20.06.1994
Compliance with the Trade Practices Act 1974 (ALRC Report 68)
ALRC Report 68 (tabled June 1994) reviewed the sanctions, penalties, remedies and other provisions in the Trade Practices Act 1974 (TPA) relating to compliance with Part V, having regard to the need for effective compliance, difficulties that had been experienced, and the need for quick, cost effective and fair remedies. Compliance with the Trade Practices …
Read more03.03.1994
Equality before the Law – Interim Report (ALRC Report 67)
In its interim report (tabled 3 March 1994), the ALRC recommended the immediate establishment of a National Women’s Justice Program (NWJP) to address women’s needs for access to justice. View Equality before the Law – Interim Report (ALRC Report 67) on the AustLII website.
Read more30.09.1993
Collective Investments: Other People’s Money (ALRC Report 65)
ALRC Report 65 (tabled 30 September 1993) is a two-volume report. It found that collective investments were a rapidly growing sector in investment in Australia, of considerable importance to the economy.Collective Investments: Other People’s Money concluded that policy should therefore ensure the twin objectives of encouraging business activity while ensuring that investors were adequately protected. In …
Read more09.09.1993
Collective investments
The inquiry into collective investments was conducted jointly with the Companies and Securities Advisory Committee (CSAC). Its aim was to review the regulatory framework for prescribed interests and similar collective investments schemes. Consultation papers published as part of the Collective Investments inquiry were: an issues paper—Collective Investments (ALRC IP 10); and two discussion papers—Collective Investment …
Read more09.07.1993
Children’s Evidence: Closed Circuit TV
In 1988, at the suggestion of the then Australian Capital Territory Chief Magistrate, Mr Ron Cahill, the federal Attorney-General agreed that the Australian Law Reform Commission and the ACT Magistrates Court should examine the use of closed circuit television for children who give evidence in court. The evaluation study aimed to assess: whether closed circuit …
Read more27.05.1993
Personal Property Securities (ALRC Report 64)
Personal Property Securities (ALRC Report 64) was tabled on 27 May 1993. It reviewed the method of dealing with personal property securities. View ALRC Report 64 in HTML on the AustLII website.
Read more26.05.1993
Children’s Evidence: Closed Circuit TV (ALRC Report 63)
ALRC Report 63 (tabled 1993) evaluates a 12-month trial period using closed circuit television in the ACT Magistrates Court, Children’s Court and Coroner’s Court. The evaluation study aimed to assess: whether closed circuit TV reduces the stress of testifying for child witnesses both for its own sake and in order to improve the quality of …
Read more09.05.1993
Personal property securities
This inquiry begain in June 1990, when the method of dealing with personal property securities was both complex and inefficient. A complicated and often overlapping range of laws applied depending on the nature of the security, the type of property the security was taken out over and the class of debtor.These laws were a mixture …
Read more20.09.1992
Administrative penalties in customs and excise (ALRC Report 61)
ALRC Report 61 (tabled September 1992) identified that there were issues regarding ways the administrative penalty scheme of the Customs Service should operate and also whether there should be an administrative penalty scheme for excise.The report questioned whether administrative penalties should apply to innocent or deliberate errors, how adequate the existing mechanisms for enforcement were …
Read more14.09.1992
Customs and excise (ALRC Report 60)
ALRC Report 60 (tabled September 1992) aimed to simplify and modernise the law relating to customs and excise.ALRC Report 60 concluded that a single Customs and Excise Act would avoid the duplication and anomalous differences resulting from separate Acts. One volume of the three-volume report was dedicated to draft legislation.View ALRC Report 60 in HTML …
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