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• Disability Discrimination Amendment Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Disability Discrimination Act 1992

  to allow the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, in consultation with the National Transport Secretariat, to grant exemptions from disability standards dealing with public transportation services and facilities. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Services Reform (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2002 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997

  to ensure that a Retirement Savings Account provider can comply with proposed regulations (provided for by the

  Family Law Legislation Amendment (Superannuation) Act 2001

  ) in relation to division of superannuation interests on marriage breakdown; and

  Corporations Act 2001

  in relation to: anti-hawking provisions; insider trading exceptions; definition of “financial products”; and to correct certain drafting errors. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Higher Education Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Science and Training 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Higher Education Funding Act 1988

  to establish the Bridging for Overseas-Trained Professionals Loan Scheme to assist overseas trained professionals to cover the costs of bridging training. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Income Tax (Superannuation Payments Withholding Tax) Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Taxation Laws Amendment (Superannuation) Bill (No. 1) 2002, the bill imposes a tax on superannuation entitlements paid to temporary residents permanently departing Australia (the “departing Australia superannuation payment”). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Interstate Road Transport Charge Amendment Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Transport and Regional Services 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Road Transport Charges (Australian Capital Territory) Amendment Bill 2002, the bill amends the

  Interstate Road Transport Charge Act 1985

  to ensure that an automatic annual adjustment is applied to the level of charges for vehicles registered under the Federal Interstate Registration Scheme, by reference to the percentage amount determined for the purposes of the charge under the

  Road Transport Charges (Australian Capital Territory) Act 1993

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Marriage Amendment Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Marriage Act 1961

  to: reform the Marriage Celebrants Program, primarily to raise the level of professional standards required of celebrants and have them promote pre-marriage and other relationship education services, including the creation of the Registrar of Marriage Celebrants, and review of certain decisions by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal; and make technical amendments in relation to: the Notice of Intended Marriage; passports as a means of identification; authorisation of a shortened timeframe between lodgment of a Notice of Intended Marriage and the marriage; and removal of redundant provisions. Also contains transitional provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Amendment Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Act 1997

  to increase the upper limit for the charge imposed by regulations for registration applications by migration agents. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Legislation Amendment (Migration Agents) Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the regulatory scheme for the migration advice industry and migration agents in the

  Migration Act 1958

  , in relation to investigation of complaints, re-registration and the scope of the scheme. Also contains application provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Ministers of State Amendment Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Administration 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Ministers of State Act 1952

  to increase the limit on the sum appropriated from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the payment of salaries of Ministers. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence Tax) Amendment Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Information Technology and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence Tax) Act 1983

  to correct an anomaly in the Act by clarifying the power to impose a tax on the issue of a transmitter licence where there has been no application for that licence. Also validates the imposition of the tax on licences that have been affected by the anomaly. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum