{"id":"F2021L00973","name":"Industry Research and Development (Regional Decentralisation Agenda—Securing Raw Materials Program) Instrument 2021","slug":"industry-research-and-development-regional-decentralisation-agenda-securing-raw-materials-program-in","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":440926,"registerId":"F2021L00973-fast-fetch-1775956374932","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Industry Research and Development (Regional Decentralisation Agenda—Securing Raw Materials Program) Instrument 2021","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nIndustry Research and Development (Regional Decentralisation Agenda—Securing Raw Materials Program) Instrument 2021\n\nI, Andrew Gee, as delegate of the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, make the following instrument.\n\nDated 24 June 2021\n\nAndrew Gee\n\nMinister for Decentralisation and Regional Education\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nContents\n\n1 Name\n\n2 Commencement\n\n3 Authority\n\n4 Definitions\n\n5 Prescribed program\n\n6 Specified legislative power\n\n7 Eligibility criteria relating to program\n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Industry Research and Development (Regional Decentralisation Agenda—Securing Raw Materials Program) Instrument 2021.\n\n2  Commencement\n\n (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.\n\n \n\n- Commencement information\n- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3\n- Provisions Commencement Date/Details\n- 1. The whole of this instrument The day after this instrument is registered. 10 July 2021\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.\n\n (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.\n\n3  Authority\n\n  This instrument is made under section 33 of the Industry Research and Development Act 1986.\n\n4  Definitions\n\n  In this instrument:\n\nAct means the Industry Research and Development Act 1986.\n\nprogram: see subsection 5(1).\n\n5  Prescribed program\n\n (1) For the purposes of subsection 33(1) of the Act, the Regional Decentralisation Agenda—Securing Raw Materials Program (the program) is prescribed.\n\n (2) The program provides funding for businesses to do one or more of the following activities:\n\n (a) relocate to regional areas;\n\n (b) establish new operations, branches or outposts in regional areas;\n\n (c) partner with regional universities or research organisations to conduct research and development in relation to locally sourced raw materials;\n\n (d) commercialise the outcomes of that research and development;\n\n (e) establish new facilities in regional areas to extract, process, use or otherwise add value to locally sourced raw materials.\n\n (3) The purposes of the program are to:\n\n (a) expand industry in, and the economic resilience of, regional Australia; and\n\n (b) establish, secure and strengthen the supply of innovative or improved raw materials to Australian industry; and\n\n (c) increase the competitiveness and productivity of businesses through access to innovative or improved raw materials; and\n\n (d) improve the research, investment and economic capacity of regional Australia.\n\n6  Specified legislative powers\n\n  For the purposes of subsection 33(3) of the Act, the power of the Parliament under paragraph 51(xx) of the Constitution to make laws with respect to foreign corporations and trading or financial corporations formed within the limits of the Commonwealth is specified.\n\n7 Eligibility criteria relating to program\n\n  For the purposes of subsection 33(4) of the Act, the eligibility criteria relating to the program include the requirement that applicants must be trading corporations to which paragraph 51(xx) of the Constitution applies.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument does not change the substantive scope of the Industry Research and Development Act 1986; it prescribes a specific program (instrument s5), specifies the constitutional power relied upon (instrument s6) and sets an eligibility requirement (instrument s7). It stays within the delegated power to prescribe programs under s33 of the Act rather than altering the Act itself."},"complexity_factors":["Delegated-legislation form: instrument operates under s33 of the Industry Research and Development Act 1986 (see instrument s3), so implementation relies on the parent Act.","Constitutional specification: explicitly invokes paragraph 51(xx) as the legislative head of power (instrument s6), narrowing legal basis and eligibility.","Eligibility constraint: requires applicants to be trading corporations subject to paragraph 51(xx) (instrument s7), which limits who can apply and may create exclusion issues for non-corporate applicants.","Program activity scope: lists multiple funded activities (relocation, new operations, R&D partnerships, commercialisation, new facilities) (instrument s5(2)), increasing administrative assessment complexity.","Absence of procedural detail: the instrument prescribes purpose and eligibility but does not set application, assessment or reporting procedures, so operational rules will be set elsewhere (implicit from instrument text).","Commencement and temporal effect: single specified commencement date and note about table editing (instrument s2) add minor administrative timing requirements."],"plain_english_summary":"*Regional Decentralisation Agenda—Securing Raw Materials Program* is prescribed under the Industry Research and Development Act 1986 to provide funding for businesses that move to or set up operations in regional Australia and that develop, commercialise or add value to locally sourced raw materials. It limits applicants to trading corporations (constitutional paragraph 51(xx)) and is intended to strengthen regional industry, secure raw material supplies and improve business competitiveness."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument remains tightly focused on its original purpose of establishing the Securing Raw Materials Program. It does not expand beyond the specific policy objectives of regional decentralisation and raw materials security outlined in section 5(3)."},"complexity_factors":["Very short instrument — only 7 sections spanning approximately 2 pages","Minimal defined terms — only 2 definitions in section 4 ('Act' and 'program')","No cross-references to other legislation beyond the parent Act (Industry Research and Development Act 1986)","Simple structure — linear progression from name/authority through to eligibility criteria","No conditional logic, exceptions, or nested provisions","Straightforward eligibility criterion — single requirement that applicants must be trading corporations under constitutional paragraph 51(xx)"],"plain_english_summary":"The instrument establishes the Regional Decentralisation Agenda—Securing Raw Materials Program, a government funding scheme that supports trading corporations to relocate or expand into regional Australia, collaborate with regional universities and research bodies, commercialise research on local raw materials, and build extraction or processing capacity. \n\nIt targets businesses and regional research partners to boost regional economies, strengthen domestic raw‑materials supply chains, and is confined to trading corporations under the Commonwealth corporations power (s51(xx))."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/industry-research-and-development-regional-decentralisation-agenda-securing-raw-materials-program-in","history":"/api/acts/industry-research-and-development-regional-decentralisation-agenda-securing-raw-materials-program-in/history","analysis":"/api/acts/industry-research-and-development-regional-decentralisation-agenda-securing-raw-materials-program-in/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/industry-research-and-development-regional-decentralisation-agenda-securing-raw-materials-program-in/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/industry-research-and-development-regional-decentralisation-agenda-securing-raw-materials-program-in/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/industry-research-and-development-regional-decentralisation-agenda-securing-raw-materials-program-in/documents"}}