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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 (Restoring the Debt Ceiling)
Bill 2018
No. , 2018
(Senator Hanson)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Commonwealth
Inscribed Stock Act 1911, and for related purposes
No. , 2018
Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Amendment (Restoring the Debt
Ceiling) Bill 2018
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Contents
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Short title ........................................................................................... 1
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Commencement ................................................................................. 1
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Schedules ........................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1--Amendments
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Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Act 1911
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No. , 2018
Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Amendment (Restoring the Debt
Ceiling) Bill 2018
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A Bill for an Act to amend the Commonwealth
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Inscribed Stock Act 1911, and for related purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act is the Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Amendment
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(Restoring the Debt Ceiling) Act 2018.
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2 Commencement
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(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
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column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect
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according to its terms.
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Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Amendment (Restoring the Debt
Ceiling) Bill 2018
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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
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enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of
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this Act.
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(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act.
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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it
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may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
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3 Schedules
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Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
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according to its terms.
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Amendments
Schedule 1
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Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Amendment (Restoring the Debt
Ceiling) Bill 2018
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Schedule 1--Amendments
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Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Act 1911
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1 After section 4
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Insert:
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5 Limit on stock and securities on issue
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(1) Stock created under section 4 must not be issued or sold if this
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would cause the total face value of stock and securities on issue
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under this Act and the Loans Securities Act 1919 at any time to
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exceed 35% of gross domestic product.
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(2) In working out the total face value of stock and securities for the
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purposes of subsection (1), disregard stock and securities of the
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kind mentioned in subsection 51JA(2A).
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(3) For the purposes of this section:
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(a) the face value of a Treasury Indexed Bond is taken to be its
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face value at the time it was issued; and
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(b) gross domestic product means the amount most recently
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published by the Australian Statistician as gross domestic
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product.
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2 Application provision
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The amendment made by item 1 applies to stock and securities on issue
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after the commencement of that item, regardless of whether the stock
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and securities were issued before or after the commencement of that
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item.
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