Industry Research and Development (Small Business Debt Helpline Program) Instrument 2022 (Cth)

Industry Research and Development (Small Business Debt Helpline Program) Instrument 2022

I, Stuart Robert, Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business, as delegate for the Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction, make the following instrument.

Dated   14 March 2022           

Stuart Robert

Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business

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 (Small Business Debt Helpline Program) Instrument 2022.

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Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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

program has the meaning given by section 5 of this instrument.

5  Prescribed program

(1)For the purposes of subsection 33(1) of the Act, the Small Business Debt Helpline Program (the program) is prescribed.

(2)The program provides funding, by way of a grant to Financial Counselling Australia, to fund a national telephone service that offers financial counselling to small business owners.

6  Specified legislative power

(1)For the purposes of subsection 33(3) of the Act, the power of the Parliament to make laws with respect to postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution) is specified.