Bill
Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Amendment (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 includes measures to prevent price exploitation after the repeal.
The package would give the ACCC powers to monitor prices and ban businesses from making false claims about the carbon tax repeal's effect on prices.
Corporations that break the new price exploitation rules could face fines of up to 6,471 penalty units, and individuals up to 1,295 penalty units.
- The bill would prohibit businesses from exploiting customers on key goods like electricity and gas after the carbon tax repeal.
- It would give the ACCC new powers to watch prices before and after the repeal and check if companies are passing on savings.
- It would stop companies from lying about how the carbon tax repeal affects prices.
Businesses that supply key goods such as electricity and gas, and consumers who buy them, would be affected by the package.
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