2013-2014 

 

The Parliament of the 

Commonwealth of Australia 

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

 

 

 

 

Presented and read a first time 

 

 

 

 

Australian National Preventive Health 

Agency (Abolition) Bill 2014 

 

No.      , 2014 

 

(Health) 

 

 

 

A Bill for an Act to abolish the Australian National 

Preventive Health Agency, and for related purposes 

   

   

 

 

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Contents 

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Short title ........................................................................................... 1

 

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Commencement ................................................................................. 1

 

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Schedule(s) ........................................................................................ 2

 

Schedule 1--Amendments

 

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Part 1--Repeals

 

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Australian National Preventive Health Agency Act 2010

 

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Part 2--Transitional provisions

 

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Division 1--Introduction

 

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Division 2--Transfer of other matters

 

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Division 3--Miscellaneous

 

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A Bill for an Act to abolish the Australian National 

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Preventive Health Agency, and for related purposes 

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The Parliament of Australia enacts: 

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1  Short title 

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  This Act may be cited as the Australian National Preventive 

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Health Agency (Abolition) Act 2014. 

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2  Commencement 

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(1)  Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table 

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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with 

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column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect 

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according to its terms. 

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Commencement information 

Column 1 

Column 2 

Column 3 

Provision(s) 

Commencement 

Date/Details 

1.  Sections 1 to 3 

and anything in 

this Act not 

elsewhere covered 

by this table 

The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. 

 

2.  Schedule 1 

1 July 2014. 

However, if this Act receives the Royal 

Assent on or after 1 July 2014, the 

provision(s) commence on the day after the 

end of the period of 3 months beginning on 

the day this Act receives the Royal Assent. 

 

Note: 

This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally 

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enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of 

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this Act. 

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(2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. 

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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it 

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may be edited, in any published version of this Act. 

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3  Schedule(s) 

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  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or 

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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule 

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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect 

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according to its terms. 

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Amendments  Schedule 1 

Repeals  Part 1 

 

 

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Schedule 1

--Amendments 

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Part 1

--Repeals 

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Australian National Preventive Health Agency Act 2010 

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1  The whole of the Act 

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Repeal the Act. 

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Schedule 1  Amendments 

Part 2  Transitional provisions 

 

 

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Part 2

--Transitional provisions 

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Division 1

--Introduction 

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2  Definitions 

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In this Part: 

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ANPHA means the Australian National Preventive Health Agency. 

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Note: 

Section 7 of the Australian National Preventive Health Agency Act 

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2010 provides that the ANPHA consists of the CEO and the staff of 

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the ANPHA. 

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transition time means the commencement of this Part. 

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Division 2

--Transfer of other matters 

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3  Transfer of records to the Department 

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(1) 

This item applies to any records or documents that were in the 

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possession of ANPHA immediately before the transition time. 

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(2) 

The records and documents are to be transferred to the Department after 

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the transition time. 

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Note: 

The records and documents are Commonwealth records for the purposes of the Archives 

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Act 1983. 

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4  Transfer of Ombudsman investigations 

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If: 

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(a)  before the transition time, a complaint was made to the 

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Ombudsman, or the Ombudsman began an investigation, 

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under the Ombudsman Act 1976 in relation to an action taken 

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by ANPHA; and 

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(b)  immediately before the transition time, the Ombudsman had 

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not finally disposed of the matter in accordance with the 

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Ombudsman Act 1976; 

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the Ombudsman Act 1976 applies after the transition time as if that 

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action had been taken by the Department. 

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Amendments  Schedule 1 

Transitional provisions  Part 2 

 

 

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Division 3

--Miscellaneous 

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5  Transitional rules 

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The Minister may, by legislative instrument, make rules in relation to 

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transitional matters arising out of the repeal made by this Schedule. 

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