| Aged Care (Subsidy, Fees and Payments) Amendment (Cessation of Temporary Funding Increases) Determination 2020 [F2020L01077] | To cease, from 1 September 2020, temporary aged care funding increases payable to approved aged care providers announced by the government on 20 March 2020. | Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19
| 12/20,
p.9 |
| Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) (Subsidy and Other Measures) Amendment (Cessation of Temporary Funding Increases) Determination 2020 [F2020L01076] | To cease, from 1 September 2020, temporary aged care funding increases payable to approved aged care providers announced by the government on 20 March 2020. | Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19
| 12/20,
p.9 |
| Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Subsidies—COVID-19 Support Supplement and Workforce Continuity Funding Measures No. 2) Instrument 2020 [F2020L01183] | To prescribe a second COVID-19 support supplement payment, which is payable for each day in June 2020 that a care recipient was being provided residential care by their approved provider, and continue, from 1 September 2020, the temporary increases to the viability supplement and to the homeless supplement which had ended on 31 August 2020. | Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19
| 13/20,
p.7 |
| Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Subsidies—COVID-19 Support) Instrument 2020 [F2020L00615] | To prescribe a COVID-19 support supplement which is payable to approved providers of residential care and flexible care. The $205 million funding package is aimed at covering the additional costs of caring for the health and wellbeing of aged care recipients during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 7/20,
p.3 |
| ASIC Corporations (Amendment) Instrument 2020/635 [F2020L01020] | To give relief to financial counselling agencies that provide financial counselling to small businesses, from the requirement to hold an Australian financial services licence when providing advice on particular financial products. | Senate Economics Legislation Committee | 11/20,
p.3 |
| ASIC Corporations (Conditional Costs Schemes) Instrument 2020/38 [F2020L00034] | To continue to enable the temporary operation of a proof of debt funding scheme by extending exemptions for proof of debt funding arrangements from certain requirements in the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009. | Joint Standing Committee on Corporations and Financial Services | 5/20,
p.3 |
| ASIC Corporations (Deferral of Design and Distribution Obligations) Instrument 2020/486 [F2020L00618] | To defer the commencement of new design and distribution obligations by six months so that they will now apply from 5 October 2021 (rather than 5 April 2021). The design and distribution obligations are intended to assist consumers to obtain appropriate financial products by requiring issuers and distributors to have a customer-centric approach to designing, marketing and distributing financial products. | Senate Economics Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 7/20,
p.3 |
| ASIC Corporations (Hardship Withdrawals Relief) Instrument 2020/778 [F2020L01069] | To provide responsible entities of registered managed investment schemes relief from certain provisions in Chapter 5C of the Corporations Act 2001 to facilitate withdrawals by members suffering hardship while the scheme is frozen. | Senate Economics Legislation Committee
| 12/20,
p.9 |
| ASIC Corporations (Litigation Funding Schemes) Instrument 2020/787 [F2020L01045] | To support the transition to the new regulatory framework for litigation funding schemes commencing on 22 August 2020 and to give effect to government policy on the regulation of litigation funding, including by providing exemptions to responsible entities of litigation funding schemes from certain provisions in Chapter 7 and Chapter 5C of the Corporations Act 2001. | Senate Economics Legislation Committee
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services
| 12/20,
p.10 |
| ASIC Corporations, Credit and Superannuation (Internal Dispute Resolution) Instrument 2020/98 [F2020L00962] | To set out new standards and requirements for the internal dispute resolution (IDR) procedures of financial firms, specify requirements for written reasons for decisions about complaints, clarify that financial firms must comply with their IDR procedures, and modify the definition of 'small business' in relation to IDR in Chapter 7 of the Corporations Act 2001 so it aligns with the definition of 'small business' in the Rules of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority in relation to external dispute resolution. | Senate Economics Legislation Committee | 11/20,
p.3 |
| ASIC Credit (Deferral of Mortgage Broker Obligations) Instrument 2020/487 [F2020L00623] | To defer the commencement of new mortgage broker obligations by six months so that they will now apply from 1 January 2021 (rather than 1 July 2020). The new mortgage broker obligations include a duty to act in the best interests of the consumer in relation to credit assistance, a requirement to prioritise consumers’ interests when providing credit assistance, and a ban on conflicted remuneration. | Senate Economics Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 7/20,
p.3 |
| ASIC Credit (Litigation Funding—Exclusion) Instrument 2020/37 [F2020L00035] | To continue to enable the temporary operation of a litigation funding scheme by extending exemptions for litigation funding arrangements from certain requirements in the Corporations Act 2000. | Joint Standing Committee on Corporations and Financial Services | 5/20,
p.3 |
| Autonomous Sanctions (Designated Persons and Entities and Declared Persons – Ukraine) Continuing Effect Declaration 2020 (No 2) [F2020L01089] | To continue the designations and/or declarations of 138 persons and entities who the Foreign Minister is satisfied meet the criteria for the continuation of targeted financial sanctions and travel bans under the Autonomous Sanctions Regulations 2011, and to revoke the designation of a deceased person. | Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee
| 12/20,
p.10 |
| Autonomous Sanctions Legislation Amendment (Syria and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction) Instrument 2020 [F2020L01019] | To continue the designations and/or declarations of 54 persons and entities who the Foreign Minister is satisfied meet the criteria for the continuation of targeted financial sanctions and travel bans under the Autonomous Sanctions Regulations 2011, and in some instances updates the biodata for some designated persons and entities. | Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee | 11/20,
p.3 |
| Census and Statistics Amendment (Statistical Information) Regulations 2020 [F2020L00109] | The instrument inserts two additional topics into the Census and Statistics Regulation 2016: service in the Australian Defence Force and health conditions diagnosed by a doctor or a nurse. These amendments require the Australian Statistician to collect statistical information about these topics in the 2021 census. | Senate Economics Legislation Committee | 4/20,
p.3 |
| Child Care Subsidy Amendment (Coronavirus Response Measures No. 4) Minister's Rules 2020 [F2020L00802] | To amend the Child Care Subsidy Minister’s Rules 2017 to introduce a number of new measures to support approved child care providers and individuals with children in care during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 10/20,
p.15 |
| Child Care Subsidy Amendment (Coronavirus Response Measures No. 5) Minister’s Rules 2020 [F2020L00930] | To amend the Child Care Subsidy Minister’s Rules 2017 to support approved child care providers and individuals with children in care by adding a rule that permits approved providers to waive their fees for child care services in areas subject to Stage 3 or higher “stay at home” restrictions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. | Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 10/20,
p.15 |
| Child Care Subsidy Amendment (Coronavirus Response Measures No. 6) Minister’s Rules 2020 [F2020L01052] | To increase the number of allowable absence days that are available to individuals whose children are in care at approved child care services in Victoria and to increase the cap on the appropriation in section 233 of the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999 for payments under the Community Child Care Fund Special Circumstances Grant Opportunity program for the 2020-2021 financial year from $584 million to $623 million. | Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19
| 12/20,
p.10 |
| Competition and Consumer (Industry Codes—Dairy) Regulations 2019 [F2019L01610] | To establish a mandatory Dairy Code of Conduct that sets out a regulatory scheme for enforceable minimum standards of conduct for business practices between dairy farmers and processors of milk. | Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee | 2/20,
p.3 |
| Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Deferral of Sunsetting—ASIO Special Powers Relating to Terrorism Offences) Determination 2020 [F2020L01134] | To provide that Division 3 of Part III of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979 (ASIO Act), which establishes the framework for ASIO to question and detain persons under a warrant in relation to terrorism offences, will continue to operate until 7 March 2021 despite the ASIO Act providing that the provisions sunset on 7 September 2020. | Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee
| 12/20,
p.11 |
| Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Deferral of Sunsetting—Income Management and Cashless Welfare Arrangements) Determination 2020 [F2020L00572] | To extend the end date for the Cashless Debit Card trial in all existing sites and income management in the Cape York region from 30 June 2020 to 31 December 2020. | Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 7/20,
p.4 |
| Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Alternative Decline in Turnover Test Rules (No. 2) 2020 [F2020L01200] | To give certain entities or classes of entities an alternative basis on which they may satisfy the actual decline in turnover test or the decline in turnover test to be eligible for JobKeeper payments. This will ensure that entities in certain classes will still be eligible to receive assistance through JobKeeper payments where their particular circumstances are not specifically accounted for in the Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Rules 2020. | Senate Economics Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19
| 13/20,
p.7 |
| Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Alternative Decline in Turnover Test Rules 2020 [F2020L00461] | To give certain entities or classes of entities an alternative basis on which they may satisfy the decline in turnover test to be eligible for JobKeeper payments. | Senate Economics Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 7/20,
p.4 |
| Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Amendment Rules (No. 2) 2020 [F2020L00546] | To amend the Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Rules 2020 to adjust some elements of the scheme, and expand access to the scheme in some areas. | Senate Economics Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 7/20,
p.4 |
| Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Amendment Rules (No. 3) 2020 [F2020L00605] | To amend the Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Rules 2020 to provide that the 6 month turnover test period applying to universities is limited to only those universities that are Table A providers within the meaning of Higher Education Support Act 2003. Table B providers will be permitted to assess their eligibility based on a monthly or quarterly test period similar to other entities. | Senate Economics Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 7/20,
p.4 |
| Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Amendment Rules (No. 5) 2020 [F2020L00884] | To amend the Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Rules 2020 so that approved child care providers are not entitled to JobKeeper payments for certain employees or for a business participant following the government's decision to extend separate support to the child care sector. | Senate Economics Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 10/20,
p.15 |
| Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Amendment Rules (No. 7) 2020 [F2020L01021] | To extend the scope of the JobKeeper scheme so that it also benefits employers of more recently engaged employees by providing a new employment reference date of 1 July 2020 for employees to be eligible for the scheme. | Senate Economics Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19
| 11/20,
p.4 |
| Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Amendment Rules (No. 8) 2020 [F2020L01165] | To amend the Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Rules 2020 to extend the period of wage subsidy support provided under the JobKeeper scheme until 28 March 2021 by introducing a new two-tiered payment structure for fortnights beginning on or after 28 September 2020. | Senate Economics Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19
| 12/20,
p.10 |
| Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Rules 2020 [F2020L00419] | To establish the JobKeeper payment to assist employers affected by the Coronavirus to allow them to continue to retain their employees. | Senate Economics Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 6/20,
p.3 |
| Corporations (Coronavirus Economic Response) Determination (No. 2) 2020 [F2020L00611] | To modify the operation of certain civil penalty provisions in the Corporations Act 2001 to establish a temporary test based on a disclosing entity or its officers’ knowledge, recklessness or negligence with respect to whether certain information would have a material effect on the price or value of its enhanced disclosure securities and therefore should be disclosed. | Senate Economics Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 7/20,
p.4 |
| Corporations (Coronavirus Economic Response) Determination (No. 3) 2020 [F2020L01194] | To modify the Corporations Act 2001 to enable meetings to be run electronically and to enable electronic signatures to be used, to relieve companies from problems they face due to COVID-19. | Senate Economics Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19
| 13/20,
p.8 |
| Corporations (Coronavirus Economic Response) Determination (No. 4) 2020 [F2020L01206] | To modify the operation of certain civil penalty provisions in the Corporations Act 2001 to establish a temporary test based on a disclosing entity or its officers’ knowledge, recklessness or negligence with respect to whether certain information would have a material effect on the price or value of its enhanced disclosure securities and therefore should be disclosed. | Senate Economics Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19
| 13/20,
p.8 |
| Corporations Amendment (Litigation Funding) Regulations 2020 [F2020L00942] | To amend the Corporations Regulations 2001 to bring litigation funders under the managed investment scheme and Australian Financial Services License regimes to ensure that they are subject to greater regulatory oversight and accountability. The instrument also removes exemptions from anti-hawking provisions and product disclosure requirements for litigation funders. | Senate Economics Legislation Committee
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services
| 11/20,
p.4 |
| Fair Work Amendment (Variation of Enterprise Agreements) Regulations 2020 [F2020L00432] | To amend the Fair Work Regulations 2009 to temporarily modify one of the conditions of which the Fair Work Commission must be satisfied before approving a variation to an enterprise agreement. The instrument shortens the minimum period in which employees must be able to access the proposed variation before voting from seven calendar days to one calendar day. | Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 6/20,
p.3 |
| Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response—Protecting Consumers) (Mortgage Brokers) Regulations 2020 [F2020L01189] | To address conflicted remuneration for mortgage brokers, as per Recommendation 1.3 of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry, including by setting out what is conflicted remuneration and circumstances in which conflicted remuneration must not be accepted or given. | Senate Economics Legislation Committee
| 13/20,
p.8 |
| Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Amendment (Commercial Land Lease Threshold Test) Regulations 2020 [F2020L01131] | To amend the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Regulation 2015 to reinstate certain monetary thresholds for leasehold interests in non-sensitive commercial land that is not vacant. | Senate Economics Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19
| 12/20,
p.11 |
| Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Amendment (Threshold Test) Regulations 2020 [F2020L00435] | To amend the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Regulation 2015 to reduce the monetary value thresholds for particular significant actions and notifiable actions to nil. This requires a greater number of investments by foreign persons in Australia to be notified to the Treasurer for review to ensure they are not contrary to the national interest. | Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 6/20,
p.3 |
| Future Drought Fund (Drought Resilience Funding Plan 2020 to 2024) Determination 2020 [F2020L00117] | The instrument sets out the vision, aims, objectives, funding principles and strategic priorities for the $3.9 billion Future Drought Fund. | Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee | 4/20,
p.3 |
| Guarantee of Lending to Small and Medium Enterprises (Coronavirus Economic Response Package) Rules 2020 [F2020L00413] | To define the term ‘SME entity’ for the purposes of the Guarantee of Lending to Small and Medium Enterprises (Coronavirus Economic Response Package) Act 2020. The Act is intended to help ensure credit continues to flow to SME entities so that they can meet their immediate financing needs during the uncertain economic conditions caused by COVID-19. | Senate Economics Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 6/20,
p.4 |
| Health Insurance (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Amendment Determination 2020 [F2020L00166] | The instrument:
- provides that an Extended Medicare Safety Net benefit cap of 15 per cent of the schedule fee will apply to the insertion of micro-bypass glaucoma surgery devices in the eye; and
- removes 22 Medical Benefits Schedule mirror items related to diagnostic imaging services performed on older/aged equipment.
| n/a | 4/20,
p.3 |
| Higher Education Support (HELP Tuition Protection Levy) (Risk Rated Premium and Special Tuition Protection Components) Determination 2020 [F2020L00960] | To determine various matters relevant to the calculation of the risk rated premium component and special tuition protection component of the HELP Tuition Protection Levy for the 2020 calendar year. | n/a
| 11/20,
p.4 |
| International Organisations (Privileges and Immunities—Square Kilometre Array Observatory) Regulations 2020 [F2020L00950] | To give legal effect to Australia's obligations in providing privileges and immunities to the Square Kilometre Array Observatory and relevant categories of persons, pursuant to the Convention Establishing the Square Kilometre Array Observatory. | Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee
| 11/20,
p.4 |
| Migration Amendment (Hong Kong Passport Holders) Regulations 2020 [F2020L01047] | To amend the Migration Regulations 1994 to implement policy changes relating to visas for Hong Kong passport holders, including extending temporary skilled and temporary graduate visas and providing that temporary skill shortage visas will be for a period of five years. | Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee
| 12/20,
p.11 |
Narcotic Drugs (Licence Charges) Amendment (2020 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2020 [F2020L00901]
| To amend the Narcotic Drugs (Licence Charges) Regulation 2016 to update licence charges for medicinal cannabis and cannabis research licences. | n/a | 10/20,
p.16 |
| National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Coronavirus Economic Response Package) Regulations 2020 [F2020L00386] | To temporarily exempt Australian credit licensees from responsible lending obligations. The exemption operates in limited situations where a consumer obtains credit under a credit contract or goods under a consumer lease for purposes that include a purpose of a small business operated by the consumer. | Senate Economics Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 6/20,
p.4 |
| National Health Security (National Notifiable Disease List) Amendment Instrument 2020 [F2020L00111] | The instrument temporarily adds 'human coronavirus with pandemic potential' to the National Notifiable Disease List which requires state and territory governments to notify the Commonwealth government of cases of the disease. | n/a | 4/20,
p.4 |
| Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 1) Determination 2020 [F2020L00310] | To modify the:
- Social Security Act 1991 to enable recipients of Youth Allowance who are undertaking full-time study or are new apprentices to receive the COVID-19 supplement, and ensure that claimants for parenting payment and Austudy can qualify for payment where they do not meet specified requirements; and
- Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 to enable people who tried to make contact with Services Australia during a prescribed period to be taken to have lodged a claim on 23 March 2020 or the date of eligibility, if later, if they complete a claim by 19 April 2020.
| Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 5/20,
p.4 |
| National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Amendment (2020 Measures No. 1) Rules 2020 [F2020L00096] | To amend the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Rules 2018 to exclude three New South Wales independent schools from the definition of ‘state institution’ under the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Act 2018. | Joint Select Committee on Implementation of the National Redress Scheme | 5/20,
p.3 |
| Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment (Cross-boundary Greenhouse Gas Storage) Regulations 2020 [F2020L01177] | To provide for the amount of annual titles administration levy imposed on a cross-boundary greenhouse gas assessment permit. | n/a | 13/20,
p.8 |
| Paid Parental Leave Amendment (Flexibility Measures) Rules 2020 [F2020L00837] | To amend the Paid Parental Leave Rules 2010 to set out the eligibility criteria for parental leave pay for days in a person’s initial continuous 12 week paid parental leave period and for a person’s flexible paid parental leave days. | Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee | 10/20,
p.16 |
| Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (2020 Measures No. 3) Rules 2020 [F2020L00782] | To amend the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014 to extend the capacity for consultants or independent contractors and their employees to exercise powers under the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Act 1997, in addition to the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013. | Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee
| 12/20,
p.11 |
| Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (Grant Rules for Corporate Commonwealth Entities) Rules 2020 [F2020L00923] | To amend the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014 to prescribe mandatory advising, decision-making and reporting requirements that apply when a minister is involved in the making of a corporate Commonwealth entity grant. The instrument implements recommendation no. 4 of the 2019-20 Auditor-General Report No. 23: Award of Funding under the Community Sport Infrastructure Program. | Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on Administration of Sports Grants | 10/20,
p.16 |
| Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Amendment Determination 2020 (No. 2) [F2020L00653] | To amend the Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Determination 2015, to set the taxes for receiver licences. | n/a | 9/20,
p.21 |
| Radiocommunications (Spectrum Licence Tax) Amendment Determination 2020 (No. 1) [F2020L01167] | To amend the Radiocommunications (Spectrum Licence Tax) Determination 2014 to introduce the new Electromagnetic Energy component of the spectrum licence tax imposed on ‘designated spectrum licences’ to recover the costs of the EME Program. | n/a
| 12/20,
p.11 |
| Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence Tax) Amendment Determination 2020 (No. 2) [F2020L00652] | To amend the Radiocommunications (Transmitter Licence Tax) Determination 2015 to set the taxes for transmitter licences. | n/a | 9/20,
p.21 |
| Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 2) Determination 2020 [F2020L00311] | To specify the criteria a person must meet in order to qualify for youth allowance, jobseeker payment or crisis payment under the Social Security Act 1991 in circumstances relating to COVID-19, and provides for recipients of Austudy payment to receive the COVID-19 supplement. | Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 5/20,
p.4 |
| Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 3) Determination 2020 [F2020L00338] | To temporarily modify the Social Security Act 1991 in respect of the rates of payment paid to people who only qualify for a social security payment on 25 March 2020 because of the temporary modifications made to the Social Security Act relating to COVID-19. The first instalment of such a person’s payment will include an additional amount that represents two days’ worth of their daily rate of payment. | Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 6/20,
p.4 |
| Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 4) Determination 2020 [F2020L00474] | To modify the Social Security Act 1991 in relation to the partner income reduction rate for jobseeker payment by reducing it from 60 per cent to 25 per cent of the person’s partner income excess. | Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 7/20,
p.4 |
| Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 5) Determination 2020 [F2020L00509] | To modify the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 to facilitate the provision of information (including tax file number information) by the Commissioner of Taxation to the Secretary of the Department of Social Services in matters related to the administration of the JobKeeper payment. | Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 7/20,
p.5 |
| Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 6) Determination 2020 [F2020L00475] | To provide for recipients of widow allowance, partner allowance and special benefit under the Social Security Act 1991 to receive the COVID-19 supplement from 27 April 2020. | Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 7/20,
p.5 |
| Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 7) Determination 2020 [F2020L00545] | To vary the Social Security Act 1991 to remove the liquid assets test waiting period and seasonal work preclusion period for social security claimants who had already served a part of such period prior to 25 March 2020, and for people who claim during certain specified periods. | Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 7/20,
p.5 |
| Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 8) Determination 2020 [F2020L00428] | To temporarily modify the Social Security Act 1991 in relation to when a person is regarded as a ‘member of a couple’ for the purposes of jobseeker payment. | Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 6/20,
p.4 |
| Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 9) Determination 2020 [F2020L00440] | To give people who attempt to contact or actually contact Services Australia between 23 March and 29 March 2020 until 8 May 2020 to complete their social security payment claim and have their payment backdated to 23 March 2020 (or the day they qualify for payment if this is a later day). The instrument also ensures that people who contact Services Australia between 30 March 2020 and 21 April 2020 will have until 8 May 2020 to complete their claim and have their payment backdated to the date they make contact (or the day they qualify for payment if this is a later day). | Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 6/20,
p.4 |
| Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 10) Determination 2020 [F2020L00690] | To temporarily modify the Social Security Act 1991 to implement measures related to carer payment and carer allowance, former recipients of wife pension, mobility allowance, and pension portability, to prevent detriment to social security recipients resulting from the impacts of COVID-19. | Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 9/20,
p.21 |
| Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 11) Determination 2020 [F2020L00765] | To modify provisions of the Social Security Act 1991 and the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 to extend qualification for income support payments and concessions, where a recipient would otherwise cease to qualify due to a change in their or their partner’s employment income. | Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 | 10/20,
p.16 |
| Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 12) Determination 2020 [F2020L01010] | To modify section 204A of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 to provide for additional purposes for which the Secretary of the Department of Social Services can use JobKeeper information provided to the Secretary by the Commissioner of Taxation. | Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19
| 11/20,
p.4 |
| Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 13) Determination 2020 [F2020L00980] | To ensure that a social security recipient who is currently subject to a nil rate period under subsection 23(4A) of the Social Security Act 1991, or who commence a nil rate period before 16 November 2020, will be taken to be receiving a social security payment at a rate of nil until at least 16 November 2020. This will allow the person to retain access to certain benefits, such as concession cards, for a longer period. | Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19
| 11/20,
p.5 |
| Social Security (Coronavirus Economic Response—2020 Measures No. 14) Determination 2020 [F2020L01093] | To amend multiple instruments and modify the Social Security Act 1991 to:
-
extend the period in respect of which the COVID-19 supplement will be paid (at a lower rate of $250);
- reinstate the assets tests and the liquid assets test waiting period for certain payments;
-
temporarily increase the income free area to $300 a fortnight for certain JobSeeker Payment and Youth Allowance (Other) recipients; and
-
increase the partner income taper rate for JobSeeker Payment recipients from 25 cents for every dollar over the partner income free area to 27 cents for every dollar over the partner income free area.
| Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19
| 12/20,
p.12 |
| VET Student Loans (VSL Tuition Protection Levy) (Risk Rated Premium and Special Tuition Protection Components) Determination 2020 [F2020L00961] | To determine various matters relevant to the calculation of the risk rated premium component and special tuition protection component of the VSL Tuition Protection Levy for the 2020 calendar year. | n/a
| 11/20,
p.5 |