Bill
True-up Shortfall Levy (General) (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013
lapsed, as at 2014-03-20. Environment portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Environment
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2013-11-13
- second reading — 2013-11-13
- second reading — 2013-11-18
- second reading — 2013-11-19
- second reading — 2013-11-20
- second reading — 2013-11-21
- second reading — 2013-11-21
- committee — 2013-11-21
- third reading — 2013-11-21
- introduced — 2013-12-02
- second reading — 2013-12-02
- second reading — 2014-03-03
- second reading — 2014-03-04
- second reading — 2014-03-17
- second reading — 2014-03-17
- committee — 2014-03-17
- committee — 2014-03-20
- third reading — 2014-03-20
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2013-11-13.
This bill is part of a package that would repeal the carbon tax and amend related laws.
The package would ban suppliers from price gouging on key goods like electricity and gas after the carbon tax is removed.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission would get new powers to monitor prices and enforce the ban.
- Prohibits businesses from engaging in carbon-specific price exploitation on certain key goods after the carbon tax repeal.
- Gives the ACCC monitoring powers to assess the effect of the repeal on prices and assist with enforcement.
- Prevents corporations from making false or misleading representations about the carbon tax repeal's effect on prices.
Businesses supplying key goods such as electricity and gas, and consumers who buy them.
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