Farm Household Support Minister’s Amendment Rule 2015

I, Barnaby Joyce, Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, make the following rule.

Dated 2 December 2015

Barnaby Joyce

Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Farm Household Support Minister’s Rule 2014

1  Name

  This is the Farm Household Support Minister’s Amendment Rule 2015.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Farm Household Support Act 2014.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Farm Household Support Minister’s Rule 2014

1  Section 8

Repeal the section, substitute:

8  Maximum amount of activity supplement

  For paragraph 82(1)(a) of the Act, the maximum amount of activity supplement is:

 (a) if a person’s cumulative period of farm household allowance is 2 years or more and the person begins, or will begin, to undertake an activity in the third year of the cumulative period of farm household allowance—$4 000; and

 (b) in any other case—$3 000.

Note: The amount of activity supplement payable to a person for an activity is the lowest of the maximum amount prescribed by these rules, the cost of the activity, or the remaining balance of the person’s activity supplement—see subsection 82(1) of the Act.