Search all bills

TOTAL RESULTS: 3785

• Transport Security Legislation Amendment (2010 Measures No. 1) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Mar 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Aviation Transport Security Act 2004

  to: allow the prohibited items list to be made by legislative instrument; and enable the secretary to delegate powers and functions to a Senior Executive Service (SES) officer in the Attorney-General’s Department; and

  Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003

  to: exempt ship operators from certain security requirements in certain circumstances; make regulations to define different classes of passenger ships and to enable screening officers to conduct frisk searches of passengers and crew; enable certain persons to be appointed as security assessment inspectors; enable the secretary to delegate powers and functions to agency heads and certain SES officers in other agencies in certain circumstances; and make amendments in relation to image recording powers. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Personal Property Securities (Corporations and Other Amendments) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Mar 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: provide for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission register of company charges to be closed; amend terminology relating to certain transactions which create security interests; and extend the concept of property; the

  Personal Property Securities Act 2009

  to simplify certain transitional provisions; and 10 Acts to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security Amendment (Flexible Participation Requirements for Principal Carers) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Mar 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Social Security Act 1991

  to extend participation requirement exemptions to parents receiving certain income support payments who have school-aged children and are required to report approved activities to Centrelink. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Entitlements Amendment (Income Support Measures) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Mar 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans’ Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to: remove redundant references and provisions relating to ‘benevolent homes’; exempt from the veterans’ entitlements exemption test payments associated with expenses for part-time work experience under a labour market program; require partners of persons claiming or receiving a service pension or income support to claim a comparable foreign pension; provide that arrears payments of comparable foreign pensions are treated as periodic payments; and clarify that the value of certain superannuation investments are not disregarded for the purposes of deemed income rules and asset deprivation rules. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Recreational Fishing for Mako and Porbeagle Sharks) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment, Heritage and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to provide that it is not an offence to kill, injure, take, trade, keep or move longfin mako, shortfin mako and porbeagle sharks in or from Commonwealth waters when that action is taken during recreational fishing. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Anti-People Smuggling and Other Measures Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  and

  Migration Act 1958

  to create and harmonise offences and penalties in relation to people smuggling;

  Migration Act 1958

  ,

  Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

  ,

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to make consequential amendments;

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

  to enable the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to carry out its intelligence functions in relation to border security issues; and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to: enable foreign intelligence to be collected in certain circumstances; and clarify that only the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Foreign Affairs can advise the Attorney-General on the need to issue a warrant for the collection of foreign intelligence. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Early Childhood Education, Childcare and Youth 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Management System and Other Measures) Act 2007

  in relation to business continuity payments;

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  in relation to: the provision of statements by child care services to certain individuals; the secretary exercising discretion to suspend a child care service approval for child care benefit; and increasing the notification period when a child care service ceases operation; and

  Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Management System and Other Measures) Act 2007

  in relation to: the recovery of over advances of child care benefit to child care services; and the appropriation of funds to enable final acquittal payments to be made to child care services. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Health Practitioner Regulation (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Crimes Act 1914

  and

  Health Insurance Act 1973

  to: make amendments consequential on the implementation of the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme for the Health Professions; and provide for transitional arrangements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Antarctic Treaty (Environment Protection) Amendment Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment, Heritage and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Antarctic Treaty (Environment Protection) Act 1980

  to implement Australia’s international obligations arising from revisions made to Annex II to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (the Madrid Protocol), which relates to native flora and fauna. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Corporations (Fees) Amendment Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Feb 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Corporations Amendment (Financial Market Supervision) Bill 2010, the bill amends the

  Corporations (Fees) Act 2001

  to enable the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to impose fees on market licensees in relation to its market supervisory functions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum