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• Fuel Quality Standards Amendment Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Mar 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment, Heritage and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000

  to: provide the minister with a wider range of conditions that can apply to approvals to vary fuel standards; simplify procedures when an urgent approval is required to avoid a fuel supply shortfall; provide for civil penalties, infringement notices and enforceable undertakings; enable the minister to consider how fuel is to be supplied when determining a standard; extend information sharing powers; and extend the types of courts that have jurisdiction for various matters. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Federal Financial Relations (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Feb 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Federal Financial Relations Bill 2009, the bill makes amendments and repeals parts of five Acts consequent on the proposed

  Federal Financial Relations Act 2009

  . Also repeals the

  Health Care (Appropriation) Act 1998

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Federal Financial Relations Bill 2009

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  Date

  12 Feb 2009 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Federal Financial Relations (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2009, the bill appropriates funds to provide financial assistance to the states by implementing COAG’s Intergovernmental Agreement on Federal Financial Relations through general revenue assistance (including GST payments), National Specific Purpose Payments and National Partnership payments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Federal Court of Australia Amendment (Criminal Jurisdiction) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Trade Practices Amendment (Cartel Conduct and Other Measures) Bill 2008, the bill amends the

  Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983

  ,

  Federal Court of Australia Act 1976

  and

  Judiciary Act 1903

  to enable the Federal Court to apply uniform indictable criminal procedure across Australia to deal with serious cartel offences. Also makes consequential and other amendments to five other Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Federal Justice System Amendment (Efficiency Measures) Bill (No. 1) 2009

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  Date

  03 Dec 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Federal Court of Australia Act 1976

  to: allow the Federal Court to refer all or part of a proceeding to a referee for report; and allow a single Federal Court judge to make interlocutory orders in proceedings that would otherwise be heard and determined by a Full Court;

  International Arbitration Act 1974

  to give the Federal Court concurrent jurisdiction with State and Territory Supreme Courts to enforce foreign arbitral awards;

  Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975

  ,

  Family Law Act 1975

  ,

  Federal Court of Australia Act 1976

  and

  Native Title Act 1993

  to remove restrictions on Chief Justices and Presidents acquiring an interest in land for the purposes of the

  Lands Acquisition Act 1989

  ;

  Public Order (Protection of Persons and Property) Act 1971

  to allow authorised, non-judicial officers of the Federal Court power to make orders specifying that certain premises are ‘court premises’; and

  Family Law Act 1975

  to respond to the Full Family Court of Australia decision in

  Black v Black

  relating to the satisfaction of technical requirements for binding financial and termination agreements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Foreign Evidence Amendment Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Foreign Evidence Act 1994

  to: streamline the process for adducing foreign material that appears to consist of a business record; and make amendments in relation to: testimony obtained from foreign countries; non-conviction based proceeds of crime matters; court discretion when using foreign evidence; and the Attorney-General’s certification of foreign material. Also contains application and transitional provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Nov 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Implements a workplace relations system which provides for: the establishment of National Employment Standards, modern awards and national minimum wage orders; the establishment of the statutory offices of Fair Work Australia to administer the system and the Fair Work Ombudsman to promote compliance; fair work instruments; and the creation of Fair Work Divisions in the Federal Court and Federal Magistrate’s Court to hear workplace relations matters. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Nov 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to enable: Centrelink to make oral submissions to Social Security Appeals Tribunal (SSAT) hearings; SSAT to give oral reasons on ‘affirmed’ cases; and SSAT members to be appointed for a term of up to five years;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  ,

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to repeal redundant references to disability wage supplement and rehabilitation allowance; and

  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005

  ,

  Native Title Amendment (Technical Amendments) Act 2007

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Claims Scheme (ADIs) Levy Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Oct 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Financial Claims Scheme (General Insurers) Levy Bill 2008 and Financial System Legislation Amendment (Financial Claims Scheme and Other Measures) Bill 2008, the bill provides for regulations to be made to impose a levy on authorised deposit-taking institutions in the event that liquidation funds are not sufficient to recover the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s costs of the Financial Claims Scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Claims Scheme (General Insurers) Levy Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Oct 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Financial Claims Scheme (ADIs) Levy Bill 2008 and Financial System Legislation Amendment (Financial Claims Scheme and Other Measures) Bill 2008, the bill provides for regulations to be made to impose a levy on general insurers in the event that liquidation funds are not sufficient to recover the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s costs of the Financial Claims Scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum