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• Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  In response to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s report in relation to Australian privacy law and practice, the bill amends the

  Privacy Act 1988

  to: replace the current privacy principles for the public and private sectors with a single set of privacy principles (the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs)); implement a comprehensive credit reporting system which includes five kinds of personal information; provide for codes of practice under the APPs and a credit reporting code, including powers for the Privacy Commissioner to develop and register codes that are binding on specified agencies and organisations; and clarify the functions and powers of the Information Commissioner and increase the commissioner’s ability to resolve complaints, recognise and encourage the use of external dispute resolutions services, conduct investigations and promote compliance with privacy obligations. Also makes consequential amendments to 55 Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Amendment (Scheme Enhancements) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005

  to: allow the minister to determine by legislative instrument details of the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Scheme, particularly in relation to registration of products; introduce civil penalties to mirror existing and amended criminal offences; make administrative changes, including removal of the requirement for gazettal of registration decisions and providing for further five-year reviews of the operation of the scheme; and remove voluntary registration of products. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Citizenship Amendment (Defence Families) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Citizenship 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Citizenship Act 2007

  to enable certain family members of current and future overseas lateral recruits (technical specialists with previous experience in other defence forces) to the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to satisfy the relevant defence service residence requirement and be eligible for conferral of Australian citizenship at the same time as the enlisted ADF member. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Services Amendment (Digital Television) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to provide earlier access, in particular circumstances, to the digital commercial satellite television service known as the Viewer Access Satellite Television (VAST) by: enabling VAST licensees to provide their digital commercial satellite television services to specified external territories; enabling third party digital retransmission services to be taken into account for administering the conditional access scheme for VAST services; requiring licensees in certain licence areas to nominate multiple places against which their time based broadcasting obligations will be assessed; and enabling the minister to vary the date for digital switchover in a licence area or when that area becomes a digital only local market area. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Corporations Amendment (Proxy Voting) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Corporations Act 2001

  to clarify that the chair of an annual general meeting, who is a member of the key management personnel or a closely related party of a key management personnel, is able to vote undirected proxies in the non-binding vote where the shareholder provides their express authorisation for the chair to exercise the proxy. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of two bills in relation to the managed investment trust (MIT) withholding tax, the bill amends the

  Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Act 2008

  to increase the MIT final withholding tax from 7.5 per cent to 15 per cent on fund payments made in the income years commencing on or after 1 July 2012. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Income Tax (Seasonal Labour Mobility Program Withholding Tax) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills in relation to the Seasonal Labour Mobility Program and other taxation matters, the bill imposes a 15 per cent withholding tax on income derived by non-resident workers participating in the program from 1 July 2012. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Marine Safety (Domestic Commercial Vessel) National Law (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure and Transport 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Marine Safety (Domestic Commercial Vessel) National Law Bill 2012, the bill amends the:

  Australian Maritime Safety Authority Act 1990

  to increase the membership of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority board to include one member who has knowledge of, or experience relevant to, the construction or operation of domestic commercial vessels; and proposed

  Marine Safety (Domestic Commercial Vessel) National Law Act 2012

  to amend the general safety obligations in the National Law and align them with those contained in the

  Work Health and Safety Act 2011

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Marine Safety (Domestic Commercial Vessel) National Law Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure and Transport 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Marine Safety (Domestic Commercial Vessel) National Law (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2012, the bill provides for national regulation of the domestic commercial vessel industry in Australia by: establishing the National Marine Safety Regulator; and establishing a National Law for domestic commercial vessel safety. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Navigation (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure and Transport 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Navigation Bill 2012, the bill: repeals the

  Lighthouses Act 1911

  and

  Navigation Act 1912

  ; makes amendments to 28 Acts consequential on the repeal of the

  Navigation Act 1912

  ; and amends the proposed

  Navigation Act 2012

  to include the Maritime Labour Convention. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum