Australia’s Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Amendment (Foreign Entities) Rules 2024

I, Penny Wong, Minister for Foreign Affairs, make the following rules.

Dated 28th November 2024

Penny Wong

Minister for Foreign Affairs

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Australia’s Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Rules 2020

1  Name

  This instrument is the Australia’s Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Amendment (Foreign Entities) Rules 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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Australia’s Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Act 2020.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Australia’s Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements)  Rules 2020

1  After Part 2

Insert:

Part 2AA—Foreign entities

5A  Entities prescribed to be foreign entities—universities in Russia or Belarus

  For the purposes of paragraph 8(1)(j) of the Act, a university that is located in Russia or Belarus is prescribed.