1Industry Research and Development (Australia-United States Partnership in Landsat Next Program) Instrument 2024

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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

Industry Research and Development (Australia‑United States Partnership in Landsat Next Program) Instrument 2024

 

I, Madeleine King, Minister for Resources, make the following instrument.

Dated: 12 August 2024

Madeleine King

Minister for Resources

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Prescribed program

6  Specified legislative power

 

 

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Industry Research and Development (Australia-United States Partnership in Landsat Next Program) Instrument 2024.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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: see subsection 5(1).

5  Prescribed program

 (1) For the purposes of subsection 33(1) of the Act, the Australia‑United States Partnership in Landsat Next Program (the program) is prescribed.

 (2) The program provides funding to establish an Australia-United States partnership in the Landsat Next satellite mission, including by providing funding for the following:

 (a) Australian data hub infrastructure, including Australian data processing and distribution systems;

 (b) the facilitation of the use of data obtained from the Landsat arrangements, including data product and tool creation, international collaboration, advocacy, education and outreach;

 (c) the use of advanced technologies to analyse current and future Landsat data;

 (d) the facilitation of access for countries in the Indo-Pacific region to the data;

 (e) establishing, operating and maintaining a fit-for-purpose ground network, including satellite ground stations and associated infrastructure.

 (3) The purpose of the program is to enable Australia to become a core partner in the Landsat Next satellite mission’s ground network, to secure open access to past and future Landsat data and to establish, operate and maintain an upgraded Australian‑owned and operated ground station in the Northern Territory.

6  Specified legislative power

  For the purposes of subsection 33(3) of the Act, the powers of the Parliament to make laws with respect to the following are specified:

 (a) external affairs (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxix) of the Constitution);

 (b) enterprises and activities that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation (see paragraph 51(xxxix) and section 61 of the Constitution);

 (c) the government of a Territory (within the meaning of section 122 of the Constitution).