On 3 November the Senate referred the Corporations Amendment (Future of Financial Advice) Bill 2011 for inquiry and report. On 25 November the Senate referred the Corporations Amendment (Further Future of Financial Advice Measures) Bill 2011 for inquiry and report. The committee will be considering both bills concurrently.

Submissions should be received by 27 January 2012. The reporting date is 14 March 2012.

The Committee is seeking written submissions from interested individuals and organisations preferably in electronic form submitted  online or sent by email to  economics.sen@aph.gov.au as an attached Adobe PDF or MS Word format document. The email must include full postal address and contact details.

Alternatively, written submissions may be sent to:  

                Senate Economics  Committees, SG.64
                PO Box 6100  
                Parliament House  
                Canberra ACT 2600  
                Australia

Notes to help you prepare your submission are available from the website at https://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/wit_sub/index.htm. Alternatively, the Committee Secretariat will be able to help you with your inquiries and can be contacted on telephone +61 2 6277 3540 or facsimile +61 2 6277 5719 or by email to economics.sen@aph.gov.au.

Inquiries from hearing and speech impaired people should be directed to Parliament House TTY number 02 6277 7799. Adobe also provides tools at  http://access.adobe.com/ for the blind and visually impaired to access PDF documents. If you require any special arrangements to enable you to participate in the Committee's inquiry, please contact the Committee Secretariat.

Once the Committee accepts your submission, it becomes a confidential Committee document and is protected by Parliamentary Privilege. You must not release your submission without the Committee's permission. If you do, it will not be protected by Parliamentary Privilege. At some stage during the inquiry, the Committee normally makes submissions public and places them on its website. Please indicate if you want your submission to be kept confidential.

NB: The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services is also conducting an inquiry into the provisions of this bill. You are encouraged to send your submission to both Committees' inquiries.