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• Crimes Legislation Amendment (Harming Australians) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Oct 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General and Senator Xenophon 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to extend the retrospective operation of the offences of murder and manslaughter of an Australian citizen or resident of Australia to crimes that occurred before 1 October 2002. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Commonwealth Grants Commission Amendment (GST Distribution) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Oct 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WANG, Sen Zhenya 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Grants Commission Act 1973

  to require the Commonwealth Grants Commission, when considering the capacity of a state or territory to raise mining revenue in preparing its annual recommendation on the distribution of goods and services tax revenue, to take into account only the most recent financial year for which mining revenue data is available. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Criminal Code Amendment (Private Sexual Material) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Oct 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  WATTS, Tim, MP
  BUTLER, Terri, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to insert new offences in relation to the use of a carriage service for private sexual material (image-based sexual exploitation, or ‘revenge porn’). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (China-Australia Free Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Sep 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Tariff Amendment (China-Australia Free Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2015 to give effect to Australia’s obligations under Chapter 3 of the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement, the bill amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to: provide preferential rates of duty for Chinese originating goods; and impose certain obligations on exporters and producers of Australian goods who claim preferential tariff treatment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Fees and Charges) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Sep 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to implement certain recommendations from the Joint Review of Border Fees, Charges and Taxes, the bill amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to: amend the amount of warehoused goods declaration fee payable; provide for the circumstances in which warehouse licence application charges, warehouse licence variation charges and warehouse licence grant and renewal charges are payable; provide for the circumstances in which customs broker licence application charges and customs broker licence grant and renewal charges are payable; and enable the charging of fees for service in respect of matters under the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Depot Licensing Charges Amendment Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Sep 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to implement certain recommendations from the Joint Review of Border Fees, Charges and Taxes, the bill amends the

  Customs Depot Licensing Charges Act 1997

  to: amend the short title of the Act to the

  Customs Licensing Charges Act 1997

  ; amend the long title of the Act; impose charges on the processing of applications for warehouse licences, customs broker licences and variations to warehouse licences; and consolidate existing charges payable in relation to warehouse licences and customs broker licences. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (China-Australia Free Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Sep 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Amendment (China-Australia Free Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2015 to give effect to Australia’s obligations under Chapter 3 of the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement, the bill amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to: provide free rates of customs duty for most goods that are Chinese originating goods; maintain customs duty rates for certain Chinese originating goods; phase the preferential rates of customs duty for certain China originating goods to zero by the fifth year of phasing; and provide for the preferential and phasing rates of duty and maintain excise-equivalent rates of duty on certain alcohol, tobacco and petroleum products. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Civil Law and Justice (Omnibus Amendments) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Jun 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975

  in relation to: notification of applications for review; non-disclosure of certain information; the method of giving documents or things for the purposes of proceedings; tribunal members’ powers to dismiss certain applications; and the reinstatement of withdrawn applications; the

  Bankruptcy Act 1996

  in relation to: confidentiality requirements relating to statements of affairs; removal of certain requirements to notify, and lodge requests with, the Official Receiver; imposition of time limits for certain applications; and removal of an obsolete reference; the

  Evidence Act 1995

  to make a drafting change; the

  Federal Circuit Court of Australia Act 1999

  to: provide arresters with the power to use reasonable force to enter premises to execute an arrest warrant; and remove an obsolete reference; the

  Federal Court of Australia Act 1976

  in relation to: the jury empanelment process; the pre-trial process for indictable offences; and technical amendments; the

  International Arbitration Act 1974

  in relation to: enforcement of foreign arbitral awards; confidentiality provisions to arbitral proceedings; and technical amendments; and 10 Acts to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (Fuel Indexation) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Jun 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Part of a package of four bills to re-introduce the biannual indexation of fuel excise and excise-equivalent fuel duties, the bill amends the:

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to: increase the rate of excise-equivalent customs duty applying to imported fuels, including gaseous fuels, in line with Consumer Price Index movements; index excise-equivalent customs duty on imported fuel ethanol; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Australian Trusted Trader Programme) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Jun 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Customs Act 1901

  to establish the Australian Trusted Trader Programme which will introduce a differentiated trust-based regulatory framework at the border for those entities that meet or exceed international supply chain security and trade compliance standards; and

  Australian Border Force Act 2015

  to make a consequential amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum