Australia’s Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) (Consequential Amendments) Act 2020

No. 117, 2020

An Act to deal with consequential matters in connection with the Australia’s Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Act 2020, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title 2

2 Commencement 2

3 Schedules 2

Schedule 1—Amendments 3

Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977 3

Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975 3

An Act to deal with consequential matters in connection with the Australia’s Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Act 2020, and for related purposes

[Assented to 10 December 2020]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act is the Australia’s Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) (Consequential Amendments) Act 2020.

2 Commencement 1

Each provision of this Act 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	Commencement information	Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table	The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.	10 December 2020
2. Schedule 1	At the same time as section 1 of the Australia’s Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Act 2020 commences.	10 December 2020

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

2

Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3 Schedules

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Amendments

Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977

1 At the end of Schedule 1

Add:

; (zh) decisions under the Australia’s Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Act 2020.

Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975

2 After paragraph 122(1)(a)

Insert:

aa

(aa) the Australia’s Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Act 2020;

3 Application of item 2

The amendment made by item 2 of this Schedule applies, after the commencement of that item, in relation to protected information obtained before, on or after the commencement of that item.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 3 September 2020

Senate on 12 November 2020]

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