Treasury Laws Amendment (Miscellaneous and Technical Amendments) Regulations 2024 (Cth)

Treasury Laws Amendment (Miscellaneous and Technical Amendments) Regulations 2024

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 24 April 2024

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Stephen Jones

Assistant Treasurer

Minister for Financial Services

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Treasury Laws Amendment (Miscellaneous and Technical Amendments) Regulations 2024.

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. Sections 1 to 4 and anything in this instrument not elsewhere covered by this table	The day after this instrument is registered.	25 April 2024
2. Schedule 1, Part 1	The day after this instrument is registered.	25 April 2024
3. Schedule 1, Part 2	The first 1 January, 1 April, 1 July or 1 October to occur after the day this instrument is registered.	1 July 2024
4. Schedule 1, Part 3	The later of: (a) the start of the day after this instrument is registered; and (b) the commencement of Schedule 4 to the Treasury Laws Amendment (2023 Measures No. 3) Act 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 following:

1. (a)

   the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001;

2. (b)

   the Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997;

3. (c)

   the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993;

4. (d)

   the Taxation Administration Act 1953.

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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1Miscellaneous and technical amendmentsPart 1Amendments commencing day after registrationDivision 1Australian Securities and Investments Commission Regulations 2001

Australian Securities and Investments Commission Regulations 2001

1

Regulation 8B

Repeal the regulation.

Division 2Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Regulations 1994

Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Regulations 1994

1. 2

   Subregulation 1.03(1) (definition of unfunded public sector superannuation scheme)

Omit “declared to be an unfunded defined benefits superannuation scheme under regulation 2A of the Superannuation Contributions Tax (Assessment and Collection) Regulations 1997”, substitute “an unfunded defined benefits superannuation scheme (within the meaning of the Superannuation Contributions Tax (Assessment and Collection) Act 1997)”.

Part 2Amendments commencing first day of next quarterDivision 1CDEP Scheme

Retirement Savings Accounts Regulations 1997

1. 3

   Subregulation 4.01(2) (paragraph (e) of the definition of Commonwealth income support payment)

Repeal the paragraph.

4

In the appropriate position in Part 7

Insert:

7.14Amendment made by the Treasury Laws Amendment (Miscellaneous and Technical Amendments) Regulations 2024

Despite the repeal of paragraph (e) of the definition of Commonwealth income support payment in subregulation 4.01(2) of these Regulations made by Division 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Treasury Laws Amendment (Miscellaneous and Technical Amendments) Regulations 2024, that paragraph, as in force immediately before the commencement of the repeal, continues to apply on and after that commencement in relation to a payment made before that commencement.

Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Regulations 1994

1. 5

   Subregulation 6.01(2) (paragraph (e) of the definition of Commonwealth income support payment)

Repeal the paragraph.

6

In the appropriate position in Part 14

Insert:

Division 14.35—Transitional arrangements arising out of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Miscellaneous and Technical Amendments) Regulations 2024

14.37Amendment made by the Treasury Laws Amendment (Miscellaneous and Technical Amendments) Regulations 2024

Despite the repeal of paragraph (e) of the definition of Commonwealth income support payment in subregulation 6.01(2) of these Regulations made by Division 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Treasury Laws Amendment (Miscellaneous and Technical Amendments) Regulations 2024, that paragraph, as in force immediately before the commencement of the repeal, continues to apply on and after that commencement in relation to a payment made before that commencement.

Division 2Taxation Administration Regulations 2017

Taxation Administration Regulations 2017

7

Section 67 (table item 8)

Omit “Black Economy”, substitute “Shadow Economy”.

Part 3Amendments commencing at other times: First Home Super Saver Scheme

Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Regulations 1994

1. 8

   Subregulation 5.01(1) (at the end of the definition of superannuation system)

Add:

1. ; and (j)

   the Commissioner of Taxation in the Commissioner of Taxation’s role as the maker of payments to a superannuation provider under subsection 131‑80(1) or (3) in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953.