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Statute Law Amendment (Prescribed Forms and Other Updates) Bill 2023


Contents

1............................ Short title............................................................................ 1

2............................ Commencement................................................................. 2

3............................ Schedules........................................................................... 2

Schedule 1—Prescribed forms                                                                                       3

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1992                    3

Airports Act 1996                                                                                                          3

Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Act 1998                            3

Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979                                       4

Banking Act 1959                                                                                                          4

Building Energy Efficiency Disclosure Act 2010                                                    4

Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011                                         5

Competition and Consumer Act 2010                                                                       5

Copyright Act 1968                                                                                                       5

Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006                          6

Court Security Act 2013                                                                                               6

Customs Act 1901                                                                                                         7

Defence Trade Controls Act 2012                                                                              7

Designs Act 2003                                                                                                          8

Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000                                                                               9

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975                                                             10

Health Insurance Act 1973                                                                                        10

International Air Services Commission Act 1992                                                 11

Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003                         11

Migration Act 1958                                                                                                     12

National Environment Protection Measures (Implementation) Act 1998         13

National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007                                        13

National Health and Medical Research Council Act 1992                                 14

National Health Security Act 2007                                                                          16

National Measurement Act 1960                                                                              16

Payment Systems and Netting Act 1998                                                                  16

Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986                                             17

Protection of the Sea (Civil Liability) Act 1981                                                    19

Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014                                            20

Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000                                                              20

Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988                                             20

Trade Marks Act 1995                                                                                                21

Transport Safety Investigation Act 2003                                                                21

Schedule 2—References to persons with disability                                         22

Family Law Act 1975                                                                                                 22

Social Security Act 1991                                                                                            23

Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986                                                                              25

Schedule 3—References to Northern Territory legislation                        26

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976                                       26

Fair Work Act 2009                                                                                                    26

Lands Acquisition (Northern Territory Pastoral Leases) Act 1981                   26

Mutual Recognition Act 1992                                                                                   26

Native Title Act 1993                                                                                                  27

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006                              28

Surveillance Devices Act 2004                                                                                 28

Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979                                   28

Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997                                                        28

Uranium Royalty (Northern Territory) Act 2009                                                  30

Work Health and Safety Act 2011                                                                            30

Schedule 4—Other amendments of principal Acts                                         31

Air Navigation Act 1920                                                                                            31

Airports Act 1996                                                                                                        31

A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999                                                 31

Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006             31

Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005                              32

Australian Postal Corporation Act 1989                                                                32

Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918                                                                         32

Customs Act 1901                                                                                                       33

Data Availability and Transparency Act 2022                                                      34

Disability Discrimination Act 1992                                                                         35

Export Control Act 2020                                                                                            35

Fair Work Act 2009                                                                                                    35

Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009                                                  36

Family Law Act 1975                                                                                                 36

Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2021                                    37

Federal Safety Commissioner Act 2022                                                                  37

Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Act 2018                                              37

Higher Education Support Act 2003                                                                       38

My Health Records Act 2012                                                                                    38

National Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2022                                                  38

National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013                                                   38

National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011                    38

Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006                              39

Radiocommunications Act 1992                                                                               39

Seafarers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1992                                        39

Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018                                                          39

Space (Launches and Returns) Act 2018                                                                39

Sydney Airport Curfew Act 1995                                                                              39

Trade Marks Act 1995                                                                                                41

Schedule 5—Repeals of obsolete Acts and spent provisions                      42

Part 1—Repeals of obsolete Acts                                                                          42

Division 1—Repeals                                                                                                  42

Evidence Act 1905                                                                                                      42

Migration (Health Services) Charge Act 1991                                                      42

Wool International Act 1993                                                                                     42

Wool International Privatisation Act 1999                                                            42

Division 2—Consequential amendments                                                               42

Migration Act 1958                                                                                                     42

Part 2—Repeals of spent provisions                                                                     43

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1992                  43

Australian Capital Territory Government Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 1994   43

Health Insurance Act 1973                                                                                        43

Health Insurance Commission (Reform and Separation of Functions) Act 1997 43

Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976                               44

Patents Act 1990                                                                                                         44

Privacy Act 1988                                                                                                         44

Social Security Act 1991                                                                                            44

Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991                                                                  45

Trade Representatives Act 1933                                                                               45

Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986                                                                              45

Schedule 6—Amendments of amending Acts                                                     46

Acts and Instruments (Framework Reform) Act 2015                                          46

Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Jobs for Families Child Care Package) Act 2017        46

Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Act 2014                                                                                                                                        46

Social Security Legislation Amendment (Youth Allowance Consequential and Related Measures) Act 1998                                                                                                                                        46

 

 



A Bill for an Act to update references to prescribed forms in, and to make minor and technical amendments of, the statute law of the Commonwealth, to repeal certain obsolete Acts, and for related purposes

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1   Short title

                   This Act is the Statute Law Amendment (Prescribed Forms and Other Updates) Act 2023.

2   Commencement

             (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.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table

The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.

 

2.  Schedule 1

A single day to be fixed by Proclamation.

However, if the provisions do not commence within the period of 6 months beginning on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent, they commence on the day after the end of that period.

 

3.  Schedules 2 to 6

The 28th day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.

 

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.

3   Schedules

                   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.