Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme (Disclosure in Communications Activity) Amendment Rules 2018

I, Christian Porter, Attorney‑General, make the following rules.

Dated 17 December 2018

Christian Porter

Attorney‑General

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme (Disclosure in Communications Activity) Rules 2018

1  Name

  This instrument is the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme (Disclosure in Communications Activity) Amendment Rules 2018.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Act 2018.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme (Disclosure in Communications Activity) Rules 2018

1  At the end of subsection 7(1)

Add:

 ; (d) subsection 79A(2) of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983;

 (e) subsection 70A(2) of the Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991.