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• Wool International Amendment Bill 1998

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Nov 1998 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry portfolio 

  Summary

  This bill has been registered under the wrong bill number. The correct bill no. for this bill is 98159 (159/98) 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Farm Household Support Amendment (Debt Waiver) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Jun 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Water and the Environment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Farm Household Support Act 2014

  to waive the repayment of certain classes of debts for farm household allowance (FHA) recipients arising from the business income reconciliation process for FHA payments between 1 July 2015 and 30 June 2020. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Biosecurity Amendment (Clarifying Conditionally Non-prohibited Goods) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Mar 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Water and the Environment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Biosecurity Act 2015

  to clarify the validity of certain determinations that specify that certain classes of goods are conditionally non-prohibited goods which must not be brought or imported into Australian territory unless they are covered by an import permit or unless alternative conditions specified in the determination are complied with. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Amendment Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Mar 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Water and the Environment 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989

  to: implement Australia's obligations under the Basel Convention on the Control or Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal; apply the standard provisions of the

  Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014

  and insert new audit powers; update existing criminal offences and introduce new strict liability offences and civil penalties to cover non-compliance relating to the export, import and transit of hazardous waste; increase penalties for offences relating to the export, import and transit of hazardous waste and introduce new aggravated offences where the non-compliance results in injury or damage to human beings or the environment; authorise information sharing between Commonwealth, state and territory governments; introduce recordkeeping requirements and information gathering powers to protect, use and disclose information; and replace the Hazardous Waste Technical Group with a requirement to consult with persons with appropriate expertise; and

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Sydney Harbour Federation Trust Amendment Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Mar 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Water and the Environment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Sydney Harbour Federation Trust Act 2001

  to: implement certain recommendations of the

  Independent Review of the Sydney Harbour Federal Trust

  by enabling the Harbour Trust to operate as an ongoing entity, amending processes relating to the appointment of members, increasing the threshold for ministerial approval of contracts to $5 million and providing for indexation of the threshold amount, and amending the processes for entering into long-term leases or licences; extend the existing regulation-making powers; establish compliance and enforcement powers; and make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2021

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Biosecurity Amendment (Strengthening Penalties) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Feb 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Water and the Environment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Biosecurity Act 2015

  to increase the civil and criminal penalty amounts for contraventions of certain key requirements relating to the assessment and management of biosecurity risks of goods that are brought or imported into Australian territory, and the carrying out of biosecurity activities in accordance with an approved arrangement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Export Control Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Nov 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Water and the Environment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Export Control Act 2020

  to: clarify the circumstances where a fit and proper person test is required for an application to vary a registration of an establishment, or to approve an alteration of an establishment; enable the rules to prescribe circumstances where the secretary may approve or refuse to approve a notice of intention to export prescribed goods; provide the secretary with the power to prescribe requirements in the rules for determining whether to issue or to refuse to issue an export permit; enable the rules to modify how certain provisions in the Act and the

  Administrative Appeals Tribunals Act 1975

  apply to reviewable decisions for tariff rate quotas; and enable the rules to apply matters contained in any instrument of a foreign country that sets out, or provides a method for calculating, the tariff rate quota for the importation of a kind of goods into that country. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Biosecurity Amendment (Traveller Declarations and Other Measures) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Jun 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Water and the Environment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Biosecurity Act 2015

  to: enable regulations to prescribe different penalty amounts for infringement notices issued for different kinds of alleged contraventions; clarify that the regulations may prescribe different periods of time to pay an infringement notice depending on the kind of goods or class of goods to which an alleged contravention relates; enable the Director of Biosecurity to determine goods or classes of goods that can attract a higher infringement notice amount and provide that the determination is not disallowable; and enable the regulations to incorporate references to the determination as in force from time to time. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Charges and Levies Legislation Amendment (Sheep and Lamb) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Jun 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Water and the Environment 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Excise Levies Legislation Amendment (Sheep and Lamb) Bill 2020, the bill amends the

  National Residue Survey (Customs) Levy Act 1998

  and

  Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999

  to align the definition of 'lamb' for the purposes of imposing certain levies and charges that are duties of customs with the definition used for export and industry purposes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Excise Levies Legislation Amendment (Sheep and Lamb) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Jun 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Water and the Environment 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Charges and Levies Legislation Amendment (Sheep and Lamb) Bill 2020, the bill amends the

  National Residue Survey (Customs) Levy Act 1998

  and

  Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999

  to align the definition of 'lamb' for the purposes of imposing certain levies and charges that are duties of excise with the definition used for export and industry purposes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum