Search all bills
TOTAL RESULTS: 188
-
- Date
-
02 Dec 2019
- Chamber
-
Senate
- Status
-
Act
-
Portfolio
-
Agriculture
- Summary
-
Amends the
Biosecurity Act 2015
and Imported Food Control Act 1992
to enable computerised decision-making for certain purposes.
-
- Date
-
02 Dec 2019
- Chamber
-
Senate
- Status
-
Act
-
Portfolio
-
Agriculture
- Summary
-
Amends the
Wine Australia Act 2013
to provide for Wine Australia to establish and maintain a directory of labels that are attached to grape products such as wine intended for export from Australia.
-
- Date
-
28 Nov 2019
- Chamber
-
House of Representatives
- Status
-
Act
-
Portfolio
-
Home Affairs
- Summary
-
Amends the
Australian Crime Commission Act 2002
, Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement Act 2010
and Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979
to confirm the validity of current and former special Australian Crime Commission (ACC) operations and special ACC investigations determinations.
-
- Date
-
28 Nov 2019
- Chamber
-
House of Representatives
- Status
-
Act
-
Portfolio
-
Treasury
- Summary
-
Gives effect to certain recommendations of the Financial Services Royal Commission by amending the:
Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001
(ASIC Act) and Insurance Contracts Act 1984
(IC Act) to enable the unfair contract terms regime under the ASIC Act to apply to insurance contracts covered by the IC Act; ASIC Act and Corporations Act 2001
to specify that the consumer protection provisions of the ASIC Act apply to funeral expenses policies; National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009
and National Consumer Credit Protection (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2009
to: require mortgage brokers to act in the best interests of consumers and give priority to consumers in certain circumstances where there is a conflict of interest; provide that mortgage brokers and mortgage intermediaries must not accept conflicted remuneration; prohibit employers, credit providers and mortgage intermediaries from giving conflicted remuneration to mortgage brokers or mortgage intermediaries; and enable the circumstances in which the prohibition on conflicted remuneration applies to be prescribed by regulation; and National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009
to make consequential amendments.
-
- Date
-
28 Nov 2019
- Chamber
-
House of Representatives
- Status
-
Act
-
Portfolio
-
Treasury
- Summary
-
Gives effect to certain recommendations of the Financial Services Royal Commission by amending the:
Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001
(ASIC Act) and National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009
to: relocate the existing search warrant powers of the Australian and Securities Investment Commission (ASIC) from across ASIC administered legislation into the ASIC Act; and enhance ASIC's existing search warrant powers by reference to the search warrant powers in the Crimes Act 1914
; Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979
to allow ASIC to receive and use interception information for its own investigations and prosecutions of serious offences; Corporations Act 2001
to replace the requirement for obtaining an Australian financial services licence (AFS licence) that a person be of 'good fame and character' with the requirement that they be a 'fit and proper person'; National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009
and National Consumer Credit Protection (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2009
to: enable ASIC to cancel an AFS licence if the licensee does not start to provide the relevant financial services within six months after the licence is granted; clarify ASIC's power to suspend or cancel an Australian credit licence if the person does not engage, or ceases to engage, in credit activities; require licensees to notify ASIC if they do not start to provide the financial services or engage in the credit activities covered by the licence within six months of it being granted; Corporations Act 2001
and National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009
to strengthen and broadly align provisions relating to false or misleading statements; and Corporations Act 2001
, National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009
and National Consumer Credit Protection (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2009
to: expand the grounds on which ASIC can make a banning order against a person; and enable ASIC to make additional types of banning orders to prohibit a person from controlling or performing any or particular functions in relation to a financial services or credit business. Also amends seven Acts to make consequential amendments and provide for transitional arrangements.
-
- Date
-
28 Nov 2019
- Chamber
-
House of Representatives
- Status
-
Act
-
Portfolio
-
Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business
- Summary
-
Amends the
Student Identifiers Act 2014
to: allow any entity to request access to an individual's authenticated vocational education and training (VET) transcripts (or extract), where that access is permitted by the access controls set by the individual; and introduce new civil penalties in relation to further applications for student identifiers, alteration of authenticated VET transcripts and representing that a non-authentic document is an authenticated VET transcript (or extract).
-
- Date
-
28 Nov 2019
- Chamber
-
House of Representatives
- Status
-
Act
-
Portfolio
-
Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts
- Summary
-
Introduced with the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer) Bill 2019, the bill establishes an ongoing funding arrangement for fixed wireless and satellite infrastructure (the Regional Broadband Scheme) by imposing a monthly charge on carriers, including NBN Co Ltd, in relation to each premises connected to their network that has an active fixed-line superfast broadband service during the month.
-
- Date
-
28 Nov 2019
- Chamber
-
House of Representatives
- Status
-
Act
-
Portfolio
-
Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts
- Summary
-
Introduced with the Telecommunications (Regional Broadband Scheme) Charge Bill 2019, the bill amends the:
Competition and Consumer Act 2010
and Telecommunications Act 1997
in relation to: Layer 2 bitstream services; and statutory infrastructure providers; Competition and Consumer Act 2010
and Telecommunications Act 1997
and two legislative instruments in relation to local access lines; Competition and Consumer Act 2010
, Telecommunications Act 1997
and Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999
in relation to funding of fixed wireless broadband and satellite broadband; and National Broadband Network Companies Act 2011
to require NBN Co to provide certain data about premises connected, or due to be connected, to the NBN. Also repeals four declarations.
-
- Date
-
28 Nov 2019
- Chamber
-
House of Representatives
- Status
-
Act
-
Portfolio
-
Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business
- Summary
-
Amends the
Trade Support Loans Act 2014
to: enable the secretary to provide for offsetting arrangements where an amount is wrongly paid as an instalment of a trade support loan (TSL); provide the secretary with a discretion to extend the period for notifying a change of address; and align the minimum periods for TSL recipients to notify the secretary of information under the Act.
-
- Date
-
27 Nov 2019
- Chamber
-
House of Representatives
- Status
-
Act
-
Portfolio
-
Attorney-General
- Summary
-
Amends: the
Family Law Act 1975
and Bankruptcy Act 1966
to: give effect to a referral of power from Western Australia to the Commonwealth in respect of superannuation matters in family law proceedings for separating de facto couples in Western Australia; extend federal bankruptcy jurisdiction to the Family Court of Western Australia to hear bankruptcy proceedings concurrently with family law proceedings; and provide for transitional arrangements; and 21 Acts to make consequential amendments.
Browse bills
- Browse all bills by title
-
- Latest updates to bill homepages
-
-
- Bills lists
-
These publications provide a complete list of all bills before Parliament for the current calendar year and details of their progress through both houses of Parliament.
More on bills
Passage of legislation
One of the main roles of the Australian Parliament is to make laws for the people of Australia. Learn more about each step of the law-making process with our passage of legislation website.
Bills and committees
The House of Representatives Selection Committee and the Senate Selection of Bills Committee routinely consider whether bills should be referred to committees for inquiry and report. The House Committee reports its determinations to the chamber, while the Senate Committee makes recommendations which the Senate may then adopt. Bills may also be referred to committees by either chamber or by the relevant minister to House and joint committees.
Acts and Australian Law
Senate statistics