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• 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

• 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

• Statute Law Revision Bill 2012

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  Date

  15 Aug 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends: 78 Acts to correct technical errors; nine Acts to update references to regulations made under the

  Civil Aviation Act 1988

  ; 13 Acts to make amendments consequential on amendments to the

  Acts Interpretation Act 1901

  and the enactment of the

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  ; three Acts to update references to ministers and departments; and 38 Acts to repeal obsolete provisions. Also repeals five Acts and makes amendments to the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  consequential on the repeals. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Smuggled Tobacco) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to create criminal offences for the smuggling of tobacco products and for the conveyance and possession of smuggled tobacco products. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes Legislation Amendment (Slavery, Slavery-like Conditions and People Trafficking) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: insert offences of forced labour, forced marriage, organ trafficking and harbouring a victim; ensure the slavery offence applies to conduct which renders a person a slave, as well as conduct involving a person who is already a slave; extend the application of existing offences of deceptive recruiting and sexual servitude to non-sexual servitude and all forms of deceptive recruiting; increase penalties for debt bondage offences; broaden the definition of exploitation to include all slavery-like practices; and amend existing definitions to provide that the broadest range of exploitative conduct is criminalised;

  Crimes Act 1914

  to increase the availability of reparation orders to individual victims of Commonwealth offences; and

  Crimes Act 1914

  ,

  Migration Act 1958

  ,

  Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

  and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Maritime Powers (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Maritime Powers Bill 2012 to establish a framework for the exercise of maritime enforcement powers, the bill amends five Acts to remove maritime enforcement powers which have been replaced by the proposed

  Maritime Powers Act 2012

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Maritime Powers Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Maritime Powers (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2012 to establish a framework for the exercise of maritime enforcement powers, the bill: establishes a system of authorisations under which a maritime officer may exercise enforcement powers in relation to vessels, installations, aircraft, protected land areas and isolated persons on certain grounds; provides for the enforcement powers available to maritime officers including boarding, obtaining information, searching, detaining, seizing and retaining things, and moving and detaining persons; provides for processes for dealing with things seized, retained or detained and persons held; and creates offences for failure to comply. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Human Rights Commission Amendment (National Children’s Commissioner) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986

  to establish the statutory office of National Children’s Commissioner in the Australian Human Rights Commission to: promote awareness and discussion of issues affecting children; conduct research and education programs; consult directly with children and representative organisations; and examine Commonwealth legislation, policies and programs that relate to children’s human rights. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Legislative Instruments Amendment (Sunsetting Measures) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  to: repeal spent and redundant instruments (including automatic repeal of certain instruments and bulk repeal of instruments by regulation); provide certainty about what instruments sunset and when they sunset, and provide staged sunsetting dates for instruments that were registered in bulk when the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments commenced in 2005; enable the Attorney-General to align sunsetting dates of related legislative instruments to enable thematic reviews to be conducted; and clarify the requirements for explanatory statements; and

  Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum