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Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill 2017

Type
Government
Originating house
House of Representatives
Status
Not Proceeding
Portfolio
Employment

Summary

Amends the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009 to: include certain serious criminal offences as a new category of ‘prescribed offence’ for the purposes of the automatic disqualification regime in relation to registered organisations; establish an offence for a disqualified person to continue to act as an official or in a way that influences the affairs of an organisation; allow the Federal Court to prohibit officials from holding office in certain circumstances or if they are otherwise not a fit and proper person; allow the Federal Court to cancel the registration of an organisation on a range of grounds; allow applications to be made to the Federal Court for a range of other orders; expand the grounds on which the Federal Court may order remedial action to deal with governance issues in an organisation; expressly provide that the Federal Court may appoint an administrator to an organisation or part of an organisation as part of a remedial scheme; introduce a public interest test for amalgamations of registered organisations; and make minor and technical amendments.

Progress of bill

For committee reference information, please see the Notes section at the end of this page.

House of Representatives
Introduced and read a first time 16/08/17  
Second reading moved 16/08/17  
Second reading debate 16/10/17  
Second reading agreed to 16/10/17  
Third reading agreed to 16/10/17  
     
Senate
Introduced and read a first time 17/10/17  
Second reading moved 17/10/17  
Lapsed at end of Parliament 01/07/19  
     

[Information on document types]

Text of bill

  • First reading

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Explanatory memoranda

  • Explanatory memorandum

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Second reading speeches


Proposed amendments

No proposed amendments have been circulated.

Schedules of amendments

Bills Digest



Notes
  • Referred to Committee (17/08/2017): Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee; Committee report (12/10/2017)
  • Considered by scrutiny committee (05/09/2017): Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights; Report 12 of 2017
  • Considered by scrutiny committee (06/09/2017): Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills; Scrutiny Digest 12 of 2017