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• Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Mar 2011 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Bill 2011, the bill amends the:

  Education Services for Overseas Students Act 2000

  to provide that the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) and its staff undertake functions relating to provider registration and monitoring;

  Higher Education Support Act 2003

  to recognise new registration requirements for higher education providers and the TEQSA; and proposed

  Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011

  to update the definition of ‘vocational education and training course’. Also provides for the transition of functions from state and territories authorities to the TEQSA. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Mar 2011 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2011, the bill establishes the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency as an independent national regulatory and quality assurance agency for higher education. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Territories Self-Government Legislation Amendment (Disallowance and Amendment of Laws) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Sep 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Sponsor

  BROWN, Sen Bob 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988

  to remove the Governor-General’s power to to disallow or recommend amendments of any enactments made by the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly; and

  Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978

  to remove the Governor-General’s power to to disallow or recommend amendments of any laws made by the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax Laws Amendment (Public Benefit Test) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 May 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to require that, in order to receive exemption from income tax, the aims and activities of religious and charitable institutions must be assessed against a public benefit test. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Trade Practices Amendment (Material Lessening of Competition—Richmond Amendment) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Nov 2009 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Trade Practices Act 1974

  to prevent corporations from directly or indirectly merging with or acquiring an asset which would result in material lessening of competition in the relevant market. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (National Broadband Network Measures No. 1) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Jun 2009 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to: require utilities to provide information, as well as telecommunications providers, specified by the minister; specify the purposes for which protected network information is permitted to be disclosed and used; and change sunset periods so that information can be disclosed and used during the roll-out of the national broadband network. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Trade Practices Amendment (Guaranteed Lowest Prices—Blacktown Amendment) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Jun 2009 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  XENOPHON, Sen Nick
  JOYCE, Sen Barnaby 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Trade Practices Act 1974

  to provide that a corporation sell the same product at the same price at all its retail outlets within a 35 kilometre geographic area. 

  Bill

• Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Medical Devices and Other Measures) Bill 2008 [2009]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2008 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Therapeutic Goods Act 1989

  to: exempt medical devices from the operation of the Act to enable goods to be stockpiled for use in a health emergency and remove the requirement that such exemptions are disallowable instruments; adjust the test of whether a person is a ‘fit and proper person’ to hold a manufacturing licence or a medical device conformity assessment certificate; adopt the European Pharmacopoeia and United States Pharmacopoeia as additional default standards; enable public access to information held by the Therapeutic Goods Administration; ensure controls over restricted and prohibited representations apply to advertisements in all media; and align penalties with current policy formulations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (National Broadband Network) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Mar 2008 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to require telecommunications carriers to disclose certain information to the Commonwealth which can be disclosed to companies considering responding to a proposal for the development of a National Broadband Network. The requirement to provide information ceases 12 months after the legislation commences. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Therapeutic Goods Amendment Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Jun 2007 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Therapeutic Goods Act 1989

  ,

  Therapeutic Goods Amendment Act (No. 1) 2006

  and

  Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Medical Devices) Act 2002

  to extend transitional registration arrangements for certain patient treatment devices beyond 4 October 2007 to enable reassessment by the Therapeutic Goods Administration prior to entry in Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods as ‘included’ devices. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum