Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Amendment Rules 2023 (Cth)

Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Amendment Rules 2023

I, Mark Dreyfus KC, Attorney‑General, make the following rules.

Dated 28 June 2023

Mark Dreyfus KC

Attorney‑General

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Amendment Rules 2023.

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.	1 July 2023

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Act 2018.

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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1Amendments

Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Rules 2018

1

At the end of the instrument

Add:

Part 4—Communicating and dealing with scheme information

8Other purposes for communicating information

For the purposes of item 4 of the table in subsection 53(1) of the Act:

1. (a)

   a purpose specified in an item in column 1 of the table in this section is a purpose for which the Secretary may communicate scheme information; and

2. (b)

   a person specified in column 2 of that item is a person to whom that information may be communicated for that purpose.

Prescribed purposes and persons
Column 1	Column 2
Item	Communication for this purpose:	May be made to:
1	administering the Australia’s Foreign Relations(State and Territory Arrangements) Act 2020	either of the following: (a) the Minister who has responsibility for administering that Act; (b) the Department administered by that Minister.