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• Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Amendment Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Radiocommunications Legislation Amendment (Reform and Modernisation) Bill 2020 and Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence Tax) Amendment Bill 2020, the bill amends the

  Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Act 1983

  to enable the Australian Communications and Media Authority to determine whether, for a specified class of licences with longer than 12 months duration, the receiver licence tax is imposed on the issue of the licence for the full period the licence is in force, or whether it should be paid in annual instalments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence Tax) Amendment Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Radiocommunications Legislation Amendment (Reform and Modernisation) Bill 2020 and Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Amendment Bill 2020, the bill amends the

  Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence Tax) Act 1983

  to enable the Australian Communications and Media Authority to determine whether, for a specified class of licences with longer than 12 months duration, the transmitter licence tax is imposed on the issue of the licence for the full period the licence is in force, or whether it should be paid in annual instalments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Radiocommunications Legislation Amendment (Reform and Modernisation) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Amendment Bill 2020 and Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence Tax) Amendment Bill 2020, the bill amends: the

  Radiocommunications Act 1992

  to: amend the object of the Act; provide for the minister to issue ministerial policy statements which the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) must have regard to in exercising its spectrum management; require ACMA to publish an annual work program covering a minimum five-year period; streamline spectrum allocation and re-allocation processes; extend maximum licence terms for apparatus and spectrum licences, confer certain powers on ACMA to make equipment rules that prescribe standards of equipment and impose obligations or prohibitions in relation to equipment; make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2020

  ; expand ACMA's accreditation, compliance and enforcement, and information-gathering powers; make miscellaneous amendments in relation to ACMA's powers to grant exemptions from penalty provisions, exemptions for Defence related activities, and ACMA's ability to use computer assisted decision making; and extend the maximum duration of spectrum and apparatus licences; the

  Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005

  in relation to annual reporting requirements; the

  Radiocommunications Act 1991

  and four other Acts to repeal the datacasting transmitter licence framework; the

  Radiocommunications Act 1992

  and

  Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005

  to repeal redundant provisions in relation to public inquiries; and five Acts to make consequential or minor amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Recycling and Waste Reduction (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Recycling and Waste Reduction Bill 2020, Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (General) Bill 2020. Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Customs) Bill 2020 and Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Excise) Bill 2020, the bill: repeals the

  Product Stewardship Act 2011

  ; provides for application, saving and transitional provisions relating to product stewardship; enables the minister to make transitional rules; and amends the

  Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020

  to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2020

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Recycling and Waste Reduction Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Recycling and Waste Reduction (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2020, Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (General) Bill 2020, Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Customs) Bill 2020 and Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Excise) Bill 2020, the bill establishes a framework to: regulate the export of waste materials, in line with the agreement to ban the export of waste plastic, paper, glass and tyres by the Council of Australian Governments in 2020; manage the environmental, health and safety impacts of products, in particular those impacts associated with the disposal of products; and provide for voluntary, co-regulatory and mandatory product stewardship schemes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Customs) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Recycling and Waste Reduction Bill 2020, Recycling and Waste Reduction (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2020, Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (General) Bill 2020 and Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Excise) Bill 2020, the bill imposes charges in relation to the export of regulated waste material, so far as those charges are duties of customs. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Excise) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Recycling and Waste Reduction Bill 2020, Recycling and Waste Reduction (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2020, Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (General) Bill 2020 and Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Customs) Bill 2020, the bill imposes charges in relation to the export of regulated waste material, so far as those charges are duties of excise. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (General) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Recycling and Waste Reduction Bill 2020, Recycling and Waste Reduction (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2020, Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Customs) Bill 2020 and Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Excise) Bill 2020, the bill imposes charges in relation to the export of regulated waste material, so far as those charges are neither duties of customs nor duties of excise. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Jobkeeper Payments) Amendment Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Coronavirus Economic Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020

  to enable the extension of the jobkeeper scheme to 28 March 2021 by extending the current time limit on payment rules authorised by the Act;

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to extend the circumstances in which protected information can be disclosed;

  Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus (Measures No. 2) Act 2020

  and

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to: support the extended operation of the jobkeeper scheme; and make consequential amendments; and

  Fair Work Act 2009

  to ensure provisions regarding agreements in relation to the taking of annual leave are repealed on 28 September 2020, as originally intended. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Education Legislation Amendment (Up-front Payments Tuition Protection) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Aug 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Skills and Employment 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Higher Education (Up-front Payments Tuition Protection Levy) Bill 2020 to expand the Tuition Protection Service to include domestic up-front fee paying higher education students, the bill amends the:

  Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011

  to: implement the extension of tuition protection arrangements to apply to domestic students that pay for their tuition fees up-front at a private registered higher education provider; and impose certain obligations on defaulting and replacement providers;

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to: provide for a single Higher Education Tuition Protection Director, Higher Education Tuition Protection Fund and Higher Education Tuition Protection Fund Advisory Board to administer and govern tuition protection for domestic up-front fee paying students and HELP students; authorise the collection, use and disclosure of certain information; and impose certain obligations on defaulting providers; and

  Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000

  ,

  Higher Education Support (HELP Tuition Protection Levy) Act 2020

  ,

  Student Identifiers Act 2014

  and

  VET Student Loans Act 2016

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum