Industry Research and Development (Eat Seafood Australia Program) Instrument 2020

I, Jonathon Duniam, as delegate of the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, make the following instrument.

Dated 25 August 2020

Jonathon Duniam

Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management
Assistant Minister for Regional Tourism
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Definitions

5 Prescribed program

6 Specified legislative power

1  Name

  This instrument is the Industry Research and Development (Eat Seafood Australia Program) Instrument 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 section 33 of the Industry Research and Development Act 1986.

4  Definitions

  In this instrument:

Act means the Industry Research and Development Act 1986.

program: see subsection 5(1).

5  Prescribed program

 (1) For the purposes of subsection 33(1) of the Act, the Eat Seafood Australia Program (the program) is prescribed.

 (2) The program provides funding in the form of a grant to Seafood Industry Australia Limited to deliver a 12‑month national marketing campaign that encourages domestic consumption of Australian seafood.

 (3) The purpose of the program is to stimulate a boost in domestic demand for Australian seafood in order to:

 (a) support the seafood industry’s survival through the national crisis resulting from the coronavirus known as COVID‑19; and

 (b) bolster a strong, industry‑wide recovery as markets normalise.

6  Specified legislative power

  For the purposes of subsection 33(3) of the Act, the powers of the Parliament to make laws with respect to the following are specified:

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

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