<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<akomaNtoso xmlns="http://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/ns/akn/3.0">
  <act name="act">
    <meta>
      <identification source="#lex-au">
        <FRBRWork>
          <FRBRthis value="/akn/au/act/2020/37/!main"/>
          <FRBRuri value="/akn/au/act/2020/37"/>
          <FRBRdate date="2020-01-01" name="Generation"/>
          <FRBRauthor href="#parliament"/>
          <FRBRcountry value="au"/>
          <FRBRsubtype value="act"/>
          <FRBRnumber value="37"/>
          <FRBRname value="coronavirus-economic-response-package-(payments-and-benefits)-act-2020"/>
          <FRBRprescriptive value="true"/>
          <FRBRauthoritative value="true"/>
        </FRBRWork>
        <FRBRExpression>
          <FRBRthis value="/akn/au/act/2020/37/eng@2021-08-11/!main"/>
          <FRBRuri value="/akn/au/act/2020/37/eng@2021-08-11"/>
          <FRBRdate date="2021-08-11" name="Generation"/>
          <FRBRauthor href="#parliament"/>
          <FRBRlanguage language="eng"/>
        </FRBRExpression>
        <FRBRManifestation>
          <FRBRthis value="/akn/au/act/2020/37/eng@2021-08-11/!main.akn"/>
          <FRBRuri value="/akn/au/act/2020/37/eng@2021-08-11/!main.akn"/>
          <FRBRdate date="2026-07-14" name="Generation"/>
          <FRBRauthor href="#lex-au"/>
        </FRBRManifestation>
      </identification>
      <lifecycle source="#parliament">
        <eventRef date="2020-01-01" type="generation" eId="evt-creation" source="#coronavirus-economic-response-package-(payments-and-benefits)-act-2020"/>
        <eventRef type="amendment" eId="evt-amd-1" source="/akn/au/act/2020/81"/>
        <eventRef type="amendment" eId="evt-amd-2" source="/akn/au/act/2020/96"/>
        <eventRef type="amendment" eId="evt-amd-3" source="/akn/au/act/2021/79"/>
      </lifecycle>
      <temporalData source="#parliament">
        <temporalGroup eId="tg-1">
          <timeInterval start="#evt-creation"/>
        </temporalGroup>
      </temporalData>
      <analysis source="#lex-au">
        <passiveModifications>
          <textualMod type="substitution" eId="mod-1">
            <source href="#evt-amd-2"/>
            <destination href="#sec-3"/>
          </textualMod>
          <textualMod type="substitution" eId="mod-2">
            <source href="#evt-amd-1"/>
            <destination href="#sec-6"/>
          </textualMod>
          <textualMod type="substitution" eId="mod-3">
            <source href="#evt-amd-2"/>
            <destination href="#sec-6"/>
          </textualMod>
          <textualMod type="substitution" eId="mod-4">
            <source href="#evt-amd-2"/>
            <destination href="#sec-7"/>
          </textualMod>
          <textualMod type="substitution" eId="mod-5">
            <source href="#evt-amd-3"/>
            <destination href="#sec-7"/>
          </textualMod>
          <textualMod type="insertion" eId="mod-6">
            <source href="#evt-amd-2"/>
            <destination href="#sec-21"/>
          </textualMod>
        </passiveModifications>
      </analysis>
      <references source="#lex-au">
        <TLCOrganization eId="parliament" href="/ontology/organization/au/parliament" showAs="Parliament of Australia"/>
        <TLCOrganization eId="lex-au" href="https://github.com/cchew/lex-au" showAs="lex-au"/>
        <TLCRole eId="commissioner" href="/ontology/roles/au/commissioner" showAs="the Commissioner"/>
        <TLCTerm eId="term-approved-form" href="/ontology/term/au/term-approved-form" showAs="approved form"/>
        <TLCTerm eId="term-australia" href="/ontology/term/au/term-australia" showAs="Australia"/>
        <TLCTerm eId="term-commissioner" href="/ontology/term/au/term-commissioner" showAs="Commissioner"/>
        <TLCTerm eId="term-entity" href="/ontology/term/au/term-entity" showAs="entity"/>
        <TLCTerm eId="term-general-interest-charge" href="/ontology/term/au/term-general-interest-charge" showAs="general interest charge"/>
        <TLCTerm eId="term-income-tax-return" href="/ontology/term/au/term-income-tax-return" showAs="income tax return"/>
        <TLCTerm eId="term-income-year" href="/ontology/term/au/term-income-year" showAs="income year"/>
        <TLCTerm eId="term-prescribed-period" href="/ontology/term/au/term-prescribed-period" showAs="prescribed period"/>
        <TLCTerm eId="term-relevant-period" href="/ontology/term/au/term-relevant-period" showAs="relevant period"/>
      </references>
    </meta>
    <preface>
      <p>Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020</p>
      <p>No. 37, 2020</p>
      <p>
        <b>Compilation No. </b>
        <b>3</b>
      </p>
      <p><b>Compilation date:</b><b>	</b>11 August 2021</p>
      <p><b>Includes amendments up to:</b><b>	</b>Act No. 79, 2021</p>
      <p><b>Registered:</b><b>	</b>6 September 2021</p>
      <p>
        <b>About this compilation</b>
      </p>
      <p>
        <b>This compilation</b>
      </p>
      <p>This is a compilation of the <i>Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020</i> that shows the text of the law as amended and in force on 11 August 2021 (the <b><i>compilation date</i></b>).</p>
      <p>The notes at the end of this compilation (the <b><i>endnotes</i></b>) include information about amending laws and the amendment history of provisions of the compiled law.</p>
      <p>
        <b>Uncommenced amendments</b>
      </p>
      <p>The effect of uncommenced amendments is not shown in the text of the compiled law. Any uncommenced amendments affecting the law are accessible on the Legislation Register (www.legislation.gov.au). The details of amendments made up to, but not commenced at, the compilation date are underlined in the endnotes. For more information on any uncommenced amendments, see the series page on the Legislation Register for the compiled law.</p>
      <p>
        <b>Application, saving and transitional provisions for provisions and amendments</b>
      </p>
      <p>If the operation of a provision or amendment of the compiled law is affected by an application, saving or transitional provision that is not included in this compilation, details are included in the endnotes.</p>
      <p>
        <b>Editorial changes</b>
      </p>
      <p>For more information about any editorial changes made in this compilation, see the endnotes.</p>
      <p>
        <b>Modifications</b>
      </p>
      <p>If the compiled law is modified by another law, the compiled law operates as modified but the modification does not amend the text of the law. Accordingly, this compilation does not show the text of the compiled law as modified. For more information on any modifications, see the series page on the Legislation Register for the compiled law.</p>
      <p>
        <b>Self</b>
        <b>-</b>
        <b>repealing provisions</b>
      </p>
      <p>If a provision of the compiled law has been repealed in accordance with a provision of the law, details are included in the endnotes.</p>
      <p>Contents</p>
      <p>1	Short title	1</p>
      <p>2	Commencement	1</p>
      <p>3	Object of this Act	2</p>
      <p>4	Application to external Territories	2</p>
      <p>5	General administration of this Act	2</p>
      <p>6	Definitions	2</p>
      <p>7	Coronavirus economic response payments	3</p>
      <p>8	Method of paying Coronavirus economic response payments	5</p>
      <p>9	Overpayments etc.	5</p>
      <p>10	General interest charge on overpayment debts	6</p>
      <p>11	Joint and several liability for overpayment debts	7</p>
      <p>12	When <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> is taken to have made a decision or given a notice	8</p>
      <p>13	Review of <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role>’s decision	8</p>
      <p>14	No entitlement to payment unless record keeping requirements are met	9</p>
      <p>15	Pre-payment record keeping requirements	10</p>
      <p>16	Post-payment record keeping requirements	11</p>
      <p>17	Commissioner may require records to be produced	13</p>
      <p>18	Records that are lost or destroyed	13</p>
      <p>19	Contrived schemes	13</p>
      <p>20	Rules	15</p>
      <p>21	Constitutional basis for this Act	17</p>
      <p>Endnotes	18</p>
      <p>Endnote 1—About the endnotes	18</p>
      <p>Endnote 2—Abbreviation key	20</p>
      <p>Endnote 3—Legislation history	21</p>
      <p>Endnote 4—Amendment history	22</p>
      <p>An Act to provide an economic response, and deal with other matters, relating to the Coronavirus, and for related purposes</p>
    </preface>
    <body>
      <section eId="sec-1">
        <num>1</num>
        <heading>Short title</heading>
        <content>
          <p>		This Act is the <i>Coronavirus Economic Response Package (</i><i>Payments and Benefits</i><i>)</i><i> Act 2020</i>.</p>
        </content>
      </section>
      <section eId="sec-2">
        <num>2</num>
        <heading>Commencement</heading>
        <subsection eId="sec-2__subsec-1">
          <num>1</num>
          <content>
            <p>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.</p>
          </content>
          <table>
            <tr>
              <th>Commencement information</th>
              <th>Commencement information</th>
              <th>Commencement information</th>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>Column 1</td>
              <td>Column 2</td>
              <td>Column 3</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>Provisions</td>
              <td>Commencement</td>
              <td>Date/Details</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>1.  Sections 1 and 2 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table</td>
              <td>The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.</td>
              <td>9 April 2020</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>2.  Sections 3 to 20</td>
              <td>The provisions do not commence at all unless Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus (Measures No. 2) Act 2020 has commenced, in which case they commence immediately after the commencement of that Part.</td>
              <td>9 April 2020</td>
            </tr>
          </table>
          <authorialNote placement="end" eId="note-1" marker="1">
            <content>
              <p>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.</p>
            </content>
          </authorialNote>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-2__subsec-2">
          <num>2</num>
          <content>
            <p>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.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
      </section>
      <section eId="sec-3">
        <num>3</num>
        <heading>Object of this Act</heading>
        <content>
          <p>The object of this Act is to provide financial support directly or indirectly to entities that are directly or indirectly affected by the Coronavirus known as COVID-19.</p>
        </content>
      </section>
      <section eId="sec-4">
        <num>4</num>
        <heading>Application to external Territories</heading>
        <content>
          <p>		This Act extends to every external Territory referred to in the definition of <b><i>Australia</i></b> (within the meaning of section 960-505 of the <i>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</i>).</p>
        </content>
      </section>
      <section eId="sec-5">
        <num>5</num>
        <heading>General administration of this Act</heading>
        <content>
          <p><role refersTo="#commissioner">The Commissioner</role> has the general administration of this Act.</p>
        </content>
        <authorialNote placement="end" eId="note-2" marker="2">
          <content>
            <p>Note:	An effect of this provision is that people who acquire information under this Act are subject to the confidentiality obligations and exceptions in <i>Taxation Administration Act 1953</i>.<ref href="#dvs-355">Division 355</ref> in Schedule 1 to the </p>
          </content>
        </authorialNote>
      </section>
      <section eId="sec-6">
        <num>6</num>
        <heading>Definitions</heading>
        <content>
          <p>In this Act:</p>
          <p><term refersTo="#term-approved-form">approved form</term> has the meaning given by <def><ref href="#sec-388">section 388</ref>-50 in Schedule 1 to <ref href="">the Taxation Administration Act 1953</ref>.</def></p>
          <p><term refersTo="#term-australia">Australia</term> has the same meaning as <def>in <ref href="#sec-960">section 960</ref>-505 of <ref href="">the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</ref>.</def></p>
          <p><term refersTo="#term-commissioner">Commissioner</term> means <def>the Commissioner of Taxation.</def></p>
          <p><b><i>Coronavirus economic response payment</i></b> is the collective name for all of the kinds of payments provided for by the rules.</p>
          <p><term refersTo="#term-entity">entity</term> has the meaning given by <def><ref href="">the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</ref>.</def></p>
          <p><term refersTo="#term-general-interest-charge">general interest charge</term> means <def>the charge worked out under <ref href="#part-II">Part II</ref>A of <ref href="">the Taxation Administration Act 1953</ref>.</def></p>
          <p><term refersTo="#term-income-tax-return">income tax return</term> has the meaning given by <def><ref href="">the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</ref>.</def></p>
          <p><term refersTo="#term-income-year">income year</term> has the meaning given by <def><ref href="">the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</ref>.</def></p>
          <p><term refersTo="#term-prescribed-period">prescribed period</term> means <def>the period between 1 March 2020 and 28 March 2021.</def></p>
          <p><term refersTo="#term-relevant-period">relevant period</term> means <def>the period between 7 October 2020 and 6 October 2022.</def></p>
          <p><b><i>this Act</i></b> includes the rules.</p>
        </content>
        <authorialNote placement="end" eId="note-3" marker="3">
          <content>
            <p>Note:	Particular kinds of payments provided for by the rules may also have a particular name for that kind of payment.</p>
          </content>
        </authorialNote>
      </section>
      <section eId="sec-7">
        <num>7</num>
        <heading>Coronavirus economic response payments</heading>
        <subsection eId="sec-7__subsec-1">
          <num>1</num>
          <content>
            <p>The rules may make provision for and in relation to:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-7__subsec-1__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>one or more kinds of payments by the Commonwealth to an entity in respect of a time that occurs during the prescribed period; and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-7__subsec-1__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>the establishment of a scheme providing for matters relating to one or more of those payments, and matters relating to such a scheme.</p>
            </content>
            <content>
              <p>Paragraphs (a) and (b) do not limit each other.</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-7__subsec-1A">
          <num>1A</num>
          <content>
            <p>The rules may also make provision for and in relation to:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-7__subsec-1A__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>	(a)	one or more kinds of payments by the Commonwealth to an entity in respect of a time that occurs during the relevant period, being payments that are primarily<i> </i>for the purpose of:</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-7__subsec-1A__para-i">
            <num>i</num>
            <content>
              <p>improving the prospects of individuals getting employment in Australia; or</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-7__subsec-1A__para-ii">
            <num>ii</num>
            <content>
              <p>increasing workforce participation in Australia; and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-7__subsec-1A__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>the establishment of a scheme providing for matters relating to one or more of those payments, and matters relating to such a scheme.</p>
            </content>
            <content>
              <p>Paragraphs (a) and (b) do not limit each other.</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-7__subsec-1B">
          <num>1B</num>
          <content>
            <p>The rules may also make provision for and in relation to:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-7__subsec-1B__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>one or more kinds of payments by the Commonwealth to an entity in respect of a time that occurs during the period beginning on <date date="2021-07-01">1 July 2021</date> and ending on <date date="2022-12-31">31 December 2022</date>, being payments that are for the purpose of providing financial support to entities that are adversely affected by restrictions imposed under a public health order of a State or Territory to prevent or control the transmission of the coronavirus known as COVID-19; and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-7__subsec-1B__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>the establishment of a scheme providing for matters relating to one or more of those payments, and matters relating to such a scheme.</p>
            </content>
            <content>
              <p>Paragraphs (a) and (b) do not limit each other.</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-7__subsec-2">
          <num>2</num>
          <content>
            <p>Without limiting subsections (1), (1A) and (1B), the rules may make provision for and in relation to the following matters:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-7__subsec-2__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>the eligibility criteria for a payment;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-7__subsec-2__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>if or how an application for a payment may or must be made;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-7__subsec-2__para-c">
            <num>c</num>
            <content>
              <p>whether a payment is to be paid in instalments or as a lump sum;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-7__subsec-2__para-d">
            <num>d</num>
            <content>
              <p>entitlement to a payment or an instalment of a payment;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-7__subsec-2__para-e">
            <num>e</num>
            <content>
              <p>the amount of a payment or an instalment of a payment;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-7__subsec-2__para-f">
            <num>f</num>
            <content>
              <p>when a payment or an instalment of a payment is payable;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-7__subsec-2__para-g">
            <num>g</num>
            <content>
              <p>conditions applying to a payment or an instalment of a payment;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-7__subsec-2__para-h">
            <num>h</num>
            <content>
              <p>providing information or notices;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-7__subsec-2__para-i">
            <num>i</num>
            <content>
              <p>rights, obligations or liabilities of:</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-7__subsec-2__para-i">
            <num>i</num>
            <content>
              <p>an entity that is paid a payment; or</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-7__subsec-2__para-ii">
            <num>ii</num>
            <content>
              <p>an entity that directly benefits from another entity being paid a payment; or</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-7__subsec-2__para-iii">
            <num>iii</num>
            <content>
              <p>if the entitlement of an entity to a payment relates to a relationship existing between the entity and another entity—the other entity.</p>
            </content>
            <content>
              <p>Paragraphs (a) to (i) do not limit each other.</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
      </section>
      <section eId="sec-8">
        <num>8</num>
        <heading>Method of paying Coronavirus economic response payments</heading>
        <subsection eId="sec-8__subsec-1">
          <num>1</num>
          <content>
            <p>If, under the rules, <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> is required to pay a Coronavirus economic response payment to an entity, <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> must pay the payment to the credit of:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-8__subsec-1__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>	(a)	if the entity has nominated a financial institution account as referred to in <i>Tax</i><i>ation</i><i> Administration Act </i><i>1953</i>—that account; or<ref href="#sec-8A">section 8A</ref>AZLH of the </p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-8__subsec-1__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>if paragraph (a) does not apply—the financial institution account nominated by the entity in the entity’s most recent income tax return lodged for an income year.</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-8__subsec-2">
          <num>2</num>
          <content>
            <p>However, <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> may direct that the payment be paid to the entity in a different way.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-8__subsec-3">
          <num>3</num>
          <content>
            <p>If the entity has not nominated a financial institution account as mentioned in subsection (1) and <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> has not directed that the payment be paid in a different way, <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> is not obliged to pay the payment to the entity until the entity does so.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-8__subsec-4">
          <num>4</num>
          <content>
            <p>If <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> pays a payment to the credit of a financial institution account nominated by an entity, <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> is taken to have paid the payment to the entity.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
      </section>
      <section eId="sec-9">
        <num>9</num>
        <heading>Overpayments etc.</heading>
        <subsection eId="sec-9__subsec-1">
          <num>1</num>
          <content>
            <p>This section applies if:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-9__subsec-1__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p><role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> pays an amount by way of a Coronavirus economic response payment to an entity; and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-9__subsec-1__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>either:</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-9__subsec-1__para-i">
            <num>i</num>
            <content>
              <p>the entity was not entitled to the payment; or</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-9__subsec-1__para-ii">
            <num>ii</num>
            <content>
              <p>the amount paid is more than the correct amount of the entity’s payment.</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-9__subsec-2">
          <num>2</num>
          <content>
            <p>The entity is liable to repay the following amount to the Commonwealth:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-9__subsec-2__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>if the entity was not entitled to the payment—the whole of the amount referred to in paragraph (1)(a);</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-9__subsec-2__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>if the amount paid is more than the correct amount of the entity’s payment—the amount by which the amount paid exceeds the correct amount.</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-9__subsec-3">
          <num>3</num>
          <content>
            <p>An amount that an entity is liable to repay under subsection (2) is due and payable on the day on which <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> pays the amount referred to in paragraph (1)(a).</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-9__subsec-4">
          <num>4</num>
          <content>
            <p><role refersTo="#commissioner">The Commissioner</role> may make a written determination that the entity is not liable to repay an amount under subsection (2), in which case the entity is not liable to repay the amount.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-9__subsec-5">
          <num>5</num>
          <content>
            <p>A determination under subsection (4) is not a legislative instrument.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
      </section>
      <section eId="sec-10">
        <num>10</num>
        <heading>General interest charge on overpayment debts</heading>
        <subsection eId="sec-10__subsec-1">
          <num>1</num>
          <content>
            <p>If:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-10__subsec-1__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>an entity is liable under subsection 9(2) to repay an amount; and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-10__subsec-1__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>the whole or a part of the amount remains unpaid after the time by which the amount is due to be paid;</p>
            </content>
            <content>
              <p>the entity is liable to pay general interest charge on the unpaid amount.</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-10__subsec-2">
          <num>2</num>
          <content>
            <p>An entity that is liable under this section to pay general interest charge on an unpaid amount is liable to pay the charge for each day in the period that:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-10__subsec-2__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>started at the beginning of the day on which the unpaid amount was due to be paid; and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-10__subsec-2__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>finishes at the end of the last day at the end of which any of the following remains unpaid:</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-10__subsec-2__para-i">
            <num>i</num>
            <content>
              <p>the unpaid amount;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-10__subsec-2__para-ii">
            <num>ii</num>
            <content>
              <p>general interest charge on any of the unpaid amount.</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
      </section>
      <section eId="sec-11">
        <num>11</num>
        <heading>Joint and several liability for overpayment debts</heading>
        <subsection eId="sec-11__subsec-1">
          <num>1</num>
          <content>
            <p>This section applies if <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> is satisfied that:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-11__subsec-1__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>an entity is liable under subsection 9(2) to repay an amount because of an overpayment of a Coronavirus economic response payment; and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-11__subsec-1__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>the overpayment occurred because the entity reasonably relied on a statement that was made by another entity in the approved form; and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-11__subsec-1__para-c">
            <num>c</num>
            <content>
              <p>the statement by the other entity was false or misleading in a material particular, whether because of things in it or omitted from it; and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-11__subsec-1__para-d">
            <num>d</num>
            <content>
              <p>the other entity did not take reasonable care in connection with making the statement; and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-11__subsec-1__para-e">
            <num>e</num>
            <content>
              <p>the other entity directly benefitted from the entity being paid the Coronavirus economic response payment; and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-11__subsec-1__para-f">
            <num>f</num>
            <content>
              <p>it is reasonable for the entity and the other entity to be jointly and severally liable to pay the amount and any general interest charge payable on the amount under <ref href="#sec-10">section 10</ref>.</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-11__subsec-2">
          <num>2</num>
          <content>
            <p>This section also applies if <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> is satisfied that:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-11__subsec-2__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>an entity is liable under subsection 9(2) to repay an amount because of an overpayment of a Coronavirus economic response payment; and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-11__subsec-2__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>the overpayment is due to fraud of another entity (whether or not the entity was also involved in that fraud); and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-11__subsec-2__para-c">
            <num>c</num>
            <content>
              <p>it is reasonable for the entity and the other entity to be jointly and severally liable to pay the amount and any general interest charge payable on the amount under <ref href="#sec-10">section 10</ref>.</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-11__subsec-3">
          <num>3</num>
          <content>
            <p>Despite sections 9 and 10, the entity and the other entity are jointly and severally liable to pay the amount and any general interest charge payable on the amount under <ref href="#sec-10">section 10</ref>.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
      </section>
      <section eId="sec-12">
        <num>12</num>
        <heading>When the Commissioner is taken to have made a decision or given a notice</heading>
        <subsection eId="sec-12__subsec-1">
          <num>1</num>
          <content>
            <p>The rules may provide for:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-12__subsec-1__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>circumstances in which a decision is taken to have been made by <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> under this Act; and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-12__subsec-1__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>when the decision is taken to have been made.</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-12__subsec-2">
          <num>2</num>
          <content>
            <p>The rules may provide for:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-12__subsec-2__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>circumstances in which a notice of a decision made by <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> under this Act is taken to have been given to an entity; and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-12__subsec-2__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>when the notice is taken to have been given to the entity.</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-12__subsec-3">
          <num>3</num>
          <content>
            <p>If:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-12__subsec-3__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>a decision relating to an entity is made by <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> under this Act; and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-12__subsec-3__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>the rules do not require <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> to give a notice of the decision to the entity; and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-12__subsec-3__para-c">
            <num>c</num>
            <content>
              <p>rules are not made for the purposes of subsection (2) in relation to the decision; and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-12__subsec-3__para-d">
            <num>d</num>
            <content>
              <p>	(d)	<i>Taxation Administration Act 1953</i> applies to the decision;<ref href="#part-IV">Part IV</ref>C of the </p>
            </content>
            <content>
              <p>then, for the purposes of that Part, <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> is taken to have given a notice of the decision to the entity on the day the decision was made.</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-12__subsec-4">
          <num>4</num>
          <content>
            <p>Subsection (3) applies even if <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> in fact gives the entity a notice of the decision on a different day.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
      </section>
      <section eId="sec-13">
        <num>13</num>
        <heading>Review of the Commissioner’s decision</heading>
        <subsection eId="sec-13__subsec-1">
          <num>1</num>
          <content>
            <p>	(1)	An entity who is dissatisfied with a decision covered by subsection (2) may object against the decision in the manner set out in <i>Taxation Administration Act 1953</i>.<ref href="#part-IV">Part IV</ref>C of the </p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-13__subsec-2">
          <num>2</num>
          <content>
            <p>This subsection covers the following decisions of <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> under this Act:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-13__subsec-2__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>a decision that the entity is not entitled to a Coronavirus economic response payment for a period;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-13__subsec-2__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>a decision that the entity is entitled to a Coronavirus economic response payment for a period of a particular amount;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-13__subsec-2__para-c">
            <num>c</num>
            <content>
              <p>a decision not to make a determination under subsection 9(4) (about liability of the entity for an overpayment);</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-13__subsec-2__para-d">
            <num>d</num>
            <content>
              <p>a decision under subsection 11(1) or (2) that the entity is jointly and severally liable for an amount;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-13__subsec-2__para-e">
            <num>e</num>
            <content>
              <p>a decision under subsection 11(1) or (2) that another entity is not jointly and severally liable for an amount;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-13__subsec-2__para-f">
            <num>f</num>
            <content>
              <p>a decision not to make a determination under subsection 14(3) (about exempting the entity from the record keeping requirements).</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
      </section>
      <section eId="sec-14">
        <num>14</num>
        <heading>No entitlement to payment unless record keeping requirements are met</heading>
        <content>
          <p>No entitlement if non- compliance with requirements</p>
        </content>
        <subsection eId="sec-14__subsec-1">
          <num>1</num>
          <content>
            <p>An entity is not entitled, and is taken never to have been entitled, to a Coronavirus economic response payment in respect of a period unless the entity has complied with:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-14__subsec-1__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>the pre-payment record keeping requirements set out in <ref href="#sec-15">section 15</ref> that apply to the payment for the period; and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-14__subsec-1__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>the post-payment record keeping requirements set out in <ref href="#sec-16">section 16</ref> that apply to the payment for the period.</p>
            </content>
            <content>
              <p>Exemption from requirements</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-14__subsec-2">
          <num>2</num>
          <content>
            <p>However, subsection (1) does not apply to an entity in relation to the payment in respect of the period if a determination under subsection (3) provides that the requirements in <ref href="#sec-15">section 15</ref> and 16 do not apply to the payment in respect of the period.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-14__subsec-3">
          <num>3</num>
          <content>
            <p><role refersTo="#commissioner">The Commissioner</role> may make a written determination that an entity is not required to comply with the record keeping requirements set out in sections 15 and 16 in relation to a specified Coronavirus economic response payment in respect of a period. The determination may take effect from a time before the determination is made.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-14__subsec-4">
          <num>4</num>
          <content>
            <p>A determination under subsection (3) is not a legislative instrument.</p>
          </content>
          <content>
            <p>Undertakings as to compliance</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-14__subsec-5">
          <num>5</num>
          <content>
            <p>If an entity gives <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> a statement in the approved form to the effect that the entity undertakes to comply with the record keeping requirements set out in sections 15 and 16, then <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> may assume that the entity will comply with those requirements for the purposes of making a decision under this Act about entitlement to, or the amount of, the payment.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-14__subsec-6">
          <num>6</num>
          <content>
            <p>However, if:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-14__subsec-6__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p><role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> makes a decision under this Act that the entity is entitled to the payment; and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-14__subsec-6__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>the entity does not comply with the requirements referred to in subsection (5);</p>
            </content>
            <content>
              <p>then:</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-14__subsec-6__para-c">
            <num>c</num>
            <content>
              <p><role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> may revoke the decision; and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-14__subsec-6__para-d">
            <num>d</num>
            <content>
              <p>if <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> revokes the decision under paragraph (c)—the entity is not entitled, and is taken never to have been entitled, to the payment.</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
      </section>
      <section eId="sec-15">
        <num>15</num>
        <heading>Pre-payment record keeping requirements</heading>
        <content>
          <p>Scope of this section</p>
        </content>
        <subsection eId="sec-15__subsec-1">
          <num>1</num>
          <content>
            <p>This section sets out the pre-payment record keeping requirements that apply to an entity in relation to a Coronavirus economic response payment in respect of a period.</p>
          </content>
          <content>
            <p>Records to be kept</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-15__subsec-2">
          <num>2</num>
          <content>
            <p>The entity must keep records that enable the entity to substantiate any information that the entity provided to <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> in relation to the payment before the entity was paid the payment.</p>
          </content>
          <authorialNote placement="end" eId="note-4" marker="4">
            <content>
              <p>Note:	Section 16 provides that the entity must continue to retain those records for 5 years after the entity is paid the payment.</p>
            </content>
          </authorialNote>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-15__subsec-3">
          <num>3</num>
          <content>
            <p>The records must be:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-15__subsec-3__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>in English; or</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-15__subsec-3__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>readily accessible, and easily convertible into English.</p>
            </content>
            <content>
              <p>When entity is taken to have met the record keeping requirements</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-15__subsec-4">
          <num>4</num>
          <content>
            <p>The entity is taken to have met the requirement set out in subsection (2) if the entity keeps records of a kind, and in a manner, specified in a written determination made by <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> under subsection (5).</p>
          </content>
          <authorialNote placement="end" eId="note-5" marker="5">
            <content>
              <p>Note:	Sections 8L, 8Q and 8T of the <i>Taxation Administration Act 1953</i> deal with keeping records incorrectly.</p>
            </content>
          </authorialNote>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-15__subsec-5">
          <num>5</num>
          <content>
            <p>For the purposes of subsection (4), <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> may, by legislative instrument, specify:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-15__subsec-5__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>the kinds of records that an entity must keep for the purposes of that subsection; and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-15__subsec-5__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>the manner in which those records must be kept.</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
      </section>
      <section eId="sec-16">
        <num>16</num>
        <heading>Post-payment record keeping requirements</heading>
        <content>
          <p>Scope of this section</p>
        </content>
        <subsection eId="sec-16__subsec-1">
          <num>1</num>
          <content>
            <p>This section sets out the post-payment record keeping requirements that apply to an entity in relation to a Coronavirus economic response payment in respect of a period.</p>
          </content>
          <content>
            <p>Records to be kept</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-16__subsec-2">
          <num>2</num>
          <content>
            <p>If the rules require the entity to keep records that substantiate any information that the entity provides to <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> in relation to the payment after the entity was paid the payment, then the entity must keep those records.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-16__subsec-3">
          <num>3</num>
          <content>
            <p>The records must be:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-16__subsec-3__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>in English; or</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-16__subsec-3__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>readily accessible, and easily convertible into English.</p>
            </content>
            <content>
              <p>When entity is taken to have met the record keeping requirements</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-16__subsec-4">
          <num>4</num>
          <content>
            <p>The entity is taken to have met the requirement set out in subsection (2) if the entity keeps records of a kind, and in a manner, specified in a written determination made by <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> under subsection (5).</p>
          </content>
          <authorialNote placement="end" eId="note-6" marker="6">
            <content>
              <p>Note:	Sections 8L, 8Q and 8T of the <i>Taxation Administration Act 1953</i> deal with keeping records incorrectly.</p>
            </content>
          </authorialNote>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-16__subsec-5">
          <num>5</num>
          <content>
            <p>For the purposes of subsection (4), <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> may, by legislative instrument, specify:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-16__subsec-5__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>the kinds of records that an entity must keep for the purposes of that subsection; and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-16__subsec-5__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>the manner in which those records must be kept.</p>
            </content>
            <content>
              <p>Period for retaining records</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-16__subsec-6">
          <num>6</num>
          <content>
            <p>The entity must retain the records for the period of 5 years after the payment was paid.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-16__subsec-7">
          <num>7</num>
          <content>
            <p>The entity must continue to retain, for the period of 5 years after the payment was made, the records that the pre-payment record keeping requirements set out in <ref href="#sec-15">section 15</ref> required the entity to retain.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-16__subsec-8">
          <num>8</num>
          <content>
            <p>Despite subsections (6) and (7), it is not necessary for the entity to continue to retain records if <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> notifies the entity that it does not need to retain them.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
      </section>
      <section eId="sec-17">
        <num>17</num>
        <heading>Commissioner may require records to be produced</heading>
        <subsection eId="sec-17__subsec-1">
          <num>1</num>
          <content>
            <p>If <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> gives the entity a written notice telling the entity to produce records that subsection 16(6) or (7) requires the entity to retain, then the entity must comply with the notice.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-17__subsec-2">
          <num>2</num>
          <content>
            <p>A notice under subsection (1) must give the entity 28 days or more to comply, starting on the day after the notice is given. <role refersTo="#commissioner">The Commissioner</role> may allow the entity more time to comply with the notice.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-17__subsec-3">
          <num>3</num>
          <content>
            <p>	(3)	Despite <i>Taxation Administration Act 1953</i>, the entity does not commit an offence merely by not complying with a notice under subsection (1) of this section.<ref href="#sec-8C">section 8C</ref> of the </p>
          </content>
          <authorialNote placement="end" eId="note-7" marker="7">
            <content>
              <p>Note:	Sections 8L, 8Q and 8T of the <i>Taxation Administration Act 1953</i> deal with keeping records incorrectly.</p>
            </content>
          </authorialNote>
        </subsection>
      </section>
      <section eId="sec-18">
        <num>18</num>
        <heading>Records that are lost or destroyed</heading>
        <subsection eId="sec-18__subsec-1">
          <num>1</num>
          <content>
            <p>This section applies to an entity if:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-18__subsec-1__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p><ref href="#sec-15">section 15</ref> or 16 requires the entity to retain a particular record; and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-18__subsec-1__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>the record is lost or destroyed.</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-18__subsec-2">
          <num>2</num>
          <content>
            <p>If the entity has a complete copy of the record that is lost or destroyed, it is treated as the original from the time of the loss or destruction.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-18__subsec-3">
          <num>3</num>
          <content>
            <p>If the entity does not have such a copy, but <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> is satisfied that the entity took reasonable precautions to prevent the loss or destruction, the entity’s entitlement to a Coronavirus economic response payment is not affected by the entity’s failure to retain or produce the original record.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-18__subsec-4">
          <num>4</num>
          <content>
            <p>This section has effect despite anything in <ref href="#sec-14">section 14</ref>, 15, 16 or 17.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
      </section>
      <section eId="sec-19">
        <num>19</num>
        <heading>Contrived schemes</heading>
        <subsection eId="sec-19__subsec-1">
          <num>1</num>
          <content>
            <p>If <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> is satisfied that:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-19__subsec-1__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>	(a)	one or more entities (a <b><i>participant</i></b>) entered into or carried out a scheme (within the meaning of the <i>A</i><i> </i><i>New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999</i>); and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-19__subsec-1__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>it would be concluded (having regard to the matters in subsection (3)) that any of the participants entered into or carried out the scheme, or any part of the scheme, for the sole or dominant purpose of achieving either of the following:</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-19__subsec-1__para-i">
            <num>i</num>
            <content>
              <p>	(i)	making an entity (the <b><i>recipient</i></b>) entitled to a Coronavirus economic response payment in respect of a period;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-19__subsec-1__para-ii">
            <num>ii</num>
            <content>
              <p>	(ii)	increasing the amount of the Coronavirus economic response payment to which an entity (also the <b><i>recipient</i></b>) is entitled for the period;</p>
            </content>
            <content>
              <p>(whether or not any of the participants is the recipient and whether or not any of them carried out the scheme or any part of the scheme); and</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-19__subsec-1__para-c">
            <num>c</num>
            <content>
              <p>the scheme or part of the scheme has achieved, or apart from this section would achieve, that purpose;</p>
            </content>
            <content>
              <p>then <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> may determine that this Act has, and is taken always to have had, effect as if:</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-19__subsec-1__para-d">
            <num>d</num>
            <content>
              <p>the recipient never became entitled to the payment; or</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-19__subsec-1__para-e">
            <num>e</num>
            <content>
              <p>the amount of the payment was always the amount specified by <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> in the determination.</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-19__subsec-2">
          <num>2</num>
          <content>
            <p>A determination under subsection (1) has effect accordingly.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-19__subsec-3">
          <num>3</num>
          <content>
            <p>For the purposes of subsection (1), the matters are as follows:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-19__subsec-3__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>the manner in which the scheme was entered into or carried out;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-19__subsec-3__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>the form and substance of the scheme;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-19__subsec-3__para-c">
            <num>c</num>
            <content>
              <p>the time at which the scheme was entered into and the length of the period during which the scheme was carried out;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-19__subsec-3__para-d">
            <num>d</num>
            <content>
              <p>the result in relation to the operation of this Act that, but for this section, would be achieved by the scheme;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-19__subsec-3__para-e">
            <num>e</num>
            <content>
              <p>any change in the financial position of the recipient that has resulted, will result, or may reasonably be expected to result, from the scheme;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-19__subsec-3__para-f">
            <num>f</num>
            <content>
              <p>any change in the financial position of any entity that has, or has had, any connection (whether of a business, family or other nature) with the recipient, being a change that has resulted, will result or may reasonably be expected to result, from the scheme;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-19__subsec-3__para-g">
            <num>g</num>
            <content>
              <p>any other consequence for the recipient, or for any person referred to in paragraph (f), of the scheme having been entered into or carried out;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-19__subsec-3__para-h">
            <num>h</num>
            <content>
              <p>the nature of any connection (whether of a business, family or other nature) between the recipient and any person referred to in paragraph (f).</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-19__subsec-4">
          <num>4</num>
          <content>
            <p>This section applies whether or not the scheme has been or is entered into or carried out in Australia or outside Australia, or partly in Australia and partly outside Australia.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-19__subsec-5">
          <num>5</num>
          <content>
            <p>A determination under subsection (1) is not a legislative instrument.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
      </section>
      <section eId="sec-20">
        <num>20</num>
        <heading>Rules</heading>
        <content>
          <p>Power to make rules</p>
        </content>
        <subsection eId="sec-20__subsec-1">
          <num>1</num>
          <content>
            <p>The Treasurer may, by legislative instrument, make rules prescribing matters:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-20__subsec-1__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed by the rules; or</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-20__subsec-1__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-20__subsec-2">
          <num>2</num>
          <content>
            <p>To avoid doubt, the rules may not do the following:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-20__subsec-2__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>create an offence or civil penalty;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-20__subsec-2__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>provide powers of:</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-20__subsec-2__para-i">
            <num>i</num>
            <content>
              <p>arrest or detention; or</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-20__subsec-2__para-ii">
            <num>ii</num>
            <content>
              <p>entry, search or seizure;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-20__subsec-2__para-c">
            <num>c</num>
            <content>
              <p>impose a tax;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-20__subsec-2__para-d">
            <num>d</num>
            <content>
              <p>set an amount to be appropriated from the Consolidated Revenue Fund under an appropriation in this Act;</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-20__subsec-2__para-e">
            <num>e</num>
            <content>
              <p>directly amend the text of this Act.</p>
            </content>
            <content>
              <p>Rules may make different provision</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-20__subsec-3">
          <num>3</num>
          <content>
            <p>	(3)	Without limiting subsection 33(3A) of the <i>Acts Interpretation Act 1901</i>, the rules may make different provision in relation to:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-20__subsec-3__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>different kinds of entities; or</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-20__subsec-3__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>different kinds of payments.</p>
            </content>
            <content>
              <p>Rules may subdelegate to <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role></p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-20__subsec-4">
          <num>4</num>
          <content>
            <p>The rules may make provision in relation to a matter by conferring a power on <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> to make:</p>
          </content>
          <paragraph eId="sec-20__subsec-4__para-a">
            <num>a</num>
            <content>
              <p>an instrument of a legislative or administrative character; or</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
          <paragraph eId="sec-20__subsec-4__para-b">
            <num>b</num>
            <content>
              <p>a decision of an administrative character.</p>
            </content>
            <content>
              <p>Rules may incorporate matters in other instruments</p>
            </content>
          </paragraph>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-20__subsec-5">
          <num>5</num>
          <content>
            <p>	(5)	Despite subsection 14(2) of the <i>Legislation Act 2003</i>, the rules may make provision in relation to a matter by applying, adopting or incorporating, with or without modification, any matter contained in an instrument or other writing as in force or existing from time to time.</p>
          </content>
          <content>
            <p>Rules may prescribe matters for the purposes of other laws</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-20__subsec-6">
          <num>6</num>
          <content>
            <p>The rules may prescribe matters that are required or permitted by another law of the Commonwealth to be prescribed by the rules.</p>
          </content>
          <content>
            <p>Rules not limited because certain topics dealt with in this Act</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-20__subsec-7">
          <num>7</num>
          <content>
            <p><rref from="#sec-8" upTo="#sec-11">Sections 8 to 11</rref> and 13 to 19 do not limit the rules that may be made.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
      </section>
      <section eId="sec-21">
        <num>21</num>
        <heading>Constitutional basis for this Act</heading>
        <content>
          <p>Principal constitutional basis</p>
        </content>
        <subsection eId="sec-21__subsec-1">
          <num>1</num>
          <content>
            <p>This Act relies on the legislative power that the Parliament has under the Constitution with respect to matters that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation.</p>
          </content>
          <content>
            <p>Additional constitutional basis</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-21__subsec-2">
          <num>2</num>
          <content>
            <p>This Act also relies on all other legislative powers that the Parliament has under the Constitution relevant to a kind of Coronavirus economic response payment.</p>
          </content>
          <content>
            <p>Endnotes</p>
            <p>Endnote 1—About the endnotes</p>
            <p>The endnotes provide information about this compilation and the compiled law.</p>
            <p>The following endnotes are included in every compilation:</p>
            <p>Endnote 1—About the endnotes</p>
            <p>Endnote 2—Abbreviation key</p>
            <p>Endnote 3—Legislation history</p>
            <p>Endnote 4—Amendment history</p>
            <p>
              <b>Abbreviation key—Endnote 2</b>
            </p>
            <p>The abbreviation key sets out abbreviations that may be used in the endnotes.</p>
            <p>
              <b>Legislation history and amendment history—Endnotes 3 and 4</b>
            </p>
            <p>Amending laws are annotated in the legislation history and amendment history.</p>
            <p>The legislation history in endnote 3 provides information about each law that has amended (or will amend) the compiled law. The information includes commencement details for amending laws and details of any application, saving or transitional provisions that are not included in this compilation.</p>
            <p>The amendment history in endnote 4 provides information about amendments at the provision (generally section or equivalent) level. It also includes information about any provision of the compiled law that has been repealed in accordance with a provision of the law.</p>
            <p>
              <b>Editorial changes</b>
            </p>
            <p>The <i>Legislation Act 2003</i> authorises First Parliamentary Counsel to make editorial and presentational changes to a compiled law in preparing a compilation of the law for registration. The changes must not change the effect of the law. Editorial changes take effect from the compilation registration date.</p>
            <p>If the compilation includes editorial changes, the endnotes include a brief outline of the changes in general terms. Full details of any changes can be obtained from the Office of Parliamentary Counsel.</p>
            <p>
              <b>Misdescribed amendments</b>
            </p>
            <p>A misdescribed amendment is an amendment that does not accurately describe the amendment to be made. If, despite the misdescription, the amendment can be given effect as intended, the amendment is incorporated into the compiled law and the abbreviation “(md)” added to the details of the amendment included in the amendment history.</p>
            <p>If a misdescribed amendment cannot be given effect as intended, the abbreviation “(md not incorp)” is added to the details of the amendment included in the amendment history.</p>
            <p>Endnote 2—Abbreviation key</p>
          </content>
          <table>
            <tr>
              <th>ad = added or inserted</th>
              <th>o = order(s)</th>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>am = amended</td>
              <td>Ord = Ordinance</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>amdt = amendment</td>
              <td>orig = original</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>c = clause(s)</td>
              <td>par = paragraph(s)/subparagraph(s)</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>C[x] = Compilation No. x</td>
              <td>/sub-subparagraph(s)</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>Ch = Chapter(s)</td>
              <td>pres = present</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>def = definition(s)</td>
              <td>prev = previous</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>Dict = Dictionary</td>
              <td>(prev…) = previously</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>disallowed = disallowed by Parliament</td>
              <td>Pt = Part(s)</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>Div = Division(s)</td>
              <td>r = regulation(s)/rule(s)</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>ed = editorial change</td>
              <td>reloc = relocated</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>exp = expires/expired or ceases/ceased to have</td>
              <td>renum = renumbered</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>effect</td>
              <td>rep = repealed</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>F = Federal Register of Legislation</td>
              <td>rs = repealed and substituted</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>gaz = gazette</td>
              <td>s = section(s)/subsection(s)</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>LA = Legislation Act 2003</td>
              <td>Sch = Schedule(s)</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>LIA = Legislative Instruments Act 2003</td>
              <td>Sdiv = Subdivision(s)</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>(md) = misdescribed amendment can be given</td>
              <td>SLI = Select Legislative Instrument</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>effect</td>
              <td>SR = Statutory Rules</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>(md not incorp) = misdescribed amendment</td>
              <td>Sub-Ch = Sub-Chapter(s)</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>cannot be given effect</td>
              <td>SubPt = Subpart(s)</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>mod = modified/modification</td>
              <td>underlining = whole or part not</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>No. = Number(s)</td>
              <td>commenced or to be commenced</td>
            </tr>
          </table>
          <content>
            <p>Endnote 3—Legislation history</p>
          </content>
          <table>
            <tr>
              <th>Act</th>
              <th>Number and year</th>
              <th>Assent</th>
              <th>Commencement</th>
              <th>Application, saving and transitional provisions</th>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020</td>
              <td>37, 2020</td>
              <td>9 Apr 2020</td>
              <td>9 Apr 2020 (s 2(1) items 1, 2)</td>
              <td></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Jobkeeper Payments) Amendment Act 2020</td>
              <td>81, 2020</td>
              <td>3 Sept 2020</td>
              <td>Sch 1 (item 1): 3 Sept 2020 (s 2(1) item 2)</td>
              <td>—</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>Economic Recovery Package (JobMaker Hiring Credit) Amendment Act 2020</td>
              <td>96, 2020</td>
              <td>13 Nov 2020</td>
              <td>14 Nov 2020 (s 2(1) item 1)</td>
              <td>—</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>Treasury Laws Amendment (COVID‑19 Economic Response No. 2) Act 2021</td>
              <td>79, 2021</td>
              <td>10 Aug 2021</td>
              <td>Sch 1 (items 1, 2): 11 Aug 2021 (s 2(1) item 1)</td>
              <td>—</td>
            </tr>
          </table>
          <content>
            <p>Endnote 4—Amendment history</p>
          </content>
          <table>
            <tr>
              <th>Provision affected</th>
              <th>How affected</th>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>s 3</td>
              <td>am No 96, 2020</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>s 6</td>
              <td>am No 81, 2020; No 96, 2020</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>s 7</td>
              <td>am No 96, 2020</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td></td>
              <td>ed C2</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td></td>
              <td>am No 79, 2021</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>s 21</td>
              <td>ad No 96, 2020</td>
            </tr>
          </table>
        </subsection>
      </section>
    </body>
  </act>
</akomaNtoso>
