A bill is a proposal for a law or a change to an existing law. A bill becomes law (an Act) when agreed to in identical form by both houses of Parliament and assented to by the Governor-General.
Bills introduced to Parliament are scrutinised to make sure they meet certain standards and to consider whether they should be referred to a committee for further investigation. This can include feedback from stakeholders and the general public, and a report recommending potential improvements to the bill.
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24 May 2007
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Amends the:
Financial Sector (Transfers of Business) Act 1999
to: facilitate the adoption of a non-operating holding company as the ultimate holding company of a financial group in Australia; and rename it as the Financial Sector (Business Transfer and Group Restructures) Act 1999
; Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
to: remove tax impediments preventing financial groups containing authorised deposit-taking institutions from restructuring; and make consequential amendments to two other Acts.
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26 May 2010
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Amends: 11 Acts in relation to: the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s (APRA) preventive powers, correction powers, failure management powers, and data collection powers, APRA’s and the Australian Taxation Office’s investigation powers, auditors and actuaries, and the Financial Claims Scheme; six Acts in relation to the methodologies governing the determination of financial sector levies; and four Acts to make technical amendments. Also repeals five redundant Acts.
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19 Mar 2009
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Amends: the
Life Insurance Act 1995
to establish a prudential regulation regime for non-operating holding companies of life insurance companies to be administered by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA); 19 other Acts to make consequential amendments; and the Banking Act 1959
, Insurance Act 1973
, Life Insurance Act 1995
, Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993
and First Home Saver Accounts Act 2008
to provide APRA with power to seek court injunctions against breaches of conditions or directions issued under those Acts.
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21 Jun 2007
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Introduced with the Corporations (National Guarantee Fund Levies) Amendment Bill 2007, the bill amends the
Corporations Act 2001
, Financial Sector (Collection of Data) Act 2001
and Insurance Act 1973
to: prudentially regulate direct offshore foreign insurers and collect information on discretionary mutual funds (which will not be prudentially regulated); and makes an amendment consequential on the proposed Corporations (National Guarantee Fund Levies) Amendment Act 2007
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19 Oct 2017
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Amends the
Banking Act 1959
, Insurance Act 1973
, Life Insurance Act 1995
and five other Acts to give the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority additional powers for crisis resolution and resolution planning in relation to regulated entities, including in relation to: statutory and judicial management; directions powers; transfer powers; conversion and write-off of capital instruments; stay provisions; foreign branches; the Financial Claims Scheme; and wind-up and other matters.
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11 Mar 1999
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26 Mar 1998
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05 Apr 2001
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05 Apr 2001
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13 May 2021
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Introduced with the Financial Regulator Assessment Authority (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2021, the bill: establishes the Financial Regulatory Assessment Authority to assess and report on the effectiveness and capability of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission; and prohibits the unauthorised use or disclosure of protected information provided to the Authority.
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