Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Amendment Rules (No. 6) 2020

I, Josh Frydenberg, Treasurer, make the following rules.

Dated  16 July 2020

Josh Frydenberg

Treasurer

Contents

1  Name 

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Rules 2020

1  Name

  This instrument is the Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Amendment Rules (No. 6) 2020.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Rules 2020

1  After section 18A

Insert:

18B  Confirmation of giving of information—notice to Australian government agencies and local governing bodies

 (1) This section applies if an Australian government agency or local governing body has notified the Commissioner in the approved form of information relating to an entity’s entitlement to jobkeeper payments for one or more fortnights.

 (2) The Commissioner must give the Australian government agency or local governing body a notice in writing stating that, in the Commissioner’s opinion, the information:

 (a) satisfies the requirement in subsection (3); or

 (b) does not satisfy that requirement.

 (3) For the purposes of subsection (2), the information satisfies the requirement in this subsection if it is comprised of any of the following:

 (a) information that the entity gave to the Commissioner;

 (b) information that the Commissioner gave to the entity.

 (4) The Commissioner must give the notice under subsection (2) within a reasonable time after receiving the notification from the Australian government agency or local governing body.