Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Agriculture and Water Resources Measures No. 1) Regulations 2018 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Agriculture and Water Resources Measures No. 1) Regulations 2018

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 21 June 2018

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Agriculture and Water Resources Measures No. 1) Regulations 2018.

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.	23 June 2018

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Act 1997.

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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997

1. 1

   In the appropriate position in Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert:

284	Biosecurity systems improvement, capacity building and training	To strengthen biosecurity in Australia and other countries by addressing biosecurity threats overseas, including by improving the capacity of Australia’s trading partners and other countries to respond to biosecurity threats by assisting officials from those countries to: (a) attend international biosecurity fora in Australia and overseas; and (b) participate in capacity‑building training and other related activities in Australia and overseas. This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing funding or support for activities relating to: (a) interstate or overseas trade and commerce; or (b) quarantine; or (c) aliens (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xix) of the Constitution); or (d) places, persons, matters or things external to Australia or matters affecting Australia’s relations with foreign countries; or (e) matters affecting Australia’s relations with the islands of the Pacific.
285	Priority pest and disease planning, surveillance and response	To support the following measures to reduce the likelihood of an exotic pest or disease entering Australia and mitigate the impacts of any such pest or disease that succeeds in breaching Australia’s borders: (a) developing and implementing national action plans for Australia’s priority pests and diseases, including developing diagnostic tools and approaches to improve surveillance techniques; (b) intelligence gathering, surveillance and capacity building in other countries for pest and disease control; (c) developing Australia’s diagnostic capacity for identifying plant and animal pests and diseases, including by providing support for the operational costs of the Australian Animal Health Laboratory; (d) the Australian foot and mouth disease vaccine bank; (e) biosecurity‑related activities in areas of Commonwealth responsibility, including certain Territories and Commonwealth‑held land. This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing funding: (a) in relation to trade and commerce with other countries, or among the States and Territories; or (b) for measures in connection with quarantine; or (c) in relation to places, persons, matters or things external to Australia; or (d) for measures to give effect to Australia’s obligations under the Convention on Biological Diversity, particularly Article 8(h); or (e) by way of grants of financial assistance to a State or Territory; or (f) in, or in relation to, a Territory; or (g) in, or in relation to, a Commonwealth place; or (h) for activities done in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth; or (i) for measures that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation.