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• National Radioactive Waste Management Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Oct 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Resources, Energy and Tourism 

  Summary

  The bill: allows a Northern Territory Land Council and other parties in a state or territory to volunteer their land for consideration as the location for a national facility for the management of radioactive waste arising from medical, industrial and research uses of radioactive material; repeals the

  Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Act 2005

  ; and makes a consequential amendment to the

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 May 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Bill 2018, the bill amends the:

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to provide that payments made under the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse are exempt from the income test;

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  to ensure that payments made under the national redress scheme are quarantined from the divisible property of a bankrupt person;

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1997

  to exempt decisions made under the national redress scheme from judicial review;

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  to exempt protected information from disclosure under the Act;

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  to enable the use and disclosure of protected information if it is done for the purposes of the national redress scheme; and

  Age Discrimination Act 2004

  to enable the exclusion of children applying to the national redress scheme if they will not turn 18 during the life of the scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Amendment (Funders of Last Resort and Other Measures) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Provides a further response to the final report of the second year review of the National Redress Scheme by amending the

  National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Act 2018

  to: extend the funder of last resort arrangements to encompass non-defunct institutions that are unable to participate in the scheme, and defunct institutions with which participating jurisdictions do not share responsibility for abuse and there is no parent institution to take responsibility; and provide the scheme operator with specific authority to disclose certain protected information about non-participating institutions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Amendment (Technical Amendments) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Oct 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Act 2018

  in relation to the operation of the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse to: clarify how participating institutions that are associates of a responsible institution are to be determined and specified; clarify that where there is more than one funder of last resort, the defunct institution's share of the redress cost is to be divided equally between the government institutions; amend the approval and consultation process in relation to the engagement of an independent decision-maker by a national redress scheme operator; protect the names and symbols used in connection with the scheme; permit a payment to be made to a person who has been appointed by a court, tribunal or board to manage the financial affairs of a person entitled to redress; permit the operator to extend the timeframe for payment of a funding contribution by an institution; authorise the disclosure of certain protected information; and correct minor typographical errors. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Amendment Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Aug 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Implements certain recommendations of the final report of the second year review of the National Redress Scheme by amending the

  National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Act 2018

  to: provide for advance payments of $10 000 to elderly or terminally ill applicants, or where there are other exceptional circumstances for particularly vulnerable people; change the date for which the indexation of relevant prior payments is calculated; extend the acceptance period of a redress offer after it has expired and provide for the period within which to seek a review to be aligned with any extension to the acceptance period; remove the requirement for an application to include a statutory declaration; and provide for redress payments and counselling and psychological care payments to be made in instalments rather than as a lump sum, if requested by an applicant. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 May 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Social Services 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2018, the bill implements the joint response of the Commonwealth Government, the government of each participating state and territory, and each participating non-government institution to recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse’s

  Redress and Civil Litigation Report

  by: establishing the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse to operate for a 10-year period from 1 July 2018; providing a payment of up to $150 000 to survivors; providing access to counselling and psychological services to survivors; and providing an option for survivors to receive a direct personal response from the responsible institution. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Rental Affordability Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Sep 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Rental Affordability Scheme Bill 2008, the bill amends the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  in relation to entities participating in the scheme to: enable entities to claim a refundable tax offset; ensure that state and territory contributions to entities are non-assessable and non-exempt income for taxation purposes; and ensure that there are no capital gains tax consequences from the receipt of incentives under the scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Rental Affordability Scheme Amendment Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families and Social Services 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Rental Affordability Scheme Act 2008

  to: expand and clarify the object of the National Rental Affordability Scheme; expressly identify the constitutional powers being relied upon and giving the Act operation within the scope of those constitutional powers; and expand and clarify the power to make regulations under the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Rental Affordability Scheme Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Sep 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Housing 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Rental Affordability Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008, the bill provides for regulations to prescribe the National Rental Affordability Scheme which will provide refundable tax offsets or cash payment incentives to providers of new dwellings on the condition that they are rented to low and moderate income households at 20 per cent below market rates. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Residue Survey (Customs) Levy Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Mar 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2003, the bill amends the

  National Residue Survey (Customs) Levy Act 1998

  to insert the current operative levy rate of 0.3 cent and increase the maximum levy rate to 0.6 cent per kilogram for honey exported from Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum