House of Representatives

Financial Sector Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2000

Explanatory Memorandum

(Circulated by authority of the Minister for Financial Services & Regulation,the Honourable Joe Hockey, MP)

Explanation of items

Clauses 4 and 5

Clause 4 - Actuarial services provided by APRA

5.1 This clause clarifies the extent of APRA's power to provide actuarial services, including non-prudential actuarial services, to Commonwealth clients over the period the AGA was part of APRA. The AGA became part of APRA on 1 July 1998, following the dissolution of the Insurance and Superannuation Commission (ISC), and was subsequently transferred to the Department of the Treasury on 1 April 2000. Clause 4 does not extend or reduce APRA's power to provide actuarial services that are incidental to another function of APRA.

Clause 5 - Compensation for acquisition of property

5.2 This clause ensures that Clause 4 does not limit the application of paragraph 51(xxxi) of the Constitution concerning the acquisition of property on just terms.


Copyright notice

© Australian Taxation Office for the Commonwealth of Australia

You are free to copy, adapt, modify, transmit and distribute material on this website as you wish (but not in any way that suggests the ATO or the Commonwealth endorses you or any of your services or products).