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Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Agriculture, Water and the Environment Measures No. 5) Regulations 2020

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), GovernorGeneral of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 20 August 2020

David Hurley

GovernorGeneral

By His Excellency’s Command

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance

 

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997

1  Name

  This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Agriculture, Water and the Environment Measures No. 5) Regulations 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.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

The day after this instrument is registered.

21 August 2020

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Act 1997.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1Amendments

 

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997

1  In the appropriate position in Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert:

 

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Payments to Plant Health Australia Limited

To support Plant Health Australia Limited to:

(a) facilitate and coordinate governmentindustry partnerships on plant biosecurity matters, plant health, plant pests, diseases and weeds; and

(b) facilitate and coordinate emergency responses to plant biosecurity matters, threats to plant health and incursions of plant pests, diseases and weeds; and

(c) improve Australia’s preparedness and capability to identify, respond to and manage plant biosecurity matters, threats to plant health, plant pests, diseases and weeds; and

(d) develop, manage and coordinate national policies and programs on plant biosecurity matters, plant health, plant pests, diseases and weeds.

This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to supporting measures:

(a) in connection with the use of postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution); or

(b) in connection with quarantine; or

(c) to give effect to Australia’s international obligations under the Convention on Biological Diversity (particularly Article 8(h)); or

(d) relating to places, persons, matters or things external to Australia or matters affecting Australia’s relations with foreign countries; or

(e) that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and that cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation.