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• Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Nov 2016 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  ,

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  ,

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977

  and

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisations Act 1979

  to establish a regulatory framework to manage national security risks of espionage, sabotage and foreign interference to Australia’s telecommunications networks and facilities. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Regulatory Powers (Standardisation Reform) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Oct 2016 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends: 15 Acts to remove current provisions providing for regulatory regimes and to apply the standard provisions of the

  Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014

  ; and the

  Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014

  in relation to: the ability to secure evidence of a contravention when exercising monitoring powers; the age of photographs for identity cards; the time period for the making of a civil penalty order; and the cap on the amount to be stated in an infringement notice. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Sep 2016 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: enable the receipt of funds from terrorist organisations for legal assistance in certain circumstances; enable control orders to be imposed on persons from 14 years of age; impose an obligation on a person subject to a requirement to wear a tracking device to maintain the tracking device in good operational order and create offences for interfering with the operation of a tracking device; authorise the Australian Federal Police to ensure that the tracking device remains operational and to enter premises to install equipment necessary for the operation of the tracking device; remove the authority of the Family Court of Australia to issue control orders and preventative detention orders (PDOs); clarify the meaning of ‘imminence’ for the purposes of obtaining a PDO; and create a new offence prohibiting conduct advocating genocide;

  Crimes Act 1914

  ,

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  ,

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to establish regimes to monitor the compliance of individuals subject to a control order through search warrants, surveillance device warrants and telecommunications interception warrants;

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

  to enable the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to furnish security assessments directly to states and territories; and provide that unauthorised disclosures of information by members of the community, except those who are entrusted persons, only constitute an offence if the information endangers the health or safety of a person or prejudices the effective conduct of a special intelligence operation;

  Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995

  to broaden the range of conduct that may be considered as advocating the doing of a terrorist act;

  Crimes Act 1914

  to clarify the threshold requirements for the issue of a delayed notification search warrant;

  National Security Information (Criminal and Civil Proceedings) Act 2004

  to: broaden protections for national security information in control order proceedings; provide for a special advocate to represent the interests of people subject to control order proceedings who have been excluded from parts of a proceeding; enable a court to make an order that is inconsistent with regulations made under the Act if the Attorney-General has applied for the order; and enable the regulations to continue to apply to the extent they provide for ways of dealing with national security information in criminal and civil proceedings;

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to enable the disclosure of certain information; and

  Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975

  and

  Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Criminal Code Amendment (High Risk Terrorist Offenders) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Sep 2016 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to establish a scheme for the continuing detention of high risk terrorist offenders who are considered by a judge in civil proceedings to present an unacceptable risk to the community at the conclusion of their custodial sentence; and the proposed

  Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 2016

  ,

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Water Legislation Amendment (Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Sep 2016 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the Basin Plan 2012 to provide for a second notification of sustainable diversion limit adjustment measures by 30 June 2017 to enable basin jurisdictions to develop and notify new projects to augment the first package of measures notified on 5 May 2016 by the Basin Officials Committee to the Murray-Darling Basin Authority. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Courts Administration Legislation Amendment Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Dec 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Federal Court of Australia Act 1976

  ,

  Family Law Act 1975

  and

  Federal Circuit Court of Australia Act 1999

  to: designate the Federal Court of Australia (including the National Native Title Tribunal), the Family Court of Australia and the Federal Circuit Court of Australia as a single administrative entity under the

  Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013

  and a single statutory agency under the

  Public Service Act 1999

  ; establish shared corporate services functions for the courts; maintain the responsibility of the heads of jurisdictions in relation to the business and administrative affairs of their respective courts; provide for a chief executive officer (CEO) for each head of jurisdiction to assist with the management of administrative affairs and provide that the CEOs also hold the position of Principal Registrar; provide for the Federal Court CEO to have responsibility for managing the shared corporate services, with a requirement for consultation; and provide that the Federal Court CEO is the accountable authority for the administrative entity and the agency head for the statutory agency. Also makes consequential amendments to 16 Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes Legislation Amendment (Harming Australians) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Oct 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General and Senator Xenophon 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to extend the retrospective operation of the offences of murder and manslaughter of an Australian citizen or resident of Australia to crimes that occurred before 1 October 2002. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Defence Legislation Amendment (First Principles) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Oct 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Defence 

  Summary

  Implements recommendations of the First Principles Review of Defence by: amending the

  Defence Act 1903

  to: give full command of the Australian Defence Force to the Chief of the Defence Force (CDF); and consolidate the statutory treatment of the components of the Defence Force Cadets; amending 27 Acts to make consequential amendments; and repealing the

  Air Force Act 1923

  and

  Naval Defence Act 1910

  and incorporating relevant provisions of these Acts into the

  Defence Act 1903

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care Amendment (Independent Complaints Arrangements) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Aug 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Aged Care Act 1997

  to: transfer responsibility for the management and resolution of aged care complaints from the Secretary of the Department of Social Services to the Aged Care Commissioner; rename the Aged Care Commissioner to the Aged Care Complaints Commissioner; and make consequential amendments; and

  Australian Aged Care Quality Agency Act 2013

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Civil Law and Justice (Omnibus Amendments) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Jun 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975

  in relation to: notification of applications for review; non-disclosure of certain information; the method of giving documents or things for the purposes of proceedings; tribunal members’ powers to dismiss certain applications; and the reinstatement of withdrawn applications; the

  Bankruptcy Act 1996

  in relation to: confidentiality requirements relating to statements of affairs; removal of certain requirements to notify, and lodge requests with, the Official Receiver; imposition of time limits for certain applications; and removal of an obsolete reference; the

  Evidence Act 1995

  to make a drafting change; the

  Federal Circuit Court of Australia Act 1999

  to: provide arresters with the power to use reasonable force to enter premises to execute an arrest warrant; and remove an obsolete reference; the

  Federal Court of Australia Act 1976

  in relation to: the jury empanelment process; the pre-trial process for indictable offences; and technical amendments; the

  International Arbitration Act 1974

  in relation to: enforcement of foreign arbitral awards; confidentiality provisions to arbitral proceedings; and technical amendments; and 10 Acts to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum