Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill 2019

Summary

Amends the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009 to: include certain serious criminal offences as a new category of ‘prescribed offence’ for the purposes of the automatic disqualification regime in relation to registered organisations; establish an offence for a disqualified person to continue to act as an official or in a way that influences the affairs of an organisation; allow the Federal Court to disqualify officials from holding office in certain circumstances or if they are otherwise not a fit and proper person; allow the Federal Court to cancel the registration of an organisation on a range of grounds; expand the grounds on which the Federal Court may order remedial action to deal with governance issues in an organisation; expressly provide that the Federal Court may appoint an administrator to an organisation or part of an organisation as part of a remedial scheme; introduce a public interest test for amalgamations of registered organisations; and make minor and technical amendments.

Progress

House of Representatives
Introduced and read a first time	04 Jul 2019
Second reading moved	04 Jul 2019
Second reading debate	29 Jul 2019
Second reading debate	31 Jul 2019
Second reading agreed to	31 Jul 2019
Third reading agreed to	31 Jul 2019

Senate
Introduced and read a first time	31 Jul 2019
Second reading moved	31 Jul 2019
Second reading debate	26 Nov 2019
Second reading debate	27 Nov 2019
Second reading agreed to	27 Nov 2019
Committee of the Whole debate Amendment details: 48 Government, 1 Australian Greens and 11 Pauline Hanson's One Nation agreed to	28 Nov 2019
Negatived in Committee of the Whole	28 Nov 2019

Documents and transcripts

Text of bill

First reading

Explanatory memoranda

Explanatory memorandum

Supplementary explanatory memorandum

Transcript of speeches

Proposed amendments

Senate

Australian Greens [sheet 8844]
FARUQI, Sen Mehreen

Australian Greens [sheet 8842 revised]
FARUQI, Sen Mehreen

Australian Greens [sheet 8837 revised]
FARUQI, Sen Mehreen

Australian Greens [sheet 8805]
FARUQI, Sen Mehreen

Government [sheet RC114]

Jacqui Lambie Network [sheet 8803]
LAMBIE, Sen Jacqui

Pauline Hanson's One Nation [sheet 8975 revised 2]
HANSON, Sen Pauline

Schedules of amendments

No documents at present

Bills digest

Bills Digest

Notes

Referred to Committee (04/07/2019): Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee; Committee report (25/10/2019)
Considered by scrutiny committee (24/07/2019): Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills; Scrutiny Digest 5 of 2019
Considered by scrutiny committee (30/07/2019): Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights; Report 3 of 2019

Helpful information

Text of bill

First reading: Text of the bill as introduced into the Parliament
Third reading: Prepared if the bill is amended by the house in which it was introduced. This version of the bill is then considered by the second house.
As passed by both houses: Final text of bill agreed to by both the House of Representatives and the Senate which is presented to the Governor-General for assent.

Explanatory memoranda

Explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and provides an explanation of the content of the introduced version (first reading) of the bill.
Supplementary explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains amendments proposed by the government to the bill.
Revised explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains the amended version (third reading) of the bill. It supersedes the explanatory memorandum.

Proposed amendments

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Schedules of amendments

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