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Electronic Transactions Amendment Regulations 2024

I, the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 12 September 2024

Sam Mostyn AC

Governor‑General

By Her Excellency’s Command

Mark Dreyfus KC

Attorney‑General

1 Name

This instrument is the Electronic Transactions Amendment Regulations 2024.

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.	17 September 2024

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Electronic Transactions Act 1999.

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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Electronic Transactions Regulations 2020

1 Clause 1 of Schedule 1 (table items 8 and 9)

Repeal the items.

2 Clause 1 of Schedule 1 (table item 19, column 1, paragraph (b))

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

(b) Part XV (other than sections 184 and 184A, subparagraphs 194(1A)(a)(ii) and (iii) and paragraph 194(1A)(d));

3 Clause 1 of Schedule 1 (table item 19, column 1, paragraph (c))

After “XVA”, insert “(other than subsections 200BA(1) and (1A))”.

4 Clause 1 of Schedule 1 (table item 19, column 1, paragraph (d))

After “(5)”, insert “and 227(4)”.

5 Clause 1 of Schedule 1 (cell at table item 78, column 1)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

The following provisions of the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984:

(a) Part III (other than subsections 16A(1), (2), (4) and (5) and 51(4));

(b) Part IV (other than subparagraphs 65(1A)(a)(ii) and (iii) and paragraph 65(1A)(d));