Division Description Changes — Bills — Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill 2019; Second Reading — 28th Nov 2019

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senate vote 2019-11-28#5 Edited by mackay staff on 2020-01-03 17:07:46	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 the bill's main idea Description ~~<p class="speaker">Scott Ryan</p>~~ <p>I ask senators to remain in the chamber, because I imagine there will be one more division. The debate was closed by the minister last night. I now put the question that the bill be read a second time.</p> The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2019-11-28.17.2) 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.**

~~<p class="speaker">Scott Ryan</p>~~
<p>I ask senators to remain in the chamber, because I imagine there will be one more division. The debate was closed by the minister last night. I now put the question that the bill be read a second time.</p>
The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2019-11-28.17.2) 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.*