The Department of Industry and Commerce [II] was created on 7 May 1982 (Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No S94, 7 May 1982).  
The Department was responsible for manufacturing and tertiary industries, adjustment assistance to industry, small business and shipbuilding which were inherited from the Department of Industry and Commerce [I] (CA 1956); for duties for custom and excise and bounties on the production or export of goods inherited from the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs (CA 1951); and for relations with the building industry and housing policy generally (except welfare housing) from the Department of Housing and Construction [II] (CA 2747).
 
At the time of its creation the Department of Industry and Commerce [II] administered the following enactments:
 
. Australian Tourist Commission Act 1967
. Automatic Data Processing Equipment Bounty Act 1977
. Beer Excise Act Repeal Act 1968
. Bounty (Agricultural Tractors) Act 1966
. Bounty (Bed Sheeting) Act 1977
. Bounty (Books) Act 1969
. Bounty (Commercial Motor Vehicles) Act 1978
. Bounty (Drilling Bits) Act 1980
. Bounty (Injection-moulding Eqipment) Act 1979
. Bounty (Metal-working Machine Tools) Act 1981
. Bounty (Paper) Act 1979
. Bounty (Penicillin) Act 1980
. Bounty (Polyester-Cotton Yarn) Act 1978
. Bounty (Refined Tin) Act 1980
. Bounty (Rotary Cultivators) Act 1979
. Bounty (Ships) Act 1980
. Bounty (Textile Yarns) Act 1981
. Canned Fruit Excise Act Repeal Act 1968
. Coal Excise Act 1949
. Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905, in so far as it relates to
  imports
. Customs Act 1901, except to the extent administered by the Minister
  for Administrative Services and by the Attorney-General 
. Customs Securities (Penalties) Act 1981
. Customs Tariff Act 1966
. Customs Tariff (Anti-dumping) Act 1975
. Customs Tariff (Coal Export Duty) Act 1975
. Customs Tariff (Uranium Concentrate Export Duty) Act 1980
. Customs Tariff Validation Acts
. Customs Undertakings (Penalties) Act 1981
. Diesel Fuel Tax Acts
. Diesel Fuel Taxation (Administration) Act 1957
. Distillation Act 1901
. Excise Act 1901
. Excise Tariff Act 1921
. Excise Tariff Validation Acts
. Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Grants) Act 1980
. Narcotic Drugs 1967, section 12 and 22 and sub-section 24(2),  and
  so much of the remaining provisons of that Act (other than sections
  9, 10, 11, 13 and 23 and sub-section 24(1)) as relates to powers
  and functions under those sections
. Nitrogenous Fertilizers Subsidy Act 1966
. Petroleum Retail Marketing Franchise Act 1980
. Petroleum Retail Marketing Sites Act 1980
. Phosphate Fertilizers Bounty Act 1963
. Psychotropic Substances Act 1976
. Ship Construction Bounty Act 1975
. Spirits Act 1906
. States Grants (Petroleum Products) Act 1965
. Structural Adjustments (Loan Guarantees) Act 1974.
 
Under the Administrative Arrangements of 11 March 1983, the Department of Industry and Commerce [II] inherited two major
functions from other departments: the Industries Assistance
Commission from the Department of Administrative Services [II] (CA 1964); responsibility for regional development from the Department of National Development and Energy (CA 2979). In connection with these functions the Department became responsible for the following legislation:
 
. Albury-Wodonga Development Act 1973
. Albury-Wodonga (Financial Assistance) Act 1973
. Cities Commission (Repeal) Act 1975
. Growth Centres (Financial Assistance) Act 1973
. Industries Assistance Commission Act 1973
. Land Commissions (Financial Assistance) Act 1973
. Tasmania Agreement (Launceston Precision Tool Annexe) Act 1980 
. Urban and Regional Development (Financial Assistance) Act 1974, 
  except to the extent administered by the Minister for Home Affairs
  and Environment.
 
The Department also inherited responsibility for administering the Australian Industry Development Corporation Act 1970 from the Department of the Treasury (CA 2142) and passed responsibility for the building industry function to the newly created Department of Housing and Construction [III] (CA 3495).
 
It also lost the tourism function including administration of the Australian Tourist Commission Act to the Department of Sport, Recreation and Tourism (CA 3498) at this time. The Department became responsible for the following new enactments:
 
. Bounty (Berry Fruits) Act 1982
. Customs Tariff Act 1982.
 
On July 1983, the Bounty (Room Air Conditioners) Act 1983 was added to the list of acts administered by Industry and Commerce [II] and in the Administrative Arrangements Orders of 1 March 1984 a further four new enactments were added, as follows:
 
. Bounty (High Alloy Steel Products) Act 1983
. Bounty (Tractor Cabs) Act 1983
. Customs and Excise Amendment Act 1983
. Steel Industry Authority Act 1983.
 
In the Administrative Arrangements Orders of 2 July 1983, the
following new enanctments were added to the list of acts administered by the Minister of Industry and Commerce:
 
. Advance Australian Logo Protection Act 1984
. Bass Strait Freight Adjustment Levy Collection Act 1984.
 
In the administrative changes of 13 December 1984, (notified in Commonwealth Gazette, No S250, 13 December 1984) the Department of Industry and Commerce [II] was renamed the Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce (CA 4132). The new Department inherited most of the functions of the Department of Industry and Commerce [II] (CA 3256); some responsibility for offsets from the Department of Defence Support (CA 3254) and the function of technology and industrial research and development from the Department of Science and Technology (CA 3069). The regional development function of the Department of Industry and Commerce [II] passed to the Department of Local Government and Administrative Services (CA 4137).
 
Ministers for Industry and Commerce [II] were:
 
 7 May 1982 - 22 Nov 1982   : Hon Sir Phillip Lynch (CP 78)
22 Nov 1982 - 11 Mar 1983   : Hon Andrew Sharp Peacock (CP 234)
11 Mar 1984 - 13 Dec 1984   : Sen the Hon John Norman Button.
 
The Permanent Head of the Department and also Comptroller-General was T P Hayes.
 

Sources
 
1. Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, Nos S91, S94 and S95 of 7 May 
   1982, No S45 of 11 March 1983
2. Media Release for the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, 7
   and 11 May 1982
Historical agency address
Edmund Barton Building, Kings Avenue, Barton ACT
Legislation administered
Creation: Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No. S94, 7 May 1982
Abolition: Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No. S250, 13 December 1984