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• Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Legislation Amendment (Further 2007 Budget Measures) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Jun 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the family assistance and taxation laws in relation to: the pension bonus scheme; the assurance of support scheme for migrants; crisis payments to qualifying humanitarian visa entrants; the threshold for funeral investments exempt from the income and assets test; and extending the payment of multiple birth allowance to children under 16 years of age and to children who are undertaking full-time study until they turn 18. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Health Amendment (National HPV Vaccination Program Register) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Jun 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Health Act 1953

  to establish a National Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination Program Register to facilitate the implementation of the National HPV Program. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Amendment (2007 Measures No. 1) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Jun 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Workforce Participation 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  in relation to: mobility allowance for those persons undertaking vocational rehabilitation, receiving parenting payment or working at least 15 hours per week under the supported wage system; qualification for youth allowance; access to certain benefits and concessions for partnered parenting payment recipients with a partial capacity to work; eligibility for certain allowances for persons with at least 14 per cent care of a child; parenting payment participation requirements; the activity test for newstart allowance; and makes a technical correction. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Therapeutic Goods Amendment Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Jun 2007 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Therapeutic Goods Act 1989

  ,

  Therapeutic Goods Amendment Act (No. 1) 2006

  and

  Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Medical Devices) Act 2002

  to extend transitional registration arrangements for certain patient treatment devices beyond 4 October 2007 to enable reassessment by the Therapeutic Goods Administration prior to entry in Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods as ‘included’ devices. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Trade Practices Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Jun 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Trade Practices Act 1974

  to: create a second Deputy Chairperson position at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission; clarify the operation of the misuse of market power and unconscionable conduct provisions; and makes consequential amendments to the

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  , in relation to the application of the unconscionable conduct rules to the supply and acquisition of financial products and services. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• International Trade Integrity Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Jun 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Charter of the United Nations Act 1945

  and

  Customs Act 1901

  to: strengthen the enforcement of United Nations Security Council sanctions and introduce an offence regime; and the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  in relation to bribery of foreign officials. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Judges' Pensions Amendment Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Jun 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Judges’ Pensions Act 1968

  to insert a definition of ‘salary’ for pension purposes; and remedy technical deficiencies in the superannuation surcharge formula in relation to: reduced rates of surcharge in 2003-04 and 2004-05; treatment of invalidity and death benefits; and payments made to discharge in part a judge’s surcharge debt. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Jun 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Following government endorsement of the recommendations of the Review of the Regulation of Access to Communications (the Blunn Report), the bill amends the

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  in relation to: access to telecommunications data for national security and law enforcement purposes; and makes consequential amendments to five other Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Wheat Marketing Amendment Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Jun 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Wheat Marketing Act 1989

  and Financial Management and Accountability Regulations 1997 in relation to: information-gathering and investigative powers of the Wheat Export Authority (WEA); extension of the minister’s veto power over non-AWB (International) Ltd bulk exports; ministerial power to change the holder of the single desk export privilege; deregulation of exports in bags and containers; and structural and governance reforms of the WEA including renaming it as the Export Wheat Commission. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Amendment (Cosmetics) Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Jun 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989

  to: regulate cosmetics by enabling the minister to make standards for cosmetic products that are imported into, or manufactured in, Australia; create a criminal offence for importing or manufacturing in Australia a cosmetic that does not meet the standard; and makes minor technical changes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum