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1998
The Parliament of
the
Commonwealth of
Australia
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first
time
Rural
Adjustment Amendment Bill 1998
No. ,
1998
(Agriculture, Fisheries and
Forestry)
A Bill for an Act to amend the
Rural Adjustment Act 1992, and for related purposes
ISBN: 0642 378908
Contents
A Bill for an Act to amend the Rural Adjustment Act
1992, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Rural Adjustment Amendment Act
1998.
(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act commences on the day on which it
receives the Royal Assent.
(2) If the Public Service Act 1998 commences on or before the
commencement of Schedule 1, items 11 and 12 of that Schedule commence
immediately after the commencement of that Schedule. In any other case, those
items commence immediately after the commencement of that Act.
Subject to section 2, each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this
Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to
its terms.
1 Title
Omit “a Rural Adjustment Scheme”, substitute
“rural adjustment”.
2 Section 4
Insert:
Farm Business Improvement Program means the program
(established by the Commonwealth) under which support relating to the
improvement of farm business management skills is provided.
3 Section 4 (at the end of the definition of
State component of the Rural Adjustment Scheme)
Add “under Part 3”.
4 Part 3 (heading)
Repeal the heading, substitute:
5 Subsections 20A(1) and
(2)
After “adjustment”, insert “(other than the Farm Business
Improvement Program)”.
6 At the end of section 20E
Add “(other than the Farm Business Improvement
Program)”.
7 Subsection 21(1)
Omit “an agreement between the Commonwealth and that State relating
to rural adjustment”, substitute “an agreement under this Division
between the Commonwealth and that State relating to rural adjustment (other than
the Farm Business Improvement Program)”.
8 Part 4 (heading)
Repeal the heading, substitute:
9 After Part 3
Insert:
(1) The Minister may, on behalf of the Commonwealth, enter into a written
agreement with a person (other than a State) for the Commonwealth to make one or
more grants of money to the person for purposes relating to the Farm Business
Improvement Program. A grant is subject to such terms and conditions as are set
out in the agreement and this Division.
(2) Unless the Minister otherwise determines, an agreement under this
section must include provisions relating to the following matters:
(a) performance requirements;
(b) outcomes and/or targets;
(c) performance indicators;
(d) review and evaluation.
This subsection does not, by implication, limit the generality of
subsection (1).
(3) Payments by the Commonwealth under agreements made under this section
are to be made out of money appropriated by the Parliament for the
purpose.
The Minister may, by writing, delegate all or any of his or her powers
under section 22AA to an officer of the Department who holds or performs the
duties of a Senior Executive Service office.
An amount repayable by a person to the Commonwealth under an agreement
under section 22AA is a debt due by the person to the Commonwealth.
The Commonwealth may enter into an agreement with a State relating to the
Farm Business Improvement Program.
(1) The payments (including advances) by the Commonwealth to a State
provided for in an agreement under this Division between the Commonwealth and
that State relating to the Farm Business Improvement Program may be made to that
State, by way of financial assistance, on the terms and conditions contained in
the agreement and this Division.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), the financial assistance is to be provided
on the basis that the Commonwealth contributes 50%, and the State 50%, of the
assistance provided to farmers or other persons under the schemes of support
relating to the Farm Business Improvement Program that are, from time to time,
in force under the agreement between the Commonwealth and the State.
(3) The Commonwealth and the State may jointly determine that subsection
(2) does not apply in relation to a particular matter arising under the
agreement.
(4) Payments by the Commonwealth under agreements made under this Division
are to be made out of money appropriated by the Parliament for the
purpose.
(1) Unless the Minister otherwise determines, an agreement under this
Division must include provisions relating to the following matters:
(a) performance requirements;
(b) outcomes and/or targets;
(c) performance indicators;
(d) review and evaluation.
(2) The Minister may, by writing, delegate all or any of his or her powers
under subsection (1) to an officer of the Department who holds or performs the
duties of a Senior Executive Service office.
(3) This section does not, by implication, limit the generality of section
22AD or 22AE.
An amount repayable by a State to the Commonwealth under an agreement
under this Division is a debt due by the State to the Commonwealth.
10 Transitional—certain agreements between
the Commonwealth and the States
An agreement relating to the Farm Business Improvement Program made between
the Commonwealth and a State under section 20E of the Rural Adjustment Act
1992 before the commencement of this item is taken, on and after that
commencement:
(a) to have been made under section 22AD of that Act; and
(b) not to have been made under section 20E of that Act.
11 Section 22AB
Omit “an officer of the Department who holds or performs the duties
of a Senior Executive Service office”, substitute “an SES employee,
or acting SES employee, in the Department”.
12 Subsection 22AF(2)
Omit “an officer of the Department who holds or performs the duties
of a Senior Executive Service office”, substitute “an SES employee,
or acting SES employee, in the Department”.