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• Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Amendment Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Nov 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment and Energy 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Levy Bill 2016, the bill amends the

  Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989

  to: enable full cost recovery under the hazardous waste permit scheme; remove the requirement for particulars of certain export applications to be specified in the regulations prior to a decision being made; remove the requirement to specify the place of export in a Basel export permit; remove the $8000 cap on the prescribed fee amount for permit applications; enable indexation of permit fees; provide that certain permit and application information currently required to be published in the Commonwealth Gazette will instead be published on the Department of Environment and Energy’s website; introduce new permit and notification arrangements for the bringing of hazardous waste into Australia; enable the minister to delegate any or all of his or her functions and powers under the Act to Executive Level 2 employees; remove the text of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal; provide that permit applications must be accompanied by a levy; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Levy Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Nov 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Environment and Energy 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Amendment Bill 2016, the bill imposes a levy on hazardous waste permit applications under the

  Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Nov 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Health Act 1953

  to: enable the minister, the secretary or the Chief Executive Medicare to arrange for the use of computer programs to make decisions and determinations, exercise powers or comply with obligations and do anything else related to those actions; enable approved pharmacists whose premises have been affected by disaster or exceptional circumstances to supply pharmaceutical benefits at alternative premises in the same locality for a limited period and be paid for claims at the full rate; and ensure that entitlements for concessional beneficiaries and their dependants will apply for pharmaceutical benefits until midnight on the day of a person’s death. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Digital Readiness and Other Measures) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Nov 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans’ Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Military, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  ,

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence-related Claims) Act 1988

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to: enable the secretary to arrange for the use of computer programs to make decisions and determinations, exercise powers or comply with obligations and do anything else related to those actions; enable the secretary to disclose information about a particular case or class of cases where the secretary certifies that it is necessary in the public interest to do so; and enable information sharing between the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission and the Secretary of the Department of Defence or the Chief of the Defence Force;

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence-related Claims) Act 1988

  to amend the short title of the Act once it is enacted; and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Income Tax Rates Amendment (Working Holiday Maker Reform) Bill 2016 (No. 2)

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Nov 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of four bills in relation to tax arrangements for working holiday makers, the bill amends the

  Income Tax Rates Act 1986

  to apply a 15 per cent income tax rate to assessable income derived by working holiday makers on amounts up to $37 000, with ordinary tax rates applying for taxable income exceeding this amount. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Passenger Movement Charge Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Nov 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Passenger Movement Charge Act 1978

  to provide that the rate of passenger movement charge of $60 to apply from 1 July 2017 will not increase for a minimum period of five years from that date. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Nov 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Customs Act 1901

  to: enable regulations to be made to provide that export permits for defence and strategic goods can be revoked where, in the opinion of the Defence Minister, the exportation of those goods would prejudice Australia’s national security, defence or international relations; remove the requirement that the Comptroller-General of Customs enter into an interim trusted trader agreement with an entity; enable the minister to exempt certain persons from liability to pay the import declaration processing charge; extend the circumstances in which an application can be made to move, alter or interfere with goods for export that are subject to customs control; remove certain requirements and clarify provisions in relation to the making of tariff concession orders for made-to-order capital equipment; and remove unnecessary and outdated provisions;

  Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905

  to: enable an officer to inspect and examine imported goods that they believe are goods prescribed by the Commerce (Imports) Regulations 1940; and enable the regulations to prescribe penalties for offences against those regulations; and

  Maritime Powers Act 2013

  to clarify that powers under the Act are able to be exercised in the course of passage through or above the waters of another country in a manner consistent with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Also repeals the

  Customs (Tariff Concession System Validations) Act 1999

  and

  Import Processing Charges (Amendment and Repeal) Act 2002

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Nov 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to: remove the list of countries and places to which special non-reciprocal rates of customs duty apply and instead include it in the Customs Tariff Regulations 2004; remove expired safeguard provisions relating to the Thailand-Australia Free Trade Agreement; clarify the tariff classification of certain fruits, vegetables and pastas; and clarify the end date of the Enhanced Project By-law Scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Statute Update (A.C.T. Self-Government (Consequential Provisions) Regulations) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Nov 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure and Regional Development 

  Summary

  Amends: 18 Acts to incorporate modifications made by the A.C.T. Self-Government (Consequential Provisions) Regulations; and the A.C.T. Self-Government (Consequential Provisions) Regulations to remove certain provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Airports Amendment Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Dec 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure and Transport 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Airports Act 1996

  to: implement a differential master plan submission cycle for federal leased airports (excluding Mount Isa and Tennant Creek); mandate the inclusion of an Australian Noise Exposure Forecast in each new master plan; increase the monetary trigger for major development plans (MDPs) from $20 million to $35 million and enable the minister to review and revise the monetary trigger every three years; specify a 15 business day statutory timeframe within which the minister must consider applications from airport-lessee companies for reduced consultation periods for MDPs, with such applications deemed approved if there is no ministerial decision within this timeframe; enable the minister to extend more than once the period that approved MDPs are required to be substantially completed; enable airport-lessee companies to notify the minister if an approved MDP is not able to proceed on the basis of exceptional circumstances; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum