[Index] [Search] [Download] [Related Items] [Help]
This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
2016-2017-2018
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
THE SENATE
Presented and read a first time
Commonwealth Inscribed Stock
Amendment (Debt Ceiling) Bill 2018
No. , 2018
(Senator Bernardi)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Commonwealth
Inscribed Stock Act 1911, and for related purposes
No. , 2018
Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Amendment (Debt Ceiling) Bill 2018
i
Contents
1
Short title ........................................................................................... 1
2
Commencement ................................................................................. 1
3
Schedules ........................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1--Amendments
3
Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Act 1911
3
No. , 2018
Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Amendment (Debt Ceiling) Bill 2018
1
A Bill for an Act to amend the Commonwealth
1
Inscribed Stock Act 1911, and for related purposes
2
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
3
1 Short title
4
This Act is the Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Amendment (Debt
5
Ceiling) Act 2018.
6
2 Commencement
7
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
8
commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
9
column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect
10
according to its terms.
11
12
2
Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Amendment (Debt Ceiling) Bill 2018
No. , 2018
Commencement information
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Provisions
Commencement
Date/Details
1. The whole of
this Act
The day after this Act receives the Royal
Assent.
Note:
This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally
1
enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of
2
this Act.
3
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act.
4
Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it
5
may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
6
3 Schedules
7
Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
8
repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
9
concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
10
according to its terms.
11
Amendments Schedule 1
No. , 2018
Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Amendment (Debt Ceiling) Bill 2018
3
Schedule 1--Amendments
1
2
Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Act 1911
3
1 After section 4
4
Insert:
5
5 Limit on stock and securities on issue
6
(1) The total face value of stock and securities on issue under this Act
7
and the Loans Securities Act 1919 at any time must not exceed
8
$600 billion.
9
(2) In working out the total face value of that stock and securities,
10
disregard stock and securities of the kind mentioned in
11
subsection 51JA(2A).
12
(3) For the purposes of this section, the face value of a Treasury
13
Indexed Bond is taken to be its face value at the time it was issued.
14
2 Application provision
15
The amendment made by item 1 applies to stock and securities on issue
16
after the commencement of that item, regardless of whether the stock
17
and securities were issued before or after the commencement of that
18
item.
19
[Index] [Search] [Download] [Related Items] [Help]