Bill
Public Governance and Resources Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2015
passed, as at 2015-04-13. Finance portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Finance
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2015-02-12
- second reading — 2015-02-12
- second reading — 2015-03-17
- second reading — 2015-03-24
- second reading — 2015-03-24
- committee — 2015-03-24
- third reading — 2015-03-24
- introduced — 2015-03-25
- second reading — 2015-03-25
- second reading — 2015-03-26
- second reading — 2015-03-26
- third reading — 2015-03-26
- passed — 2015-03-26
- royal assent — 2015-04-13
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 2015-02-12.
This bill would update 35 Commonwealth Acts to improve how government bodies are run and manage their resources.
It would make technical fixes to the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013, including clarifying reporting periods and corporate plan descriptions, and streamline how functions are transferred between non-corporate entities.
It would also amend the transitional rules from the 2014 consequential act so that repayments to the Commonwealth are handled under the new act rather than the old one, avoiding complex reporting.
- Amends 35 Acts across the Commonwealth for governance and resource management.
- Improves the operation of the PGPA Act, including supporting GST obligations of non-corporate entities.
- Streamlines transitional arrangements for implementing the PGPA Act.
- Clarifies that section 77 of the PGPA Act, not section 28 of the FMA Act, supports repayments for amounts received before or after 1 July 2014.
- Clarifies obligations such as disclosure of interests and roles of accountable authorities.
Commonwealth entities and companies, and their enabling legislation.
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