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• Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  In response to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s report in relation to Australian privacy law and practice, the bill amends the

  Privacy Act 1988

  to: replace the current privacy principles for the public and private sectors with a single set of privacy principles (the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs)); implement a comprehensive credit reporting system which includes five kinds of personal information; provide for codes of practice under the APPs and a credit reporting code, including powers for the Privacy Commissioner to develop and register codes that are binding on specified agencies and organisations; and clarify the functions and powers of the Information Commissioner and increase the commissioner’s ability to resolve complaints, recognise and encourage the use of external dispute resolutions services, conduct investigations and promote compliance with privacy obligations. Also makes consequential amendments to 55 Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Parliamentary Counsel and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2012

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  Date

  10 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Parliamentary Counsel Act 1970

  to transfer the functions of the Office of Legislative Drafting and Publishing to the Office of Parliamentary Counsel;

  Acts Publication Act 1905

  and

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  to confer on the First Parliamentary Counsel certain functions previously undertaken by the secretary of the Attorney-General’s Department; and

  Family Law Act 1975

  ,

  Federal Court of Australia Act 1976

  ,

  Federal Magistrates Act 1999

  and

  Judiciary Act 1903

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Interception and Other Legislation Amendment (State Bodies) Bill 2012

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  Date

  22 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Supports the newly established Victorian Independent Board-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) and South Australian Independent Commissioner Against Corruption (ICAC), the Victorian Inspectorate (VI) and the Victorian Public Interest Monitor (PIM) by amending the:

  Crimes Act 1914

  to provide the IBAC with access to items and documents seized by a constable or Commonwealth officer for specific purposes;

  Privacy Act 1988

  to include the IBAC as an enforcement body which is used in the National Privacy Principles in relation to the law enforcement exemptions to the use and disclosure, and access and correction obligations;

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to enable the Australian Taxation Office to disclose taxpayer protected information to the IBAC for certain law enforcement purposes; and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to: enable the IBAC, the ICAC, and the VI to use and communicate existing intercepted information; and enable the PIM to access relevant information and appear at applications for warrants under the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Courts Legislation Amendment (Judicial Complaints) Bill 2012

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  Date

  14 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Judicial Misbehaviour and Incapacity (Parliamentary Commissions) Bill 2012, the bill amends the:

  Family Law Act 1975

  ,

  Federal Court of Australia Act 1976

  and

  Federal Magistrates Act 1999

  to establish a framework to enable the Chief Justices of the Federal Court and the Family Court and the Chief Federal Magistrate to manage complaints that are referred to them; and

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  to exclude documents created through the complaints handling scheme from the operation of the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Law Amendment (Validation of Certain Orders and Other Measures) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  The bill: confers rights and liabilities on all persons who had sought or were granted orders by the Family Court of Australia or the Federal Magistrates Court of Australia in the de facto financial causes jurisdiction and the relevant appellate jurisdiction of the Family Court of Australia between the date the jurisdiction was conferred and when certain proclamations were made; and amends the

  Family Law Act 1975

  to provide that regulations may be made to provide a date from which the jurisdiction of the Family Court of Australia must not be exercised in certain circumstances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Judicial Misbehaviour and Incapacity (Parliamentary Commissions) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Courts Legislation Amendment (Judicial Complaints) Bill 2012, the bill enables parliamentary commissions to be established following a resolution by each House of the Parliament to investigate specified allegations of misbehaviour or incapacity of a specified Commonwealth judicial officer (including a Justice of the High Court of Australia). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Access to Justice (Federal Jurisdiction) Amendment Bill 2011

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  Date

  23 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Federal Court of Australia Act 1976

  to clarify that the Federal Court or judge may make orders for the costs of discovery during litigation and for pre-trial oral examination about discovery; five Acts to clarify the circumstances in which suppression and non-publications orders can be made, what information they can cover and details they should contain; the

  Family Law Act 1975

  ,

  Federal Court of Australia Act 1976

  ,

  Federal Magistrates Act 1999

  and

  Judiciary Act 1903

  to clarify the circumstances in which vexatious proceedings orders can be made and the kinds of orders that can be made, without affecting the courts’ other powers; the

  Family Law Act 1975

  to align the jurisdictional limit for matters heard by family law magistrates in Western Australia with the Federal Magistrates Court; and the

  Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975

  to change the way fees are paid in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Nuclear Terrorism Legislation Amendment Bill 2011

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  Date

  23 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Nuclear Non-Proliferation (Safeguards) Act 1987

  to: create offences for specific conduct prohibited by the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism; and make technical amendments consequential on the

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  ; and

  Extradition Act 1988

  to update an incorrect reference in the definition of ‘Australian aircraft’. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Personal Property Securities Amendment (Registration Commencement) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Oct 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Personal Property Securities Act 2009

  to: provide that the Act commences before the Personal Property Securities national online register is available for public use; and make consequential amendments; and

  Personal Property Securities (Corporations and Other Amendments) Act 2010

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Legislative Instruments Amendment (Sunsetting) Bill 2011

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  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