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• Workplace Relations Amendment (Agreement Validation) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Nov 2004 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Workplace Relations Act 1996

  to ensure the validity of agreements which were certified, approved or varied under the Act prior to the High Court’s decision on 2 September 2004 in

  Electrolux Home Products Pty Ltd v The Australian Workers’ Union and Others

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Crime Commission Amendment Bill 2003 [2004]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Dec 2003 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Crime Commission Act 2002

  to facilitate the transition from the National Crime Authority to the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) by addressing transitional and other issues which have arisen since the establishment of the ACC on 1 January 2003;

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977

  to exempt certain decisions from being subject to requests for statements of reasons; and

  Australian Postal Corporation Act 1989

  to allow disclosure of certain information and documents to the ACC. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Federal Police and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Dec 2003 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Justice and Customs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Federal Police Act 1979

  to complete the integration of the Australian Protective Service into the Australian Federal Police (AFP); and

  Australian Federal Police Act 1979

  and

  Crimes Act 1914

  to enable the AFP to investigate State offences which have a federal aspect. Also makes consequential amendments to 11 other Acts, repeals the

  Australian Protective Service Act 1987

  and contains transitional and application provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fisheries Legislation Amendment (Compliance and Deterrence Measures and Other Matters) Bill 2003 [2004]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Dec 2003 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fisheries Administration Act 1991

  and

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  in relation to: deterrence and compliance regimes to deter foreign fishers from illegally fishing in Australian waters; the Australian Fisheries Management Authority’s management of Commonwealth fisheries resources; and ecologically sustainable management of Commonwealth fisheries. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Norfolk Island Amendment Bill 2003 [2004]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Dec 2003 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Local Government, Territories and Roads 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Norfolk Island Act 1979

  to align electoral arrangements in Norfolk Island more closely to those of other Australian parliaments, including those of the other self-governing Territories. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fisheries Legislation Amendment (High Seas Fishing Activities and Other Matters) Bill 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Nov 2003 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fisheries Administration Act 1991

  and

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  to give effect to Australia’s obligations under the Agreement to Promote Compliance with International Conservation and Management Measures by Fishing Vessels on the High Seas; and

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  to strengthen the Australian Fisheries Management Authority’s ability to deliver and enforce fisheries management in Commonwealth fisheries. Also contains a saving provision. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Quarantine Amendment (Health) Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Aug 2003 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Quarantine Act 1908

  in relation to: health clearances for incoming overseas vessels; independent medical assessments; vector monitoring and control activities; creation of vector control offence and penalty provisions; insertion and repeal of certain definitions; removal of certain outdated references; clarification that a person can be quarantined on the basis of a quarantine officer’s reasonable suspicion of infection or exposure; and provision that persons released under quarantine surveillance cannot be apprehended. Also contains savings and application provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Protective Service Amendment Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Jun 2003 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Justice and Customs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Protective Service Act 1987

  to: confer additional powers on Australian Protective Service (APS) officers in relation to requests for personal identification and information, and search and seizure powers; and ensure that the powers for both the Australian Federal Police and the APS are consistent when operating in the same locations under the same circumstances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health and Ageing Legislation Amendment Bill 2003 [2004]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Mar 2003 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  National Health Act 1953

  to: increase the maximum number of members of Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee; provide for payment and/or waiver of recovery of 90 per cent of the value of pharmaceutical benefits supplied from an unapproved relocated pharmacy where the pharmacist has subsequently obtained approval; allow an agent to make and sign an application for a pharmaceutical benefits scheme (PBS) safety net concession or entitlement card; provide that certain ministerial determinations apply to the supply of pharmaceutical benefits by hospitals in the same way as they do to supply by pharmacies; clarify the decision-maker’s discretion to cancel approvals to supply pharmaceutical benefits; and allow a medical services provider to send claims directly to the Health Insurance Commission;

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  ,

  Health Insurance Commission Act 1973

  ,

  National Health Act 1953

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to provide that special supply arrangements can be used for the funding particular medicines not available through the PBS;

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to restore specialist recognition status for certain specialists; and ensure that overseas trained doctors do not receive Medicare benefits for assisting at operations unless they have an exemption or have committed themselves to providing services in districts of workforce shortage; and

  Aged Care Act 1997

  and

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to make technical amendments and corrections. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Mar 2003 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Health and Other Services (Compensation) Act 1995

  to clarify the circumstances under which medicare and residential care benefits paid to compensation claimants can be recovered; and

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to expand the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register to include previous foreign immunisation of children where these are notified to the Health Insurance Commission by recognised immunisation providers or prescribed bodies; and update certain definitions. Also makes consequential amendments to the

  Health and Other Services (Compensation) Care Charges Act 1995

  and contains application provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum