Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Prescribed Authorities) Regulations 2020 (Cth)

Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Prescribed Authorities) Regulations 2020

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 20 August 2020

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Prescribed Authorities) Regulations 2020.

2Commencement

1. (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.	27 August 2020

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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

1. (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.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Electoral and Referendum Regulation 2016

1. 1

   Clause 1 of Schedule 1 (cell at table item 18, column headed “Agency or authority”)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

Services Australia

1. 2

   Clause 1 of Schedule 1 (at the end of the table)

Add:

28 Agency covered by section 117 of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (the Statutory Agency consisting of the Chief Executive Officer and staff) preventing, detecting or investigating fraud and non‑compliance matters in relation to the Agency’s purposes (within the meaning of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013)