COVID-19 Disaster Payment (Funding Arrangements) Act 2021

No. 70, 2021

An Act to make provision in relation to COVID-19 disaster payments, and for related purposes

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary 2

1 Short title 2

2 Commencement 2

3 Definitions 2

Part 2—Appropriation 3

4 Appropriation 3

Part 3—Annual report 4

5 Inclusion of information in National Recovery and Resilience Agency’s annual report 4

An Act to make provision in relation to COVID-19 disaster payments, and for related purposes

[Assented to 30 June 2021]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

 1 Preliminary
1 Short title

This Act is the COVID-19 Disaster Payment (Funding Arrangements) Act 2021.
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. The whole of this Act The later of: (a) 1 July 2021; and (b) the day after this Act receives the Royal Assent. 1 July 2021

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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 Definitions

In this Act:

COVID-19 disaster payment means a payment or grant of financial assistance covered by item 492 of the table in Part 4 of Schedule 1AB to the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997.
2 Appropriation
4 Appropriation 1

The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated for the purposes of making COVID-19 disaster payments.

 2

This section applies to COVID-19 disaster payments made on or after the commencement of this section and before the end of 30 June 2022.
3 Annual report
5 Inclusion of information in National Recovery and Resilience Agency’s annual report

The Coordinator-General of the National Recovery and Resilience Agency, when preparing that Agency’s annual report under Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 for the reporting period commencing on 1 July 2021, must include information in that report that relates to COVID-19 disaster payments made in that period.section 46 of the

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 16 June 2021

Senate on 23 June 2021]

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