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• Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Sep 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2018, the bill: establishes the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission to replace the existing Australian Aged Care Quality Agency and Aged Care Complaints Commission from 1 January 2019; provides for the functions, powers, appointment and terms and conditions of the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner; provides for staff of the commission; and establishes the Aged Care Quality and Safety Advisory Council and provides for its functions, membership, procedures, reporting and planning, information sharing and entry and search powers. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Family and Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Sep 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Jobs and Innovation 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to insert an entitlement in the National Employment Standards to five days of unpaid family and domestic violence leave in a 12-month period. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Shipping Registration Amendment Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Sep 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Shipping Registration Act 1981

  to make technical amendments necessary for the remaking of the Shipping Registration Regulations 1981, including: removing provisions requiring the regulations to prescribe the form of shipping registration certificates; removing references to prescribed forms of certificates; and clarifying an appropriate head of power for provisions in the regulations where required. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Supporting Australian Farmers) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Sep 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to allow primary producers to immediately deduct (rather than depreciate over three years) the cost of fodder storage assets, such as silos and hay sheds, used to store grain and other animal feed. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Aviation Transport Security Amendment Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Aviation Transport Security Act 2004

  to enable the secretary to give an aviation industry participant a transport security program that sets out the security requirements they must meet. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Collecting Tobacco Duties at the Border) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to require tobacco importers to pay import duty on tobacco products upon importation into Australia from 1 July 2019, thereby removing the option to enter imported tobacco products into a licensed warehouse without the payment of import duties. Also includes transitional arrangements for the treatment of tobacco products that are still in warehouses on 1 July 2019. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Product Specific Rule Modernisation) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to: streamline the way in which product specific rules of origin of the Singapore-Australia Free Trade Agreement, the Agreement Establishing the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area, the Japan-Australia Economic Partnership Agreement and the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement are given effect domestically; and align the Act with certain free trade agreement provisions which have not yet been given force in domestic legislation. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Corporations Amendment (Strengthening Protections for Employee Entitlements) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Sep 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: strengthen enforcement and recovery options to deter and penalise company directors and other persons who engage in, or facilitate, transactions that are aimed at preventing, avoiding or significantly reducing employer liability for employee entitlements in insolvency; enable the recovery of unpaid employee entitlements of an insolvent company from certain entities in limited circumstances; and enable the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to disqualify company directors and other officers (either directly or on application to the Court), where they have a track record of corporate contraventions and inappropriately using the Fair Entitlements Guarantee scheme to pay outstanding employee entitlements; and

  Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Criminal Code Amendment (Food Contamination) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Sep 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: increase the maximum penalties available for the offences of contaminating goods, threatening to contaminate goods and making false statements about the contamination of good from 10 to 15 years’ imprisonment; introduce new offences with a maximum penalty of 10 years’ imprisonment that apply where a person contaminates goods, threatens to contaminate goods or makes false statements about the contamination of goods and is reckless as to whether their actions cause public alarm or anxiety, economic loss or harm to public health; and expand the meaning of public infrastructure to include foods and services and utilities related to food for the purpose of sabotage offences. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Excise Tariff Amendment (Collecting Tobacco Duties at Manufacture) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Sep 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Treasury Laws Amendment (Black Economy Taskforce Measures No. 2) Bill 2018, the bill amends the

  Excise Tariff Act 1921

  to establish a framework to make excise duty on tobacco due and payable at the time of manufacture. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum