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• Building and Construction Industry (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Aug 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Bill 2013, the bill: repeals the

  Fair Work (Building Industry) Act 2012

  ; makes consequential amendments to the

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977

  ,

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  and

  Jurisdiction of Courts (Cross-Vesting) Act 1987

  ; amends the proposed

  Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Act 2013

  as a consequence of new Australian Privacy Principles; and provides for transitional arrangements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Aug 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Building and Construction Industry (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2013, the bill: re-establishes the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner (ABC Commissioner) and the Australian Building and Construction Commission; enables the minister to issue a Building Code; provides for the appointment and functions of the Federal Safety Commissioner; prohibits certain unlawful industrial action; prohibits coercion, discrimination and unenforceable agreements; provides the ABC Commissioner with powers to obtain information; provides for orders for contraventions of civil remedy provisions and other enforcement powers; and makes miscellaneous amendments in relation to self-incrimination, protection of liability against officials, admissible records and documents, protection and disclosure of information, powers of the Commissioner in certain proceedings, and jurisdiction of courts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Aug 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Excise Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2016, the bill amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to increase the rate of excise-equivalent customs duty on tobacco and tobacco products through a series of four annual increases of 12.5 per cent, commencing on 1 September 2017. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Excise Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Aug 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2016, the bill amends the

  Excise Tariff Act 1921

  to increase the rate of excise duty on tobacco and tobacco products through a series of four annual increases of 12.5 per cent, commencing on 1 September 2017. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Aug 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fair Work Act 2009

  and

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to: establish the Registered Organisations Commission and provide it with investigation and information gathering powers to monitor and regulate registered organisations; and provide for the appointment, functions and powers of the commissioner (who will assume the investigations, enforcement advice and assistance responsibilities in relation to registered organisations currently undertaken by the General Manager of the Fair Work Commission); and

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to: amend the requirements on officers’ disclosure of material personal interests and change grounds for disqualification and ineligibility for office; increase financial accounting and disclosure obligations for registered organisations and their officers; and increase civil penalties and introduce criminal offences for serious breaches of officers’ duties and new offences in relation to the conduct of investigations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Respect for Emergency Services Volunteers) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Aug 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to amend the definition of unlawful terms to include an objectionable emergency management term that cannot be included in an enterprise agreement that covers a designated emergency management body; and provide that certain volunteer bodies can make submissions to the Fair Work Commission in relation to enterprise agreements or workplace determinations that affect, or could affect, the volunteers of a designated emergency management body. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Cancer Screening Register (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Aug 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016, the bill amends the:

  Australian Immunisation Register Act 2015

  to authorise the disclosure of specified information kept on the Australian Immunisation Register to the National Cancer Screening Register;

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  to exempt register information from disclosure in response to a freedom of information request; and

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to enable the ongoing provision of Medicare enrolment and claims data to the register. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Aug 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Cancer Screening Register (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016, the bill: establishes the National Cancer Screening Register, a national electronic infrastructure for the collection, storage, analysis and reporting of cancer screen program data for the National Cervical Screening Program and the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program; authorises the collection, use and disclosure of information for the purposes of the register; creates an offence for the unauthorised disclosure of information; and mandates reporting of screening information to the register. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Amendment Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Aug 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991

  to enable levy and charge payer information to be provided to rural research and development corporations for the purpose of developing levy payer registers; and the

  Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Act 1997

  ,

  Dairy Produce Act 1986

  and

  National Residue Survey Administration Act 1992

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Country of Origin) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Sep 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to clarify the country of origin labelling requirements by amending the definition of substantial transformation as it applies to the safe harbour provisions and removing the 50 per cent production cost test. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum