Search all bills

TOTAL RESULTS: 741

• Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2022 Measures No. 1) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Dec 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Aged Care 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Therapeutic Goods Act 1989

  to: require mandatory reporting of adverse events involving medical devices; provide a marketing approval pathway for biologicals that are for export only; remove merits review rights for a decision by the secretary to require a person to provide information or documents under the Act; enable the secretary to extend the period for a person to pay the amount stated in an infringement notice, and require a person to provide information or documents that are relevant to a contravention of the Act; extend the period for which seized goods can be held; provide that therapeutic goods advertising is excluded from advertising restrictions for certain health professionals or to persons purchasing goods on behalf of governments, registered charities or health facilities; enable the secretary to withdraw approval for the use of a restricted representation in an advertisement about therapeutic goods; enable the secretary to approve the importation or supply of substitute overseas prescription medicine that has been previously approved within Australia; provide that the secretary is not required to observe any requirements of the natural justice hearing rule when releasing therapeutic goods information; provide that sponsors of reportable medicines that are in shortage must provide updated information to the secretary; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (2022 Measures No. 5) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Nov 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to update the list of deductible gift recipients. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Consumer Data Right) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Nov 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to establish action initiation reforms, enabling consumer data right (CDR) consumers to direct accredited persons to instruct on actions on their behalf, such as making a payment, opening and closing an account, switching providers and updating personal details, using the CDR framework. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (2022 Measures No. 4) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Nov 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to: provide for a 30% refundable tax offset in relation to the development of digital games in Australia; and update the list of deductible gift recipients;

  A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999

  ,

  A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Regulations 2019

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to clarify that certain digital currencies continue to be excluded from the income tax treatment of foreign currency;

  Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986

  to enable the commissioner to determine alternative records which may be kept and retained by employers for fringe benefit tax record keeping purposes;

  Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

  to provide for temporary measures allowing certain small businesses to access 20% bonus deductions for eligible expenditure incurred on external training for employees, and expenses and depreciating assets for the purpose of digitising operations;

  Corporations Act 2001

  ,

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  and

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to extend existing reporting and auditing requirements to registerable superannuation entities;

  Clean Energy Finance Corporation Act 2012

  to: amend the definition of 'responsible ministers' and specify that the minister administering the Act is also the nominated minister unless determined otherwise in writing; credit the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) Special Account with $11.5 billion after commencement of the amendments; and enable additional amounts to be credited to the CEFC Special Account through additional appropriations of the Parliament; and

  Income Tax Assessment (1997 Act) Regulations 2021

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

  to: amend the definition of 'superannuation income stream'; provide a non-refundable tax offset for certain members of the Military Superannuation Benefits Scheme and Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme; and specify eligibility criteria and a framework for a veterans’ superannuation (invalidity pension) tax offset. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Modernising Business Communications and Other Measures) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Nov 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: enable all documents under the Act to be signed electronically and for certain documents to be sent in either hard copy or electronic form; and provide that companies are not required to send documents to a member where contact details are known to be incorrect;

  Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Act 1998

  ,

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  ,

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  ,

  National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009

  and

  Tax Agent Services Act 2009

  to enable certain regulatory bodies to hold virtual hearings and examinations;

  Corporations Act 2001

  ,

  Excise Act 1901

  and

  Small Superannuation Accounts Act 1995

  to allow electronic payments to be used; 11 Acts to require notices in newspapers to be published in an accessible and reasonably prominent manner;

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  ,

  Corporations Act 2001

  ,

  ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Act 2017

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to: remove erroneous references and redundant definitions; apply consistent headings to definitions sections; and make minor technical amendments;

  Corporations Act 2001

  ,

  National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009

  and

  National Consumer Credit Protection (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2009

  to move five legislative instruments into primary law; and 15 Acts to make minor technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Information Disclosure, National Interest and Other Measures) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Nov 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to: enable carriers and carriage service providers to use and disclose information for purposes connected to the prevention of a serious threat to the life or health of a person; authorise the use and disclosure of unlisted numbers and associated addresses for the purposes of dealing with matters raised by a call to an emergency service number; confer civil immunities on telecommunications companies for the provision of reasonably necessary assistance to the Commonwealth, states or territories where a national emergency declaration is in force; and require more detailed records of information to be recorded for authorised disclosures; and

  Telstra Corporation and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2021

  and

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to make minor technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Sep 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  International Tax Agreements Act 1953

  to give legislative authority to the Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement to exclude from tax within Australia payments and credits made to Indian residents by Australian customers for technical services provided remotely that are covered by the Agreement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (More Competition, Better Prices) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Sep 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to increase the maximum penalty applicable for anti-competitive behaviour and certain breaches of competition consumer law; and

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  and

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  to: establish a civil penalty regime prohibiting the use of, and reliance on, unfair contract terms in standard form contracts; and expand the class of contracts that are covered by the unfair contract terms. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (2022 Measures No. 3) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Sep 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Amendment Bill 2022 and Income Tax Amendment (Labour Mobility Program) Bill 2022, the bill amends the:

  Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975

  to double the maximum financial penalties for contraventions of provisions that relate only to residential land;

  National Emergency Declaration Act 2020

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to enable the disclosure of protected information to Australian government agencies for the purpose of administering major disaster support programs approved by the minister;

  Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus (Measures No. 2) Act 2020

  to extend the temporary mechanism which enables ministers to make alternative arrangements for meeting information and documentary requirements;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  and three other taxation Acts to reduce the tax on certain income earned by foreign resident workers participating in the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme from 32.5 per cent to 15 per cent; and

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to provide for a supplementary annual performance test for faith-based products. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (2022 Measures No. 2) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Aug 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to: require electronic platform operators to provide information on transactions to the Australian Taxation Office; enable small business entities to apply to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) for an order staying, or otherwise affecting, the operation or implementation of decisions of the Commissioner of Taxation being reviewed by the AAT; and enable the commissioner to direct an entity to complete an approved recordkeeping course as an alternative to financial penalties where they reasonably believe the entity has failed to comply with its tax-related recordkeeping obligations;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to make consequential amendments;

  Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to remove the $250 non-deductible threshold for work-related self-education expenses; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to enable individuals aged 55 and above to make downsizer contributions to their superannuation plan from the proceeds of selling their main residence. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum