gathered can be disclosed and used; enable the minister to make grants from the Confiscated Assets Account (CAA) to the States and Territories for crime prevention and certain other measures; and provide that money (other than a penalty) paid to the Commonwealth under a foreign deferred prosecution agreement that represents benefits or property derived from unlawful criminal activity must be credited to the CAA; and

  COAG Reform Fund Act 2008

  and

  Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

  to expand the Official Trustee in Bankruptcy's powers in relation to property, information gathering and cost recovery. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Civil Aviation (Unmanned Aircraft Levy) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Civil Aviation Amendment (Unmanned Aircraft Levy Collection and Payment) Bill 2020, the bill imposes a levy for future cost recovery arrangements for regulatory services for remotely piloted aircraft operators. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Civil Aviation Amendment (Unmanned Aircraft Levy Collection and Payment) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Civil Aviation (Unmanned Aircraft Levy) Bill 2020, the bill amends the

  Civil Aviation Act 1988

  to establish arrangements for the Civil Aviation Safety Authority to collect the levy imposed on remotely piloted aircraft operators. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Jobkeeper Payments) Amendment Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Coronavirus Economic Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020

  to enable the extension of the jobkeeper scheme to 28 March 2021 by extending the current time limit on payment rules authorised by the Act;

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to extend the circumstances in which protected information can be disclosed;

  Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus (Measures No. 2) Act 2020

  and

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: support the extended operation of the jobkeeper scheme; and make consequential amendments; and

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to ensure provisions regarding agreements in relation to the taking of annual leave are repealed on 28 September 2020, as originally intended. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum