House debates
Monday, 21 November 2011
Bills
Clean Energy Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Income Tax Rates Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Household Assistance Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Tax Laws Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Fuel Tax Legislation Amendment) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Customs Tariff Amendment) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Excise Tariff Legislation Amendment) Bill 2011, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Amendment Bill 2011, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Amendment Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Unit Shortfall Charge — General) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Unit Issue Charge — Auctions) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Unit Issue Charge — Fixed Charge) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (International Unit Surrender Charge) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Charges — Customs) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Charges — Excise) Bill 2011, Clean Energy Regulator Bill 2011, Climate Change Authority Bill 2011, Steel Transformation Plan Bill 2011, Australian Renewable Energy Agency Bill 2011, Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2011, Excise Tariff Amendment (Condensate) Bill 2011, Excise Legislation Amendment (Condensate) Bill 2011, Trade Marks Amendment (Tobacco Plain Packaging) Bill 2011; Returned from Senate
6:11 pm
Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source
I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the bill. I ask leave of the House to move government amendments (1) and (2) as circulated together.
Leave granted.
I move government amendments (1) and (2):
(1) Clause 2, page 2 (table items 3, 4, 5 and 6), omit the table items.
(2) Schedule 3, page 8 (line 1) to page 40 (line 16), omit the Schedule.
In response to a recommendation from the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics, the government has decided to remove schedule 3 to this bill, together with the Pay As You Go Withholding Non-compliance Tax Bill 2011. In their report of 3 November 2011, the committee recommended that the schedule be deleted so that more consultation could be devoted towards identifying additional defences that allow innocent directors to avoid exposure to the director penalty regime. I have asked Treasury to undertake further consultation to explore further defences. The government intends to bring these amendments back into the parliament in the next available sittings next year.
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