Bill
Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Energy Regulator Separation) Bill 2025
passed, as at 2025-11-06. Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-07-23
- second reading — 2025-07-23
- second reading — 2025-09-04
- second reading — 2025-10-28
- second reading — 2025-10-29
- third reading — 2025-10-29
- introduced — 2025-10-29
- second reading — 2025-10-30
- second reading — 2025-11-03
- second reading — 2025-11-03
- third reading — 2025-11-03
- passed — 2025-11-03
- royal assent — 2025-11-06
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 2025-07-23.
This bill is part of a package that would separate the Australian Energy Regulator from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and make it a standalone non-corporate Commonwealth entity with its own board.
The bill would amend the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 to legally split the AER from the ACCC and give the AER Board responsibility as the accountable authority under the PGPA Act.
The package implements recommendations from the 2015 Vertigan Review, the 2017 Finkel Review, and the 2020 Review of the Energy Security Board.
- Legally separate the Australian Energy Regulator from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
- Establish the Australian Energy Regulator as a non-corporate Commonwealth entity with its own board.
- Make the AER Board the accountable authority under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.
The Australian Energy Regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and participants in energy markets.
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