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• Fair Work Amendment (Transfer of Business) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Oct 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: provide for the transfer of employees’ terms and conditions of employment from an old public sector employer to a national system employer where there is a connection between the two; and enable Fair Work Australia to make orders that modify the general effect of the transfer of business rules in these circumstances; and

  Fair Work Act 2009

  ,

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  and

  Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Superannuation Legislation Amendment (New Zealand Arrangement) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Oct 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Superannuation (Government Co-contribution for Low Income Earners) Act 2003

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to implement the Arrangement on Trans-Tasman Retirement Savings Portability to enable Australians and New Zealanders to transfer retirement savings between the two countries. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes Legislation Amendment (Serious Drugs, Identity Crime and Other Measures) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Oct 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: transfer the lists of illicit substances from the Criminal Code to the regulations; establish conditions and criteria for listing controlled and border controlled substances in regulations; extend the listing period and refine the criteria to be satisfied before an emergency determination can be made; expand the offence of dealing in identification to include foreign indictable offences; and create an offence in relation to using a carriage service in order to obtain and/or deal with identification information;

  Crimes Act 1914

  and

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to create criminal offences in relation to the use of false identities for the purposes of air travel;

  Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Act 2006

  to: clarify the functions of the Integrity Commissioner in relation to detection and prevention of corruption; widen the commissioner’s scope to consider an Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity corruption issue; and enable the commissioner to delegate the power to conduct public inquiries to an assistant commissioner;

  Crimes Act 1914

  to increase the value of a penalty unit to accommodate increases in the Consumer Price Index and provide for a three-yearly review of the penalty unit;

  Australian Federal Police Act 1979

  and

  Crimes (Superannuation Benefits) Act 1989

  to clarify that a superannuation order in respect of a person who has committed a corruption offence can be made in relation to employer benefits accrued during all periods of Commonwealth employment; and

  Customs Act 1901

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Freedom of Information Amendment (Parliamentary Budget Office) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Oct 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  to: provide an exemption for information held by departments and agencies that relates to a confidential request to the Parliamentary Budget Office; provide that the Administrative Review Tribunal may review a decision refusing to grant access to a document claimed to be exempt; and provide that an agency is not required to give information as to the existence or non-existence of a document; and

  Privacy Act 1988

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social and Community Services Pay Equity Special Account (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Oct 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Social and Community Services Pay Equity Special Account Bill 2012, the bill amends the

  COAG Reform Fund Act 2008

  to make an amendment consequential on the creation of the Social and Community Services Pay Equity Special Account. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social and Community Services Pay Equity Special Account Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Oct 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Social and Community Services Pay Equity Special Account (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2012, the bill creates a special account under the

  Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997

  to administer the social and community services award funding adjustments for providers of certain Commonwealth programs that have been identified as having social and community services workers covered by the Fair Work Australia equal remuneration order granted on 1 February 2012. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax Laws Amendment (Clean Building Managed Investment Trust) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Oct 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Act 2008

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to provide a final withholding tax rate of 10 per cent on fund payments from eligible clean building managed investment trusts made to foreign residents in countries with which Australia has effective exchange of information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Federal Circuit Court of Australia Legislation Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Federal Magistrates Act 1999

  to: rename the Federal Magistrates Court as the Federal Circuit Court of Australia; change the titles of Chief Federal Magistrate to Chief Judge and Federal Magistrate to Judge; and amend the long and short titles of the Act; and

  Judges (Long Leave Payments) Act 1979

  ,

  Judges’ Pensions Act 1968

  ,

  Maternity Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1973

  and

  Parliamentary Contributory Superannuation Act 1948

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Water Amendment (Long-term Average Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Water Act 2007

  to: enable the Murray-Darling Basin Authority to make adjustments to the long-term average sustainable diversion limit set by the Murray-Darling Basin Plan; and require the basin plan requirements for accreditation of water resource plans to include a requirement that water resource plans include a mechanism for incorporating and adjusting a relevant change in the limit for that water resource plan area. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Clean Energy (Charges—Customs) Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Climate Change and Energy Efficiency 

  Summary

  Part of a package of seven bills to link Australia’s carbon pricing mechanism to overseas emissions trading schemes from 1 July 2015, the bill amends the

  Clean Energy (Charges—Customs) Act 2011

  to facilitate the removal of the price floor for carbon units by removing the requirement for a minimum auction reserve charge. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum