Public Works Committee Legislation Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019 (Cth)

Public Works Committee Legislation Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019

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 March 2019

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance and the Public Service

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Public Works Committee Legislation Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019.

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 March 2019

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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

1. (a)

   the Defence Force Discipline Appeals Act 1955;

2. (b)

   the Migration Act 1958;

3. (c)

   the Public Works Committee Act 1969.

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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Defence Force Discipline Appeals Regulation 2016

1

Section 16

Omit “Schedule 2 to the Public Works Committee Regulations 1969”, substitute “Part 4 of the Public Works Committee Regulation 2016”.

Migration Regulations 1994

2

Subregulation 5.07(1)

Omit “Schedule 2 to the Public Works Committee Regulations as in force from time to time”, substitute “Part 4 of the Public Works Committee Regulation 2016”.

Public Works Committee Regulation 2016

3

Section 7 (table item 2)

Omit “ASC Engineering Pty Ltd”, substitute “Australian Naval Infrastructure Pty Ltd”.

4

Section 7 (table item 3)

Repeal the item.

5

At the end of Part 2

Add:

7AThreshold amount for Defence work

For the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of threshold amount in subsection 18(9) of the Act, the threshold amount for a public work for defence purposes is $75,000,000.

6

After Part 4

Insert:

Part 5—Transitional provisions

13Change to threshold amount for Defence work

The amendment made by item 5 of Schedule 1 to the Public Works Committee Legislation Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019 does not apply in relation to a work referred to the Committee under section 18 of the Act before that item commenced.