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• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment Bill 2019, the bill amends the

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

  to: transfer regulatory responsibility for offshore greenhouse gas wells and environmental management from the minister to the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA); strengthen and clarify the powers of NOPSEMA inspectors to monitor and enforce compliance by regulated entities with their obligations under the Act and associated regulations; ensure valid designation of certain areas as 'frontier areas' for the purposes of the Designated Frontier Area tax incentive; make minor policy and technical amendments in relation to the operation of the Act; and remove references to specific titles of regulations, and instead enable references to the titles or provisions of regulations to be prescribed by regulations under the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Anti-Dumping Measures) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Sep 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to: specify additional methodologies by which the minister may determine an export price during a review of anti-dumping measures for exporters who have not exported goods, or have exported low volumes of goods such that the export price cannot be reliably determined, during the period examined for the purpose of the review. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Amendment Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Jun 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Act 1987

  to provide greater flexibility to the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation in its activities, including the use of its property, facilities and resources for science, technology, innovation and training purposes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Petroleum Pools and Other Measures) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Sep 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

  and

  Petroleum Resource Rent Tax Assessment Act 1987

  to ensure the ongoing validity of apportionment agreements, where it becomes apparent that an agreement relates to an area which contains multiple petroleum pools, rather than a single discrete pool; and

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

  to: include a regulation making power to ensure there is a legal basis for the regulations to provide for the refund and remittal of environment plan (EP) levies; provide for the retrospective commencement of this regulation making power to ensure the validity of refunds of EP levies previously made to offshore petroleum titleholders; and clarify that regulations can provide for the remittal and refund of safety case levies. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Country of Origin) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Sep 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to clarify the country of origin labelling requirements by amending the definition of substantial transformation as it applies to the safe harbour provisions and removing the 50 per cent production cost test. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Industry Research and Development Amendment (Innovation and Science Australia) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Sep 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Industry Research and Development Act 1986

  to transition Innovation Australia to become Innovation and Science Australia, an independent body responsible for strategic advice on all industry, innovation, science and research matters; and create a statutory framework to provide legislative authority for Commonwealth spending activities in relation to industry, innovation, science and research programs. Also makes consequential amendments to five Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Mar 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Bill 2016, the bill amends the

  Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Act 1991

  to enable the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation to: assist the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility; assist, on agreement, the states and territories; and charge fees to the facility and the states and territories for the services it provides in performing its functions for them. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Mar 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2016, the bill establishes the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility and a Board of the Facility to make investment decisions for the facility; and provides up to $5 billion in concessional finance over five years to provide financial assistance to state and territory governments to develop economic infrastructure in the Northern Territory and northern parts of Western Australia and Queensland. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Feb 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

  to validate past Joint Authority decisions to grant renewals, or extensions of the term of ‘prior usage rights’ petroleum titles, where the consent of the Minister for the Environment was not sought. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Jobs Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education 

  Summary

  The bill: requires private and public projects with a capital expenditure of $500 million or more to develop an Australian Industry Participation (AIP) plan; establishes the Australian Industry Participation Authority to administer and monitor AIP plan compliance; provides for the appointment, terms and conditions of the authority; provides for staff and consultants; establishes the Australian Industry Participation Advisory Board to advise the authority and the minister as required; provides for the authority’s reporting requirements; requires a review of the operation of the legislation within five years; and requires the minister to present a report of the review to Parliament. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum