Contents

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

2............ Commencement................................................................................... 2

3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2

Schedule 1--Amendments of principal Acts                                                         3

Part 1--General amendments                                                                                   3

Antarctic Treaty (Environment Protection) Act 1980                                          3

Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005                             3

Broadcasting Services Act 1992                                                                               3

Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905                                                              3

Compensation (Japanese Internment) Act 2001                                                    4

Crimes Act 1914                                                                                                           4

Dairy Produce Act 1986                                                                                             4

Fair Work Act 2009                                                                                                     4

Higher Education Support Act 2003                                                                       5

Legislation Act 2003                                                                                                   5

Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976                                5

My Health Records Act 2012                                                                                     5

Primary Industries Research and Development Act 1989                                   6

Radio Licence Fees Act 1964                                                                                    6

Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979                                   6

Television Licence Fees Act 1964                                                                            6

Work Health and Safety Act 2011                                                                            7

Part 2--Other amendments                                                                                        8

Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1991                                                                        8

Schedule 2--Amendments consequential on the Acts and Instruments (Framework Reform) Act 2015                                                                                                                              9

Australian River Co. Limited Act 2015                                                                   9

Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Act 2015       9

Biosecurity Act 2015                                                                                                   9

Biosecurity (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2015             10

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997                                                                            10

Migration Act 1958                                                                                                   11

Schedule 3--Repeals of spent and obsolete provisions                                 12

Defence Act 1903                                                                                                       12

Medibank Private Sale Act 2006                                                                            12

Plant Health Australia (Plant Industries) Funding Act 2002                           12

Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction Act 2002                             12

Tobacco Advertising Prohibition Act 1992                                                         13

Schedule 4--Repeals of spent Acts                                                                            15

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Township Leasing) Act 2007                15

Governor-General Amendment Act 2003                                                              15

Stevedoring Industry Act 1961                                                                               15

Stevedoring Industry (Temporary Provisions) Act 1968                                    15

 

 

 

Statute Update (Winter 2017) Act 2017

No. 93, 2017

 

An Act to make various technical and minor amendments of the statute law of the Commonwealth, to repeal certain obsolete Acts, and for related purposes

[Assented to 23 August 2017]

The Parliament of Australia enacts: