Bill
Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Amendment (Norfolk Island) Bill 2015
passed, as at 2015-05-26. Infrastructure portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Infrastructure
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2015-03-26
- second reading — 2015-03-26
- second reading — 2015-05-12
- second reading — 2015-05-12
- third reading — 2015-05-12
- introduced — 2015-05-13
- second reading — 2015-05-13
- second reading — 2015-05-14
- second reading — 2015-05-14
- third reading — 2015-05-14
- passed — 2015-05-14
- royal assent — 2015-05-26
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 2015-03-26.
This bill is part of a package that reforms Norfolk Island's governance and extends mainland social security, immigration, health and tax arrangements to the territory.
The package would abolish the Norfolk Island Legislative Assembly and establish an Advisory Council during an interim transition period, with a second phase starting on 1 July 2016 to apply New South Wales state law as Commonwealth law.
The explanatory memorandum does not specify what this particular bill does within the package.
- Abolishes the Norfolk Island Legislative Assembly and Executive Council.
- Establishes an Advisory Council to advise the Administrator.
- Confers legislative power on the Governor-General to make Ordinances for the territory.
- Creates a statutory position of Executive Director for the Norfolk Island Administration.
- Gives the Commonwealth Minister overarching supervisory powers over the Administration.
- Transfers powers and functions under Norfolk Island enactments from Norfolk Island Ministers to the Commonwealth Minister.
The Norfolk Island community, the Norfolk Island Government, and the Australian Government.
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