Bill
Register of Foreign Ownership of Agricultural Land Amendment (Water) Bill 2016
passed, as at 2016-12-07. Treasury portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Treasury
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2016-10-12
- second reading — 2016-10-12
- second reading — 2016-11-07
- second reading — 2016-11-07
- third reading — 2016-11-07
- introduced — 2016-11-08
- second reading — 2016-11-08
- second reading — 2016-12-01
- committee — 2016-12-01
- third reading — 2016-12-01
- other — 2016-12-01
- passed — 2016-12-01
- royal assent — 2016-12-07
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 2016-10-12.
The bill would create a Water Register to track foreign ownership of water rights.
The Commissioner would run the register, which has a public statistical part and a full record that does not identify individuals.
The Commissioner must report annually to the Minister on the register's operation, and the Act would be treated as a taxation law for confidentiality purposes.
- Establishes a Water Register for foreign-held water entitlements and rights.
- Requires the Commissioner to publish a statistical part of the register online.
- Requires the Commissioner to give the Minister an annual report on the register's operation.
Foreign persons holding certain water entitlements and rights.
Sources
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