Industry Research and Development (Water for Fodder Program) Instrument 2019
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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia
Industry Research and Development (Water for Fodder Program) Instrument 2019
I, David Littleproud, Minister for Water Resources, Drought, Rural Finance, Natural Disaster and Emergency Management, make the following instrument.
Dated 5 December 2019
David Littleproud
Minister for Water Resources, Drought, Rural Finance, Natural Disaster and Emergency Management
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 (Water for Fodder Program) Instrument 2019.
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
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- The whole of this instrument The day after this instrument is registered. 7 December 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.
(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.
Desertification Convention means the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa, done at Paris on 17 June 1994.
Note: The Convention is in Australian Treaty Series 2000 No. 18 ([2000] ATS 18) and could in 2019 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (http://www.austlii.edu.au).
program means the Water for Fodder Program.
5 Prescribed program
(1) For the purposes of subsection 33(1) of the Act, the program is prescribed.
(2) The program is for the administration by the Commonwealth of the sale of water allocations by South Australia to drought‑affected farmers in the southern Murray‑Darling Basin, including by:
(a) entering into arrangements or understandings with such farmers, including enforceable undertakings provided by such farmers in favour of the Commonwealth (whether or not provided under a deed poll); and
(b) enforcing or otherwise giving effect to such arrangements, understandings or enforceable undertakings.
(3) The purpose of the program is to provide support to drought‑affected farmers in the southern Murray‑Darling Basin by assisting them to produce fodder.
6 Specified legislative power
For the purposes of subsection 33(3) of the Act, the power of the Parliament to make laws with respect to external affairs (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxix) of the Constitution) is specified, as it relates to measures to give effect to Australia’s obligations under the Desertification Convention, particularly Articles 4 and 5.