Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Amendment Rules 2023

I, Mark Dreyfus KC, Attorney‑General, make the following rules.

Dated 28 June 2023

Mark Dreyfus KC

Attorney‑General

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Rules 2018

1  Name

  This instrument is the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Amendment Rules 2023.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Act 2018.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Rules 2018

1  At the end of the instrument

Add:

Part 4—Communicating and dealing with scheme information

8  Other purposes for communicating information

  For the purposes of item 4 of the table in subsection 53(1) of the Act:

 (a) a purpose specified in an item in column 1 of the table in this section is a purpose for which the Secretary may communicate scheme information; and

 (b) a person specified in column 2 of that item is a person to whom that information may be communicated for that purpose.