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• Superannuation Laws Amendment (Capital Gains Tax Relief and Other Efficiency Measures) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Superannuation Auditor Registration Imposition Bill 2012, the bill amends: the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Tax Laws Amendment (2009 Measures No. 6) Act 2010

  to reinstate the temporary loss relief for merging superannuation funds with certain modifications; the

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to introduce a registration regime for auditors of self-managed superannuation funds; the

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to expand the information required to be reported by superannuation providers to the Commissioner of Taxation; the

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  and

  Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997

  to facilitate the electronic transmission of payments and associated information between certain funds, schemes and providers by providing for a register to be kept by the Commissioner of Taxation; and five Acts to make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Superannuation Legislation Amendment (Further MySuper and Transparency Measures) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to: require registrable superannuation entities to elect not to charge commissions in respect of amounts held in a MySuper product; make rules governing the charging for financial advice including intrafund advice and the general fee rules to apply to regulated superannuation funds and approved deposit funds; require trustees to transfer certain existing balances of members to MySuper; and require trustees to obtain authorisation from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) to operate an eligible rollover fund;

  Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992

  and

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to: require trustees to provide minimum levels of life and total and permanent disability insurance to members on an opt-out basis; and allow exceptions from MySuper for members of defined benefit funds;

  Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Act 1998

  ,

  Corporations Act 2001

  ,

  Financial Sector (Collection of Data) Act 2001

  and

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to: expand the coverage of APRA’s data collection; enable the publication of MySuper product data; and require certain information to be published;

  Fair Work Act 2009

  ,

  Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992

  and

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to allow only funds that offer a MySuper product and exempt public sector superannuation schemes to be eligible as default funds in modern awards and enterprise agreements; and

  Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997

  ,

  Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992

  and

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax Laws Amendment (2012 Measures No. 5) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to: expand the application of the conservation tillage refundable tax offset by providing that an eligible no-till seeder can comprise just the tool, or the combination of the cart and the tool; phase out the mature age worker tax offset from 1 July 2012 for taxpayers born on or after 1 July 1957; and include The Diamond Jubilee Trust Australia in the list of deductible gift recipients; and

  A New Tax System (Wine Equalisation Tax) Act 1999

  to: provide that a wine producer will not be entitled to the wine equalisation tax producer rebate on other wine they use in manufacture, except where the producer of the other wine notifies the subsequent producer; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Federal Circuit Court of Australia Legislation Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Federal Magistrates Act 1999

  to: rename the Federal Magistrates Court as the Federal Circuit Court of Australia; change the titles of Chief Federal Magistrate to Chief Judge and Federal Magistrate to Judge; and amend the long and short titles of the Act; and

  Judges (Long Leave Payments) Act 1979

  ,

  Judges’ Pensions Act 1968

  ,

  Maternity Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1973

  and

  Parliamentary Contributory Superannuation Act 1948

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Water Amendment (Long-term Average Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Water Act 2007

  to: enable the Murray-Darling Basin Authority to make adjustments to the long-term average sustainable diversion limit set by the Murray-Darling Basin Plan; and require the basin plan requirements for accreditation of water resource plans to include a requirement that water resource plans include a mechanism for incorporating and adjusting a relevant change in the limit for that water resource plan area. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes Legislation Amendment (Serious Drugs, Identity Crime and Other Measures) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Oct 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: transfer the lists of illicit substances from the Criminal Code to the regulations; establish conditions and criteria for listing controlled and border controlled substances in regulations; extend the listing period and refine the criteria to be satisfied before an emergency determination can be made; expand the offence of dealing in identification to include foreign indictable offences; and create an offence in relation to using a carriage service in order to obtain and/or deal with identification information;

  Crimes Act 1914

  and

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to create criminal offences in relation to the use of false identities for the purposes of air travel;

  Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Act 2006

  to: clarify the functions of the Integrity Commissioner in relation to detection and prevention of corruption; widen the commissioner’s scope to consider an Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity corruption issue; and enable the commissioner to delegate the power to conduct public inquiries to an assistant commissioner;

  Crimes Act 1914

  to increase the value of a penalty unit to accommodate increases in the Consumer Price Index and provide for a three-yearly review of the penalty unit;

  Australian Federal Police Act 1979

  and

  Crimes (Superannuation Benefits) Act 1989

  to clarify that a superannuation order in respect of a person who has committed a corruption offence can be made in relation to employer benefits accrued during all periods of Commonwealth employment; and

  Customs Act 1901

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Freedom of Information Amendment (Parliamentary Budget Office) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Oct 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  to: provide an exemption for information held by departments and agencies that relates to a confidential request to the Parliamentary Budget Office; provide that the Administrative Review Tribunal may review a decision refusing to grant access to a document claimed to be exempt; and provide that an agency is not required to give information as to the existence or non-existence of a document; and

  Privacy Act 1988

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social and Community Services Pay Equity Special Account (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Oct 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Social and Community Services Pay Equity Special Account Bill 2012, the bill amends the

  COAG Reform Fund Act 2008

  to make an amendment consequential on the creation of the Social and Community Services Pay Equity Special Account. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social and Community Services Pay Equity Special Account Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Oct 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Social and Community Services Pay Equity Special Account (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2012, the bill creates a special account under the

  Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997

  to administer the social and community services award funding adjustments for providers of certain Commonwealth programs that have been identified as having social and community services workers covered by the Fair Work Australia equal remuneration order granted on 1 February 2012. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax Laws Amendment (Clean Building Managed Investment Trust) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Oct 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Act 2008

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to provide a final withholding tax rate of 10 per cent on fund payments from eligible clean building managed investment trusts made to foreign residents in countries with which Australia has effective exchange of information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum