State Financial Institutions and Metway Merger Amendment Bill 2024

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About the Bill 

On 16 April 2024, the Hon Cameron Dick MP, Deputy Premier, Treasurer and Minister for Trade and Investment introduced the State Financial Institutions and Metway Merger Amendment Bill 2024. The Bill was referred to the Cost of Living and Economics Committee for detailed consideration.   

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purpose of the Bill

The primary objective of the Bill is to ensure certain conditions under part 6 of the State Financial Institutions and Metway Merger Act 1996 (Act) continue to apply to Suncorp Group Limited (Suncorp) once Suncorp bank is removed from the application of part 6.

Further information including written briefings, correspondence, response to submissions, transcripts and answers to questions taken on notice are available under the Related Publications tab.

Call for submissions

The committee invites submissions on any aspect of the Bill, from all interested parties.  Guidelines for making a submission to a parliamentary committee are available here:  Guide to making a submission. Please ensure your submission meets these requirements. 

Click here to make an online submission to the Bill. 

The closing date for written submissions is Thursday, 2 May 2024 at 5:00PM. 

Submissions made by email or post

Submissions may be emailed to:   

Email: COLEC@parliament.qld.gov.au   

Committee Secretary
Cost of Living and Economics Committee
Parliament House
George Street
Brisbane Qld 4000

Submissions must include:

  • the author’s name
  • if the submission is made on behalf of an organisation, the level of approval (e.g. a local branch, executive committee or national organisation), and
  • at least two of the following:
  • email address
  • mailing address, and
  • daytime telephone number.

Please ensure your submission includes the above or it may not be considered by the committee.

Please note: Your name and submission may be published on the committee’s inquiry webpage, which will mean it can be viewed on the internet. You can request for your name to be withheld from your published submission, or for both your name and your submission to be kept confidential (i.e. not published). Decisions about whether and how submissions are published are at the discretion of the committee.

PUBLIC PROCEEDINGS

The committee has held a public briefing on the Bill by officers of the Department of Treasury and Finance on 29 April 2024, and a public hearing will be held on Friday, 17 May

See timeline below for further information.

Committee’s report

The committee is due to table its report on Friday 31 May 2024. The report will be published here on the webpage.

Once the committee’s report has been tabled, the Government has three months to respond to the report’s recommendations (if any). At that time, the Government Response will be published here on the webpage.

Timeline

Submissions close:5:00pm, Thursday, 2 May 2024
Public briefing:11:45am, Monday, 29 April 2024 - Program - Broadcast
Public hearing:10:00am, Friday, 17 May 2024
Report due date:Friday, 31 May 2024

 

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