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• National Emergency Declaration Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the National Emergency Declaration (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2020 to implement a recommendation of the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements, the bill: establishes a framework for the declaration of a national emergency by the Governor-General, on the advice of the Prime Minister; enables ministers to suspend, vary or substitute administrative requirements in legislation they administer in certain circumstances; and enables the Prime Minister to require Commonwealth entities to report on available stockpiles, assets and resources, and options and recommendations to respond to a national emergency. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Regulatory Powers (Standardisation Reform) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends: six Acts to remove current provisions providing for regulatory regimes and apply the standard provisions of the

  Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014

  ; and the

  Regulatory Powers (Standards Provisions) Act 2014

  to make minor amendments to the ability of monitoring powers to be exercised in relation to matters and the descriptions of offence provisions and provisions relating to infringement notices which might apply to the contravention of both a civil penalty and criminal offence provision. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to: introduce data disruption warrants to enable the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) to disrupt data by modifying, adding, copying or deleting data in order to frustrate the commission of serious offences online; and make minor technical corrections; the

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  to introduce network activity warrants to enable the AFP and ACIC to collect intelligence on serious criminal activity by permitting access to the devices and networks used to facilitate criminal activity; the

  Crimes Act 1914

  to: introduce account takeover warrants to enable the AFP and ACIC to take over a person's online account for the purposes of gathering evidence to further a criminal investigation; and make minor amendments to the controlled operations regime to ensure controlled operations can be conducted effectively in the online environment; and 10 Acts to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Amendment (Infrastructure in New Developments) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to: extend the existing prohibition on developers who are constitutional corporations from selling or leasing a building lot or building unit in a new development unless fibre-ready facilities are installed in proximity to the lot or unit to all types of developers, whether incorporated or unincorporated; clarify that a fibre-ready facility must be technically capable of being used in connection with an optical fibre line; and make a technical correction. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Data Availability and Transparency (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Prime MInister 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2020 to implement a scheme to authorise and regulate access to Australian Government data, the bill makes consequential amendments to the

  Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977

  ,

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

  ,

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  and

  Privacy Act 1988

  in relation to the operation of the scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Prime Minister 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Data Availability and Transparency (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2020 to implement a scheme to authorise and regulate access to Australian Government data, the bill: authorises public sector data custodians to share data with accredited users in accordance with specific authorisations, purposes, principles and agreements; specifies the specific responsibilities imposed on data scheme entities; establishes and specifies the functions and powers of the National Data Commissioner as the regulator of the scheme; establishes and specifies the functions and membership of the National Data Advisory Council as an advisory body to the commissioner in relation to sharing and use of public sector data; and establishes the regulation and enforcement framework for the scheme. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Withdrawal from Amalgamations) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industrial Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009

  to establish a process to enable constituent parts of registered organisations that have amalgamated with other organisations to withdraw from the amalgamated organisation outside the current time-limited period of five years post-amalgamation, in specified circumstances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industrial Relations 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fair Work Act 2009

  in relation to: defining casual employment; including a casual conversion entitlement in the National Employment Standards; providing a Casual Employment Information Statement to casual employees; offsetting casual loading amounts against claims for leave and other entitlements in certain circumstances; additional hours for part-time employees; flexible work directions; enterprise agreement making and approval processes; extending the nominal life of greenfields agreements relating to the construction of major projects; the compliance and enforcement framework; Fair Work Commission processes; and consequential amendments;

  Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009

  to provide for the cessation of certain agreement based transitional instruments on 1 July 2022;

  Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Act 2016

  to: enable the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner to accept an enforceable undertaking in relation to a suspected remuneration-related contravention; and require the commissioner to publish certain information in relation to enforcement proceedings;

  Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Act 2016

  and

  Federal Court of Australia Act 1976

  to make consequential amendments; and

  Fair Work Act 2009

  and

  Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2020

  to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2020

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: require financial services providers that receive fees under an ongoing fee arrangement to: provide clients with a document each year which outlines the fees they will be charged and the services they will be entitled to in the following 12 months and which seeks annual renewal for all ongoing fee arrangements; and obtain written consent before fees under an ongoing fee arrangement can be deducted from a client’s account; require a financial services licensee or authorised representative to give a written disclosure of lack of independence where they are authorised to provide personal advice to a retail client; and make consequential amendments; and

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to: provide that a superannuation trustee can only charge advice fees to a member where certain conditions are satisfied; and remove a superannuation trustee’s ability to charge fees under an ongoing fee arrangement for financial product advice from MySuper products. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2020 Measures No. 2) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Dec 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Therapeutic Goods Act 1989

  to: enable pharmacists to substitute a different medicine for one that has been prescribed where there is a serious scarcity of the prescribed medicine; allow the making of regulations to establish a unique device identification database for the traceability and monitoring of medical devices in Australia; enable authorised employees in the Department of Health to obtain and possess prescription medicines, or unapproved therapeutic goods, without contravening state and territory laws; allow the making of regulations to prohibit the import, export, supply or manufacture of therapeutic goods that are prohibited under international agreements; ensure the timely availability of COVID-19 vaccines by enabling the secretary to consent to the importation and supply of registered or listed therapeutic goods that do not have their registration or listing number on the label; make amendments in relation to the operation of the data protection scheme for assessed listed medicines; and make minor and technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum