Bill
Business Names Registration (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019
lapsed, as at 2019-04-11. Treasury portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Treasury
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-02-13
- second reading — 2019-02-13
- other — 2019-04-11
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 2019-02-13.
This bill is part of a package that would modernise Commonwealth business registers and introduce a director identification number requirement.
The package would allow a minister to appoint an existing Commonwealth body as registrar, with functions and powers set out in existing laws and data standards made by the registrar.
Directors appointed under the Corporations Act or the CATSI Act would need to apply for a director identification number before their appointment, unless given extra time or an exemption.
- Modernises Commonwealth business registers.
- Introduces a director identification number requirement.
- Allows the registrar to make data standards as disallowable instruments.
- Creates offences for unauthorised disclosure of information held by the registrar.
- Provides for review of registrar decisions by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
- Sets civil and criminal penalties for directors who fail to apply for a director identification number on time.
Directors of bodies corporate registered under the Corporations Act or the CATSI Act, and officials handling registry information.
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