Industry Research and Development (Enhancing Australia’s Science and Research Leadership in the Asia-Pacific Program) Instrument 2023 (Cth)

Industry Research and Development (Enhancing Australia’s Science and Research Leadership in the Asia-Pacific Program) Instrument 2023

I, Ed Husic, Minister for Industry and Science, make the following instrument.

Dated: 7 June 2023

Ed Husic

Minister for Industry and Science

Contents

1  Name........................................................................................................................................ 1

2  Commencement........................................................................................................................ 1

3  Authority.................................................................................................................................. 1

4  Definitions................................................................................................................................ 1

5  Prescribed program.................................................................................................................. 1

6  Specified legislative power....................................................................................................... 2

1  Name

This instrument is the Industry Research and Development (Enhancing Australia’s Science and Research Leadership in the Asia-Pacific Program) Instrument 2023.

2  Commencement

(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Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 section 33 of the Industry Research and Development Act 1986.

4  Definitions

In this instrument:

Act means the Industry Research and Development Act 1986.

Australian Academy of Science means the Australian Academy of Science (ABN 90 700 613 342).

program: see subsection 5(1).

5  Prescribed program

(1) For the purposes of subsection 33(1) of the Act, the Enhancing Australia’s Science and Research Leadership in the Asia-Pacific Region Program (the program) is prescribed.

(2)  The program provides funding to the Australian Academy of Science to undertake activities in its capacity as host of the International Science Council Regional Presence for Asia and the Pacific, including:

(a)   stimulating cross-national research and translating knowledge into practice to support disaster risk resilience and capacity development in the Pacific;

(b)   building a network of Pacific leaders and practitioners trained to deliver advice at the science-policy interface within and for the benefit of the Pacific region;

(c)   collaboration and partnership development, workshops and conferences, training and skills development, and associated promotional, monitoring, evaluation and reporting activities;

(d)   funding and managing regional collaborative grants, projects and initiatives that support engagement in the Asia-Pacific region.

(3)  The purpose of the program is to deepen Australia’s engagement with countries in the Asia-Pacific region in the areas of science policy and scientific research of international significance.

6  Specified legislative power

For the purposes of subsection 33(3) of the Act, the power of the Parliament to make laws with respect to the following are specified:

(a)   external affairs (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxix) of the Constitution);

(b)   the Pacific islands power (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxx) of the Constitution).