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TASMANIA
SUPPORTING LOCAL BUSINESS AND JOBS (RED TAPE
REDUCTION) BILL 2011
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CONTENTS
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Definitions
4. Red Tape Reduction - "One on, two off"
5. Repeal of Business Regulations
6. Report on Red Tape
7. Binding the Crown
8. Regulations
9. Administration of Act
SUPPORTING LOCAL BUSINESS AND JOBS (REDUCING RED
TAPE) BILL 2011
(Brought in by Adam Richard Brooks MP)
A BILL FOR
An Act to provide for the reduction of State Government red tape.
Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the
advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in
Parliament assembled, as follows:
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Red Tape Reduction Act 2011.
2. Commencement
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the
Royal Assent.
3. Definitions
In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears -
"business regulation" means any State Government
regulation, rule or by-law that a business in Tasmania must
comply with.
4. Red Tape reduction - `one on, two off'
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For each new business regulation that is proposed by a
Minister, the Minister must identify two business
regulations that will be repealed.
5. Repeal of business regulations
Once the Governor has made the new business
regulation, the Minister has 45 days to arrange for the
Governor to repeal the business regulations identified
for repeal.
6. Report on Red Tape
The Treasurer shall in respect of each financial year
prepare a Report on Red Tape. The Report on Red
Tape must include:
(a) The total number of business regulations at the
beginning of the financial year;
(b) The total number of business regulations at the end of
the financial year;
(c) A list of all new business regulations made during the
financial year; and
(d) A list of all the business regulations repealed during the
financial year.
7. Tabling of the Report on Red Tape
The Treasurer shall on or before 31 October in each
year cause to be laid before both Houses of Parliament
copies of the Report on Red Tape prepared under
Section 6.
8. Binding the Crown
(a) This Act binds the Crown in right of Tasmania and, in
so far as the legislative power of Parliament permits, the
Crown in all its other capacities.
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(b) Nothing in this Act renders the Crown liable to be
prosecuted for an offence.
9. Regulations
(a) The Governor may make regulations for the purposes of
this Act.
(b) The regulations may be made so as to apply differently
according to matters, limitations or restrictions, whether
as to time, circumstance or otherwise, specified in the
regulations.
7. Administration of Act
Until provision is made in relation to this Act by order under section 4 of
the Administrative Arrangements Act 1990 -
(a) the administration of this Act is assigned to the Treasurer;
and
(b) the department responsible to that Minister in relation to the
administration of this Act is the Department of Treasury and
Finance.
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