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Industry Research and Development (Small Business Programs) Amendment Instrument 2022

I, Julie Collins, Minister for Housing, Minister for Homelessness and Minister for Small Business, make the following instrument.

Dated  23 November 2022

 

Julie Collins

Minister for Housing

Minister for Homelessness

Minister for Small Business

 

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Industry Research and Development (BusinessBalance Program) Instrument 2020

Industry Research and Development (Small Business Debt Helpline Program) Instrument 2022

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Industry Research and Development (Small Business Programs) Amendment Instrument 2022.

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.

 

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Industry Research and Development Act 1986.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

 

Industry Research and Development (BusinessBalance Program) Instrument 2020

1  Section 4

Insert:

ABN has the meaning given by the A New Tax System (Australian Business Number) Act 1999.

2  Paragraph 5(2)(a)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

 (a)  for the on-going delivery of the NewAccess for Small Business Owners program by Beyond Blue Limited (ABN 87 093 865 840); and

3  Subsection 5(3)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

 (3) The purpose of the program is to provide mental health and financial wellbeing support to Australian small business owners to help them manage the pressures associated with running a business.

Industry Research and Development (Small Business Debt Helpline Program) Instrument 2022

4  Section 4

Insert:

ABN has the meaning given by the A New Tax System (Australian Business Number) Act 1999.

5  Subsection 5(2)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

 (2) The program provides funding, by way of a grant to Financial Counselling Australia Ltd (ABN 67 073 167 361), to fund:

 (a) a national small business financial counselling service, delivered by telephone or by way of the internet; and

 (b) a consultation service for financial counsellors to better enable them to support small businesses, delivered by telephone or by way of the internet.