Emergency Response Fund Amendment (Disaster Ready Fund) Act 2022

1 Short title

This Act is the Emergency Response Fund Amendment (Disaster Ready Fund) Act 2022.

2 Commencement

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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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

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Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

4 Consequential amendments of the Emergency Response Fund Investment Mandate Direction 2020

During the period:

beginning at the commencement of this section; and

ending immediately before the commencement of Schedule 1 to this Act;

the responsible Ministers may, by legislative instrument, make the following amendments of the Emergency Response Fund Investment Mandate Direction 2020:

(c) in Emergency Response Fund” and substituting “Disaster Ready Fund”;section 1 of that Direction, omitting “

(d) in Emergency Response Fund Act 2019” and substituting “in force under the Disaster Ready Fund Act 2019”;section 3 of that Direction, omitting “made under the

(e) in the definition of Act in section 4 of that Direction, omitting “Emergency Response Fund Act 2019” and substituting “Disaster Ready Fund Act 2019”;

(f) in the definition of Fund in section 4 of that Direction, omitting “Emergency Response Fund” and substituting “Disaster Ready Fund”.

An instrument made under subsection (1) of this section must not take effect before the commencement of Schedule 1 to this Act.

(3) Section 42 of the Emergency Response Fund Act 2019 (which deals with consultation) applies to the making of an instrument under subsection (1) of this section in a corresponding way to the way in which it applies to the giving of a direction under subsection 39(1) of that Act.

(4) This section does not, by implication, limit the application of subsection 33(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 to any other power to make an instrument.

(5) For the purposes of this section, responsible Ministers has the same meaning as in the Emergency Response Fund Act 2019.