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• Criminal Code Amendment (Prohibition of Full Face Coverings in Public Places) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LAMBIE, Sen Jacqui 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to prohibit the wearing of full face coverings in public places under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth if the threat level under the National Terrorism Threat Advisory System is higher than ‘possible’. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Nov 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: enable the receipt of funds from terrorist organisations for legal assistance in certain circumstances; enable control orders to be imposed on persons from 14 years of age; impose an obligation on a person subject to a requirement to wear a tracking device to maintain the tracking device in good operational order; remove the authority of the Family Court of Australia to issue control orders and preventative detention orders (PDOs); clarify the meaning of ‘imminence’ for the purposes of obtaining a PDO; and create a new offence prohibiting conduct advocating genocide;

  Crimes Act 1914

  ,

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to establish regimes to monitor the compliance of individuals subject to a control order through search warrants, surveillance device warrants and telecommunications interception warrants;

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

  to enable the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to furnish security assessments directly to states and territories;

  Classification (Publication, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995

  to broaden the range of conduct that may be considered as advocating the doing of a terrorist act;

  Crimes Act 1914

  to clarify the threshold requirements for the issue of a delayed notification search warrant;

  National Security Information (Criminal and Civil Proceedings) Act 2004

  to: broaden protections for national security information in control order proceedings; enable a court to make an order that is inconsistent with regulations made under the Act if the Attorney-General has applied for the order; and enable the regulations to continue to apply to the extent they provide for ways of dealing with national security information in criminal and civil proceedings;

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to enable the disclosure of certain information; and

  Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975

  and

  Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Independent National Security Legislation Monitor (Improved Oversight and Resourcing) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2014 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WRIGHT, Sen Penny 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Independent National Security Legislation Monitor Act 2010

  to: enable the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor to review proposed counter-terrorism and national security legislation; require the monitor to consider whether counter-terrorism and national security legislation is a proportionate response to the national security threat faced; enable Legal and Constitutional Affairs Senate committees and the Human Rights Commission to refer matters to the monitor for inquiry; require for all reports of the monitor to be tabled and the government to respond to any recommendations within six months; ensure that the position of monitor is a full time position; establish the Office of the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor as a statutory agency and a listed entity; and provide for staff; and

  Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986

  to enable the Human Rights Commission to refer matters to the monitor for inquiry. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Superannuation Legislation Amendment (Reducing Illegal Early Release and Other Measures) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Nov 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Income Tax Rates Amendment (Unlawful Payments from Regulated Superannuation Funds) Bill 2012, the bill amends the:

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to provide for civil and criminal penalties for persons who promote a scheme that has resulted, or is likely to result, in the illegal early release of superannuation benefits;

  Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006

  to require that superannuation benefits that are rolled over into self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) are captured as a designated service; and

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to provide for administrative directions and penalties for contraventions relating to SMSFs. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Anti-Money Laundering Amendment (Gaming Machine Venues) Bill 2012 [2013]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Oct 2012 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006

  to: provide that poker machine payouts of more than $1000 and the cashing of transferred cheques are threshold transactions which are reportable to the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre; require gaming machine venues to issue cheques for payouts of winnings or gaming machine credits over $1000 with an indication that they have been issued for that purpose; and impose penalties for failure to issue cheques in those circumstances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Assisting Victims of Overseas Terrorism Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BRANDIS, Sen George 

  Summary

  Establishes a framework to provide financial assistance to persons or their next of kin who are injured or killed as a result of an international terrorist act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Assisting the Victims of Overseas Terrorism Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Feb 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  ABBOTT, Tony, MP 

  Summary

  Establishes a framework to provide financial assistance to persons or their next of kin who are injured or killed as a result of an international terrorist act. 

  Bill

• Assisting Victims of Overseas Terrorism Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Nov 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BRANDIS, Sen George 

  Summary

  Establishes a framework to provide financial assistance to persons or their next of kin who are injured or killed as a result of an international terrorist act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Anti-Terrorism Laws Reform Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Sep 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LUDLAM, Sen Scott 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: insert a new definition of ‘terrorist act’; remove the offences of ‘reckless possession of a thing’, sedition, and associating with a terrorist organisation; amend the reference to ‘fostering the doing of’ a terrorist act in the definition of ‘terrorist organisation’; provide for terrorist organisations to be prescribed in regulations; and amend the ‘supporting’ offence; Crimes Act 1914 to: remove ‘investigative dead time’ from the calculation of dead time; and remove the presumption against bail for certain offences; and

  Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

  in relation to the questioning and detention of terrorism suspects. Also repeals the

  National Security Information (Criminal and Civil Proceedings) Act 2004

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Security Legislation Amendment Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Mar 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement Bill 2010, the bill amends: the

  Crimes Act 1914

  and

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  in relation to treason and sedition (urging violence) offences; the

  Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995

  and

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: clarify when an organisation advocates the doing of a terrorist act; extend to three years the period of a regulation that lists a terrorist organisation; and update the terrorist organisation listing; the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to update definitions; the

  Crimes Act 1914

  in relation to: investigation of Commonwealth offences; powers to search premises in relation to terrorism offences; re-entry of premises in emergency situations; and bail for terrorism and national security offences; the

  Charter of the United Nations Act 1945

  in relation to: the standard for listing a person, entity, assets or class of assets; and listing reviews; the

  National Security Information (Criminal and Civil Proceedings) Act 2004

  in relation to the protection and disclosure of national security information in criminal and civil proceedings; the

  Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986

  to enable the Prime Minister to request the Inspector-General to inquire into an intelligence or security matter relating to any Commonwealth department or agency; and five Acts to make amendments consequent on the establishment of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum