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  • Date
    27 Nov 2024 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001
    and
    Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle Framework and Other Measures Act 2002
    to facilitate the return of responsibility and resources for administering Commonwealth business registers from the Australian Taxation Office to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, in winding up the Modernising Business Registers Program;
    Competition and Consumer Act 2010
    in relation to the regulation of safety and information standards and the penalty regime for industry codes;
    Housing Australia Act 2018
    to increase the cap on the Housing Australia Special Account to $4 billion; and
    Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
    to update the list of deductible gift recipients. Also amends 6 Acts in the Treasury portfolio to make miscellaneous and technical amendments and 2 other Acts to make contingent amendments. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    25 Nov 2024 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Commonwealth Entities (Payment Surcharges) Bill 2024 and Commonwealth Entities (Payment Surcharges) Tax (Imposition) Bill 2024, the bill amends the
    Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977
    and 3 legislative instruments to make consequential amendments. Also repeals 3 legislative instruments and retrospectively applies the authority to charge and collect payment surcharges to payments made on or after 1 January 2003. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    25 Nov 2024 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Commonwealth Entities (Payment Surcharges) Tax (Imposition) Bill 2024 and Commonwealth Entities (Payment Surcharges) (Consequential Provisions and Other Matters) Bill 2024, the bill authorises Commonwealth entities to charge and collect payment surcharges. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    25 Nov 2024 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Commonwealth Entities (Payment Surcharges) Bill 2024 and Commonwealth Entities (Payment Surcharges) (Consequential Provisions and Other Matters) Bill 2024, the bill imposes a tax equivalent to the amount of the payment surcharge that has already been collected by a Commonwealth entity, where the authorisation of the past collection of a payment surcharge is beyond the other powers of the Commonwealth to some extent. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    21 Nov 2024 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Health and Aged Care 
    Summary
    The bill: provides for transitional arrangements to support the commencement of the
    Aged Care Act 2024
    ; makes consequential amendments to the
    Crimes Act 1914
    ,
    Freedom of Information Act 1982
    and
    National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013
    ; and repeals the
    Aged Care Act 1997
    ,
    Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission Act 2018
    and
    Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    21 Nov 2024 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Home Affairs 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Migration Act 1958
    to enable the Minister to determine prohibited things in relation to immigration detention facilities and detainees, if the Minister if satisfied that possession or use of that thing might be a risk to the health, safety or security of persons in the facility, or to the order of the facility; expand powers to search, screen and seize prohibited things in relation to immigration detention facilities and detainees without a warrant; and enable, in certain circumstances, a detainee to continue to have access to alternative means of communication following seizure of a communication device. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    21 Nov 2024 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Communications 
    Summary
    Establishes a minimum age for social media use and an obligation on providers of an age-restricted social media platform to take reasonable steps to prevent age-restricted users from having an account with the platform. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    21 Nov 2024 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Attorney-General 
    Summary
    Clarifies that information or a record obtained under specified warrants issued to the Australian Federal Police in connection with Operation Ironside was not intercepted while passing over a telecommunications system and was obtained lawfully under the relevant warrants. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    20 Nov 2024 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Health and Aged Care 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Midwife Professional Indemnity (Commonwealth Contribution) Scheme Act 2010
    to expand the Midwife Professional Indemnity Scheme to include intrapartum care provided outside of a hospital, including homebirths and Birthing on Country models of care. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    07 Nov 2024 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Home Affairs 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Customs Act 1901
    to: implement Australia’s obligations under the Second Protocol to Amend the Agreement Establishing the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area; and amend certain provisions relating to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations Plus and the Malaysia-Australia Free Trade Agreement. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

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