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• Regulator Performance Omnibus Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Updates and repeals outdated administrative provisions across Commonwealth legislation, including by amending the:

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  to: streamline the indexation of certain thresholds and amounts; and make administrative amendments;

  Defence Act 1903

  to enable the minister to delegate certain powers in relation to the Woomera Prohibited Area;

  National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011

  and

  Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011

  to streamline interactions for entities regulated by the National VET Regulator and the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency;

  National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Transitional Provisions) Act 2011

  to make transitional provisions;

  Industrial Chemicals Act 2019

  to: correct an error; and enable the executive director to delegate power or functions;

  National Health Act 1953

  to streamline the process for approving a pharmacist to supply pharmaceutical benefits under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme;

  Private Health Insurance Act 2007

  to clarify certain timeframes; Australian Jobs Act 2013 to enable the Australian Industry Participation Authority to suspend or cancel an approved Australian Industry Participation Plan;

  Building Energy Efficiency Disclosure Act 2010

  to enable an issuing authority to revoke and reissue a building energy efficiency certificate when the certificate has been found to contain an error;

  Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards Act 2012

  in relation to: administration by the Greenhouse and Energy Minister Standards (GEMS) Regulator; compliance with requirements by suppliers of customised products; and defining classes of products in a GEMS determination;

  Olympic Insignia Protection Act 1987

  to: clarify that the International Olympic Committee and the Australian Olympic Committee can register their own insignia as trade marks; and provide for the rejection of applications to register trade marks not applied for by these bodies;

  Trade Marks Act 1995

  in relation to: alignment of grace periods for renewal of a trade mark; revocation and restoration of registration of a trade mark; and replacement of the Official Journal of Trade Marks;

  Patents Act 1990

  to remove spent transitional and savings provisions;

  Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005

  to: remove certain powers of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA); and require the minister to have regard to certain expertise when nominating a person for appointment to the ACMA; and

  Radiocommunications Act 1992

  to: remove certain requirements in relation to spectrum plans and frequency band plans, apparatus licences, variations and revocations of class licences and advisory guidelines; and provide for personal information to be excluded from public inspection and subject to confidentiality in circumstances that the ACMA considers appropriate. Also repeals the

  Cockatoo and Schnapper Islands Act 1949

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Religious Discrimination (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Nov 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 and Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2021, the bill amends the:

  Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986

  to: extend the Australian Human Rights Commission’s complaints-handling functions to complaints of unlawful religious discrimination under the

  Religious Discrimination Act 2021

  , when enacted; and establish the Religious Discrimination Commissioner as a member of the commission;

  Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986

  and

  Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986

  to allow the Inspector-General to inquire into acts or practices of intelligence agencies that may be inconsistent with or contrary to the

  Religious Discrimination Act 2021

  , referred by the Australian Human Rights Commission;

  Civil Aviation Act 1988

  to provide that civil aviation regulations may be inconsistent with the

  Religious Discrimination Act 2021

  if necessary for the safety of air navigation;

  Fair Work Act 2009

  (FWA) to recognise the

  Religious Discrimination Act 2021

  as an anti-discrimination law for the purposes of the FWA’s general protection provisions;

  Sea Installations Act 1987

  (SIA) to recognise the

  Religious Discrimination Act 2021

  as an anti-discrimination law for the purposes of the SIA; and

  Religious Discrimination Act 2021

  to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Equal Opportunity (Religious Exceptions) Amendment Act 2021

  (Vic). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Religious Discrimination Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Nov 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Religious Discrimination (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2021 and Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2021, the bill: prohibits discrimination on the basis of a person’s religious belief or activity in a range of areas of public life, including in relation to employment, education, access to premises and the provision of goods, services and accommodation; establishes general and specific exceptions from the prohibition of religious discrimination; provides that certain statements of belief do not constitute discrimination for the purposes of certain specified Commonwealth, state or territory anti-discrimination laws; creates offences in relation to victimisation and discriminatory advertisements; establishes the office of the Religious Discrimination Commissioner; confers certain functions on the Australian Human Rights Commission; and provides for miscellaneous matters including delegation of powers or functions, protection from civil actions and a review of the operation of the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Ransomware Payments Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Jun 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WATTS, Tim, MP 

  Summary

  Establishes a mandatory requirement for Commonwealth, state or territory entities, corporations and partnerships to report to the Australian Cyber Security Centre ransomware payments paid in response to a ransomware attack. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Repatriation of Defence Data Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Jun 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  KATTER, Bob, Jnr, MP 

  Summary

  Requires the Secretary of the Department of Defence to ensure that sensitive data held in high-risk offshore storage facilities are transferred to sovereign Australian storage facilities by 25 April 2022. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Regulatory Powers (Standardisation Reform) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends: six Acts to remove current provisions providing for regulatory regimes and apply the standard provisions of the

  Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014

  ; and the

  Regulatory Powers (Standards Provisions) Act 2014

  to make minor amendments to the ability of monitoring powers to be exercised in relation to matters and the descriptions of offence provisions and provisions relating to infringement notices which might apply to the contravention of both a civil penalty and criminal offence provision. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Amendment Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Radiocommunications Legislation Amendment (Reform and Modernisation) Bill 2020 and Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence Tax) Amendment Bill 2020, the bill amends the

  Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Act 1983

  to enable the Australian Communications and Media Authority to determine whether, for a specified class of licences with longer than 12 months duration, the receiver licence tax is imposed on the issue of the licence for the full period the licence is in force, or whether it should be paid in annual instalments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence Tax) Amendment Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Radiocommunications Legislation Amendment (Reform and Modernisation) Bill 2020 and Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Amendment Bill 2020, the bill amends the

  Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence Tax) Act 1983

  to enable the Australian Communications and Media Authority to determine whether, for a specified class of licences with longer than 12 months duration, the transmitter licence tax is imposed on the issue of the licence for the full period the licence is in force, or whether it should be paid in annual instalments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Radiocommunications Legislation Amendment (Reform and Modernisation) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Amendment Bill 2020 and Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence Tax) Amendment Bill 2020, the bill amends: the

  Radiocommunications Act 1992

  to: amend the object of the Act; provide for the minister to issue ministerial policy statements which the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) must have regard to in exercising its spectrum management; require ACMA to publish an annual work program covering a minimum five-year period; streamline spectrum allocation and re-allocation processes; extend maximum licence terms for apparatus and spectrum licences, confer certain powers on ACMA to make equipment rules that prescribe standards of equipment and impose obligations or prohibitions in relation to equipment; make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2020

  ; expand ACMA's accreditation, compliance and enforcement, and information-gathering powers; make miscellaneous amendments in relation to ACMA's powers to grant exemptions from penalty provisions, exemptions for Defence related activities, and ACMA's ability to use computer assisted decision making; and extend the maximum duration of spectrum and apparatus licences; the

  Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005

  in relation to annual reporting requirements; the

  Radiocommunications Act 1991

  and four other Acts to repeal the datacasting transmitter licence framework; the

  Radiocommunications Act 1992

  and

  Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005

  to repeal redundant provisions in relation to public inquiries; and five Acts to make consequential or minor amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Recycling and Waste Reduction (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Recycling and Waste Reduction Bill 2020, Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (General) Bill 2020. Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Customs) Bill 2020 and Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Excise) Bill 2020, the bill: repeals the

  Product Stewardship Act 2011

  ; provides for application, saving and transitional provisions relating to product stewardship; enables the minister to make transitional rules; and amends the

  Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020

  to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2020

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum