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• Legislative Instruments Amendment (Sunsetting) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  to provide that legislative instruments remain in force for 10 years following registration (rather than commencement) on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  to: enable parenting payment recipients to transfer temporarily to bereavement allowance following the death of a partner; remove the family member exemption from the two-year newly arrived resident’s waiting period before special benefit is payable; enable the minister to make legislative instruments determining Impairment Tables and rules relating to the tables; and clarify that payments made by an employer to an employee in lieu of notice of termination are regarded as redundancy payments for the purposes of the social security payments;

  Disability Services Act 1986

  to provide that disability advocacy services compliance with new Disability Advocacy Standards will be assessed by an independent certification body over a three-year cycle; and

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  in relation to certain asset-test exempt income streams and the provision of actuarial certificates. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Superannuation Legislation Amendment (Early Release of Superannuation) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997

  and

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to transfer the administration of making determinations relating to the early release of superannuation benefits on compassionate grounds to the Chief Executive Medicare; and

  Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Act 1998

  to provide that the administration of making determinations relating to the early release of superannuation benefits on compassionate grounds continues to be funded by superannuation industry levies. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tobacco Plain Packaging Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Trade Marks Amendment (Tobacco Plain Packaging) Bill 2011, the bill prevents tobacco advertising and promotion of tobacco products and tobacco product packaging by making it an offence to sell, supply, purchase, package or manufacture tobacco products or packaging for retail sale that are not compliant with plain packaging requirements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Trade Marks Amendment (Tobacco Plain Packaging) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Innovation, Industry, Science and Research 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Tobacco Plain Packaging Bill 2011, the bill amends the

  Trade Marks Act 1995

  to provide that regulations may be made in relation to the plain packaging of tobacco so that businesses are not prevented from registering new trade marks or from protecting trade marks against infringement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Work Health and Safety (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Work Health and Safety Bill 2011, the bill: repeals the

  Occupational Health and Safety Act 1991

  ; makes arrangements for transition to the new occupational health and safety laws; and amends the

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988

  and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Work Health and Safety Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Work Health and Safety (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Bill 2011, the bill implements the Model Work Health and Safety Bill (the model bill) within the Commonwealth jurisdiction to form part of a system of nationally harmonised occupational health and safety laws which will apply to businesses and undertakings conducted by the Commonwealth, public authorities, and transitionally, non-Commonwealth licensees. State and territory governments, together with the Commonwealth, signed the Intergovernmental Agreement for Regulatory and Operational Reform in Occupational Health and Safety which commits the jurisdictions to implement the model laws by December 2011. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (Fair Protection for Firefighters) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Sponsor

  BANDT, Adam, MP
  BROADBENT, Russell, MP
  VAMVAKINOU, Maria, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988

  to create a legal presumption that, if a firefighter has been employed for a certain period before being diagnosed with one of seven primary site cancers, the employment is taken to have been the dominant cause of the contraction of the cancer. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Indigenous Affairs Legislation Amendment Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jun 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976

  to enable certain parcels of land to be granted to relevant Aboriginal Land Trusts;

  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005

  to: remove the connection between the election of members to the Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA) and Queensland local government elections; and allow for changes to be made to the composition of the TSRA, following a governance review. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Cybercrime Legislation Amendment Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Jun 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Facilitates Australia’s accession to the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime by amending the:

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to require carriers and carriage service providers to preserve stored communications when requested by certain domestic agencies or when requested by the Australian Federal Police on behalf of certain foreign countries;

  Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987

  and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to: ensure that a foreign country can secure access to stored computer data, including preserved data; and allow a stored communication warrant to be obtained for foreign law enforcement purposes;

  Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987

  ,

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to: enable existing telecommunications data to be provided to a foreign law enforcement agency on a police to police basis; and enable the collection of prospective telecommunications data for foreign law enforcement purposes in certain circumstances;

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to provide that carriers and carriage service providers can recover costs incurred when assisting foreign law enforcement agencies;

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to provide that computer offences are consistent with the convention; and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to: create confidentiality requirements in relation to authorisations to disclose telecommunications data; and expand offence provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum