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• Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management (Register) Charge (General) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment 

  Summary

  Part of a package of five bills to establish a national framework to manage the ongoing use, handling and disposal of industrial chemicals, the bill imposes an annual scheduling charge on registered introducers of industrial chemicals, so far as that charge is neither a duty of customs nor a duty of excise. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Industrial Chemicals Legislation Amendment Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment 

  Summary

  Part of a package of five bills to establish a national framework to manage the ongoing use, handling and disposal of industrial chemicals, the bill amends the:

  Industrial Chemicals Act 2019

  to: provide that the scheduling charge can be collected in conjunction with the registration charge; provide that the scheduling charge is not credited to the Industrial Chemicals Special Account; and correct a drafting error; and

  Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management (Register) Act 2020

  to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2020

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Collecting Institutions Legislation Amendment Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends six Acts to: provide national collecting institutions with broader investment powers in relation to donated revenue than those currently permitted by the

  Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013

  ; and make administrative amendments, including standardising delegation powers and the maximum length of service for governing body members, removing ministerial approval requirements in relation to routine financial transactions and assets disposals, and removing certain reporting requirements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Emergency Declaration (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Emergency Declaration Bill 2020 to implement a recommendation of the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements, the bill amends: 24 Acts, four regulations and four ordinances that contain powers that are used by the Commonwealth when responding to, or supporting the recovery from, emergencies to enable the use of alternative or simplified statutory tests to streamline the exercise of those powers where a national emergency has been declared; and

  National Emergency Declaration Act 2020

  and

  Radiocommunications Act 1992

  to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Radiocommunications Legislation Amendment (Reform and Modernisation) Act 2020

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Emergency Declaration Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Emergency Declaration (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2020 to implement a recommendation of the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements, the bill: establishes a framework for the declaration of a national emergency by the Governor-General, on the advice of the Prime Minister; enables ministers to suspend, vary or substitute administrative requirements in legislation they administer in certain circumstances; and enables the Prime Minister to require Commonwealth entities to report on available stockpiles, assets and resources, and options and recommendations to respond to a national emergency. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Regulatory Powers (Standardisation Reform) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

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

  Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014

  ; and the

  Regulatory Powers (Standards Provisions) Act 2014

  to make minor amendments to the ability of monitoring powers to be exercised in relation to matters and the descriptions of offence provisions and provisions relating to infringement notices which might apply to the contravention of both a civil penalty and criminal offence provision. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to: introduce data disruption warrants to enable the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) to disrupt data by modifying, adding, copying or deleting data in order to frustrate the commission of serious offences online; and make minor technical corrections; the

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  to introduce network activity warrants to enable the AFP and ACIC to collect intelligence on serious criminal activity by permitting access to the devices and networks used to facilitate criminal activity; the

  Crimes Act 1914

  to: introduce account takeover warrants to enable the AFP and ACIC to take over a person's online account for the purposes of gathering evidence to further a criminal investigation; and make minor amendments to the controlled operations regime to ensure controlled operations can be conducted effectively in the online environment; and 10 Acts to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Amendment (Infrastructure in New Developments) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to: extend the existing prohibition on developers who are constitutional corporations from selling or leasing a building lot or building unit in a new development unless fibre-ready facilities are installed in proximity to the lot or unit to all types of developers, whether incorporated or unincorporated; clarify that a fibre-ready facility must be technically capable of being used in connection with an optical fibre line; and make a technical correction. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Serious Incident Response Scheme and Other Measures) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Aged Care Act 1997

  and

  Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission Act 2018

  to: implement a Serious Incident Response Scheme for residential aged care and flexible care delivered in a residential aged care setting; and expand the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner's powers to administer and enforce the requirements of the scheme and the responsibilities of approved providers and related offences; and

  Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission Act 2018

  to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2020

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Designs Amendment (Advisory Council on Intellectual Property Response) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Science, Energy and Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Designs Act 2003

  to: implement recommendations of the former Advisory Council on Intellectual Property review of the designs system by: providing designers a 12-month grace period to apply for design protection after publishing or using their design to protect designers from losing their rights through inadvertent disclosure; introducing an infringement exemption for prior use; streamlining the initial steps for registering a design; correcting an anomaly to the innocent infringer defence where infringement occurs between filing and registration; providing exclusive licensees with legal standing to take infringement action through the courts; and extending the power of the Registrar of Designs to make directions about the forms of documents to 'approved forms' for designs; and make minor technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum