Search all bills

TOTAL RESULTS: 3785

• Agriculture Legislation Amendment (Streamlining Administration) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Dec 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Biosecurity Act 2015

  and

  Imported Food Control Act 1992

  to enable computerised decision-making for certain purposes. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Wine Australia Amendment (Label Directory) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Dec 2019 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Wine Australia Act 2013

  to provide for Wine Australia to establish and maintain a directory of labels that are attached to grape products such as wine intended for export from Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Crime Commission Amendment (Special Operations and Special Investigations) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Nov 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Crime Commission Act 2002

  ,

  Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement Act 2010

  and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to confirm the validity of current and former special Australian Crime Commission (ACC) operations and special ACC investigations determinations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response—Protecting Consumers (2019 Measures)) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Nov 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Gives effect to certain recommendations of the Financial Services Royal Commission by amending the:

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  (ASIC Act) and

  Insurance Contracts Act 1984

  (IC Act) to enable the unfair contract terms regime under the ASIC Act to apply to insurance contracts covered by the IC Act; ASIC Act and

  Corporations Act 2001

  to specify that the consumer protection provisions of the ASIC Act apply to funeral expenses policies;

  National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009

  and

  National Consumer Credit Protection (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2009

  to: require mortgage brokers to act in the best interests of consumers and give priority to consumers in certain circumstances where there is a conflict of interest; provide that mortgage brokers and mortgage intermediaries must not accept conflicted remuneration; prohibit employers, credit providers and mortgage intermediaries from giving conflicted remuneration to mortgage brokers or mortgage intermediaries; and enable the circumstances in which the prohibition on conflicted remuneration applies to be prescribed by regulation; and

  National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response—Stronger Regulators (2019 Measures)) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Nov 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Gives effect to certain recommendations of the Financial Services Royal Commission by amending the:

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  (ASIC Act) and

  National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009

  to: relocate the existing search warrant powers of the Australian and Securities Investment Commission (ASIC) from across ASIC administered legislation into the ASIC Act; and enhance ASIC's existing search warrant powers by reference to the search warrant powers in the

  Crimes Act 1914

  ;

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to allow ASIC to receive and use interception information for its own investigations and prosecutions of serious offences;

  Corporations Act 2001

  to replace the requirement for obtaining an Australian financial services licence (AFS licence) that a person be of 'good fame and character' with the requirement that they be a 'fit and proper person';

  National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009

  and

  National Consumer Credit Protection (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2009

  to: enable ASIC to cancel an AFS licence if the licensee does not start to provide the relevant financial services within six months after the licence is granted; clarify ASIC's power to suspend or cancel an Australian credit licence if the person does not engage, or ceases to engage, in credit activities; require licensees to notify ASIC if they do not start to provide the financial services or engage in the credit activities covered by the licence within six months of it being granted;

  Corporations Act 2001

  and

  National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009

  to strengthen and broadly align provisions relating to false or misleading statements; and

  Corporations Act 2001

  ,

  National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009

  and

  National Consumer Credit Protection (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2009

  to: expand the grounds on which ASIC can make a banning order against a person; and enable ASIC to make additional types of banning orders to prohibit a person from controlling or performing any or particular functions in relation to a financial services or credit business. Also amends seven Acts to make consequential amendments and provide for transitional arrangements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Student Identifiers Amendment (Enhanced Student Permissions) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Nov 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Student Identifiers Act 2014

  to: allow any entity to request access to an individual's authenticated vocational education and training (VET) transcripts (or extract), where that access is permitted by the access controls set by the individual; and introduce new civil penalties in relation to further applications for student identifiers, alteration of authenticated VET transcripts and representing that a non-authentic document is an authenticated VET transcript (or extract). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications (Regional Broadband Scheme) Charge Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Nov 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer) Bill 2019, the bill establishes an ongoing funding arrangement for fixed wireless and satellite infrastructure (the Regional Broadband Scheme) by imposing a monthly charge on carriers, including NBN Co Ltd, in relation to each premises connected to their network that has an active fixed-line superfast broadband service during the month. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Nov 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Telecommunications (Regional Broadband Scheme) Charge Bill 2019, the bill amends the:

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  and

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  in relation to: Layer 2 bitstream services; and statutory infrastructure providers;

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  and

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  and two legislative instruments in relation to local access lines;

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  ,

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  and

  Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999

  in relation to funding of fixed wireless broadband and satellite broadband; and

  National Broadband Network Companies Act 2011

  to require NBN Co to provide certain data about premises connected, or due to be connected, to the NBN. Also repeals four declarations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Trade Support Loans Amendment (Improving Administration) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Nov 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Trade Support Loans Act 2014

  to: enable the secretary to provide for offsetting arrangements where an amount is wrongly paid as an instalment of a trade support loan (TSL); provide the secretary with a discretion to extend the period for notifying a change of address; and align the minimum periods for TSL recipients to notify the secretary of information under the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Family Law Amendment (Western Australia De Facto Superannuation Splitting and Bankruptcy) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Nov 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Family Law Act 1975

  and

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  to: give effect to a referral of power from Western Australia to the Commonwealth in respect of superannuation matters in family law proceedings for separating de facto couples in Western Australia; extend federal bankruptcy jurisdiction to the Family Court of Western Australia to hear bankruptcy proceedings concurrently with family law proceedings; and provide for transitional arrangements; and 21 Acts to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum