Second Reading Speeches

Judiciary Amendment Bill 2008

Type
Government
Portfolio
Attorney-General
Originating house
House of Representatives
Status
Act
Parliament no
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Summary

Responds to the High Court decision in

British American Tobacco v Western Australia
by amending the
Judiciary Act 1903
to provide that nothing in the Act prevents state and territory laws related to the recovery of invalid state and territory taxes from applying in federal jurisdiction in proceedings for the recovery of a tax or an amount paid in connection with a tax invalidly imposed by a law of a state or territory.

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