

2019-2020
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
As passed by both Houses
Treasury Laws Amendment (2018 Measures No. 2) Bill 2020
No. , 2020
A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to corporations, consumer credit and taxation, and for related purposes
Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2
4............ Independent review of operation of Schedule 1.................................. 2
Schedule 1—FinTech Sandbox Regulatory Licensing Exemptions 4
Part 1—Amendment of the Corporations Act 2001 4
Corporations Act 2001 4
Part 2—Amendment of the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 5
National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 5
Schedule 2—Innovation measures 6
Part 1—Venture capital investments 6
Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 6
Part 2—Early stage investor tax offsets 7
Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 7
Part 3—Managed investment trusts 10
Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 10
Part 4—Public trading trusts 11
Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 11
A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to corporations, consumer credit and taxation, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act is the Treasury Laws Amendment (2018 Measures No. 2) Act 2020 .
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
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Provisions |
Commencement |
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1. Sections 1 to 4 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table |
The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. |
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2. Schedule 1 |
The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent. |
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3. Schedule 2 |
The first 1 January, 1 April, 1 July or 1 October to occur after the day this Act receives the Royal Assent. |
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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
4 Independent review of operation of Schedule 1
(1) The Minister must cause an independent review to be conducted of the operation of the amendments made by Schedule 1 to this Act.
(2) The review must:
(a) start as soon as practicable after the end of 12 months after the commencement of the first regulations made for the purposes of section 926B of the Corporations Act 2001 that exempt a person or class of persons from subsection 911A(1) of that Act to enable testing of particular financial services; and
(b) be completed within 6 months.
(3) The persons who conduct the review must give the Minister a written report of the review.
(4) The Minister must cause copies of the report to be tabled in each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the report is given to the Minister.