Federal Financial Relations (Treasury) Delegations 2022

Federal Financial Relations (Treasury) Delegations 2022

I, Jim Chalmers, Treasurer, make the following delegations.

Dated   15 December 2022

Dr Jim Chalmers

Treasurer

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Name 

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

5  Definitions

Part 2—Delegations under the Act

6  Delegations relating to the payment arrangements of grants to the states

Schedule 1—Repeals

Federal Financial Relations (Minister) Delegation 2018

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Name

  This instrument is the Federal Financial Relations (Treasury) Delegations 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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

5  Definitions

Note: Paragraph 13(1)(b) of the Legislation Act 2003 has the effect that expressions have the same meaning in this instrument as in the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 as in force from time to time.

  In this instrument:

the Act means the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009.

Treasury means the Department of the Treasury.

Part 2—Delegations under the Act

6  Delegations relating to the payment arrangements of grants to the states

 (1) Under subsection 23(1) of the Act, each person holding, occupying or performing the duties of each of the following offices or positions in the Treasury, is delegated the Minister’s powers under sections 17 and 19 of the Act:

 (a) the Secretary;

 (b) an SES employee.

Note: Section 17 of the Act is about making advance payments to the states and section 19 is about affixing amounts, and times of payment, of financial assistance to the states.

Schedule 1—Repeals

Federal Financial Relations (Minister) Delegation 2018

1  The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.