Industry Research and Development (Boosting Australia’s Diesel Storage Program) Instrument 2021

I, Angus Taylor, Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, make the following instrument.

Dated 20 May 2021

Angus Taylor

Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Definitions

5 Prescribed program

6 Specified legislative power

7 Eligibility criteria relating to program

1  Name

  This instrument is the Industry Research and Development (Boosting Australia’s Diesel Storage Program) Instrument 2021.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Boosting Australia’s Diesel Storage Program (the program) is prescribed.

 (2) The program provides funding for grants to support activities that increase Australia’s diesel oil storage capacity.

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) trade and commerce with other countries, and among the States (within the meaning of paragraph 51(i) of the Constitution);

 (b) foreign corporations, and trading or financial corporations formed within the limits of the Commonwealth (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xx) of the Constitution).

7  Eligibility criteria relating to program

  For the purposes of subsection 33(4) of the Act, the eligibility criteria relating to the program include the requirement that applicants must be trading or financial corporations to which paragraph 51(xx) of the Constitution applies.