Senate debates

Wednesday, 12 March 2008

Documents

Tabling

The following documents were tabled by the Clerk:

[Legislative instruments are identified by a Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI) number]

Civil Aviation Act—Civil Aviation Safety Regulations—

Airworthiness Directives—Part 105—

AD/B737/316—Floor Beam Web [F2008L00694]*.

AD/B737/317—Section 48 cavity [F2008L00704]*.

AD/J4100/24—Fuel Boost Pump and Fuel Tank High Level Sensor Wiring [F2008L00695]*.

AD/J4100/25—Fuel Tank Bonding Leads and Fuel Pipe Clearances [F2008L00697]*.

Instrument No. CASA EX18/08—Exemption – provision of ARFFS at Sunshine Coast Airport, Maroochydore [F2008L00621]*.

Extradition Act—Select Legislative Instrument 2008 No. 12—Extradition (Hong Kong) Regulations 2008 [F2008L00529]*.

Financial Sector (Collection of Data) Act—Explanatory statement and Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (Reporting Standard) Determinations Nos—

26 of 2008—Reporting standard ARS 231.1b International Exposures: Locational (Liabilities) Part 1 [F2008L00449]*.

27 of 2008—Reporting standard ARS 231.2 International Exposures: Locational Part 2 [F2008L00450]*.

National Health Act—Privacy Guidelines for the Medicare Benefits and Pharmaceutical Benefits Programs [F2008L00706]*.

Social Security Act—

Social Security Exempt Lump Sum (Exceptional Circumstances Exit Grant) (DEEWR) Determination 2008 [F2008L00707]*.

Social Security Exempt Lump Sum (Exceptional Circumstances Exit Grant) (FaHCSIA) Determination 2008 [F2008L00705]*.

Trade Practices Act—Select Legislative Instruments 2008 Nos—

16—Trade Practices Amendment Regulations 2008 (No. 1) [F2008L00671]*.

17—Trade Practices (Consumer Product Safety Standard) (Hot Water Bottles) Regulations 2008 [F2008L00651]*.

Veterans’ Entitlements Act—Select Legislative Instrument 2008 No. 14—Veterans’ Entitlements (DFISA-like Payment) Amendment Regulations 2008 (No. 1) [F2008L00575]*.

*       Explanatory statement tabled with legislative instrument.

The following government documents were tabled:

Migration Act 1958

Reports for the period 1 July to 31 October 2007—

Section 91Y—Protection visa processing taking more than 90 days.

Section 440A—Conduct of Refugee Review Tribunal reviews not completed within 90 days.

Section 486O—Assessment of appropriateness of detention arrangements—Personal identifiers 347/08 to 365/08—

Commonwealth Ombudsman’s reports.

Commonwealth Ombudsman’s reports—Government response, dated 11 March 2008.

Treaties—

Bilateral

Text, together with national interest analysis and annexures—

Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga relating to Air Services, done at Neiafu, Tonga on 23 August 2003 [Replacement for document previously tabled on 11 September 2007].

Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the Republic of Singapore concerning the co-production of films (Sydney, 7 September 2007).

Film Co-production Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the People’s Republic of China (Beijing, 27 August 2007).

Treaty between Australia and the State of the United Arab Emirates on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (Hobart, 26 July 2007) [Replacement for document previously tabled on 18 September 2007].

Treaty on Extradition between Australia and the State of the United Arab Emirates (Hobart, 26 July 2007) [Replacement for document previously tabled on 18 September 2007].

Text, together with national interest analysis, regulation impact statement and annexures—Convention between Australia and Japan for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on Income, and Protocol, done at Tokyo on 31 January 2008.

MultilateralText, together with national interest analysis and annexures—

Amendments, agreed at The Hague, Netherlands, in June 2007, to Appendices I and II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora of 3 March 1973.

Constitutional amendments to the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization and other WIPO administered treaties adopted by the WIPO General Assemblies in September 1999 and October 2003: Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization; Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property; Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of Registration of Marks; Patent Cooperation Treaty; Strasbourg Agreement concerning the International Patent Classification; Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure; Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, 1971 [Replacement for document previously tabled on 11 September 2007].

Fourth Agreement to Extend the 1987 Regional Cooperative Agreement for Research, Development and Training Related to Nuclear Science and Technology, done at Vienna on 22 June 2006.

Patent Law Treaty, done at Geneva on 1 June 2000 [Replacement for document previously tabled on 15 August 2007].

Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks adopted at Singapore on 27 March 2006 [Replacement for document previously tabled on 15 August 2007]

Withdrawal of Australia’s exemption for the use of mirex under Article 4 of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, done at Stockholm on 22 May 2001 [Replacement for document previously tabled on 11 September 2007]