This instrument is the Payment Times Reporting (Approval of Form and Manner) Instrument 2024.

(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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Payment Times Reporting 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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

5 Definitions

Note: Expressions have the same meaning in this instrument as in the Payment Times Reporting Act 2020 as in force from time to time—see paragraph 13(1)(b) of the Legislation Act 2003.

In this instrument:

entity information has the meaning given by the Payment Times Reporting Rules 2024.

Payment Times Reporting Portal means the website maintained by the Department for the submission of payment times reports by reporting entities to the Regulator.

Note: At the time this instrument commenced, the Payment Times Reporting Portal was available at https://www.paymenttimes.gov.au.

the Act means the Payment Times Reporting Act 2020.

Part 2—Approval of form and manner

6 Approval of form and manner of giving notices etc

(1) Under subsections 10H(4), 10S(3), 14(7) and 27A(3) of the Act, the following form and manner is approved in relation to the giving to the Regulator of a notice, information, report or application covered by subsection (2):

(a) in the form of the relevant template available on the Payment Times Reporting Portal; and

(b) electronically using the Payment Times Reporting Portal.

(2) This section applies to:

(a) a notice given under subsection 10H(2) of the Act (entity ceased to be a reporting entity); and

(b) entity information; and

(d) an application under any of the following provisions of the Act:

(i) subsection 10C(1) (application for Regulator to make a volunteering entity determination);

(ii) subsection 10F(1) (application for Regulator to make a subsidiary reporting entity determination);

(iii) subsection 10M(1) (application for Regulator to make a reporting nominee determination);

(iv) subsection 10Q(1) (application for Regulator to make an exempt entity determination);

(v) subsection 13A(1) (extensions of time of 28 days or less);

(vi) subsection 13B(1) (other extensions of time).