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representatives vote 2019-12-05#7

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Title

  • Bills — Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill 2019; Second Reading
  • Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill 2019 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea

Description

  • <p class="speaker">Tony Smith</p>
  • <p>The question is that the bill be now read a second time.</p>
  • The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debate/?id=2019-12-05.42.1) to agree with the main idea of the bill. In parliamentary jargon, they voted to read the bill for a [second time](https://www.peo.gov.au/learning/fact-sheets/making-a-law.html). This means that they can now discuss it in greater detail.
  • ### What is the bill's main idea?
  • The bill was [introduced in order to](https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:legislation/billhome/r6348):
  • * *include certain serious criminal offences as a new category of ‘prescribed offence’ for the purposes of the automatic disqualification regime in relation to registered organisations;*
  • * *establish an offence for a disqualified person to continue to act as an official or in a way that influences the affairs of an organisation;*
  • * *allow the Federal Court to disqualify officials from holding office in certain circumstances or if they are otherwise not a fit and proper person;*
  • * *allow the Federal Court to cancel the registration of an organisation on a range of grounds;*
  • * *expand the grounds on which the Federal Court may order remedial action to deal with governance issues in an organisation;*
  • * *expressly provide that the Federal Court may appoint an administrator to an organisation or part of an organisation as part of a remedial scheme;*
  • * *introduce a public interest test for amalgamations of registered organisations; and*
  • * *make minor and technical amendments.*