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      <p>Treasury Laws Amendment (Responsible Buy Now Pay Later and Other Measures) Act 2024</p>
      <p>No. 138, 2024</p>
      <p>An Act to amend the law relating to taxation, consumer credit, the Medicare levy and federal financial relations, and for related purposes</p>
      <p>Contents</p>
      <p>1	Short title	2</p>
      <p>2	Commencement	2</p>
      <p>3	Schedules	3</p>
      <p>Schedule 1—Build to rent developments	4</p>
      <p>Income Tax Assessment Act 1936	4</p>
      <p>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997	4</p>
      <p>Taxation Administration Act 1953	21</p>
      <p>Schedule 2—Buy now, pay later	25</p>
      <p><ref href="#part-1">Part 1</ref>—Extending the application of <ref href="">the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009</ref>	25</p>
      <p>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009	25</p>
      <p><ref href="#part-2">Part 2</ref>—Responsible lending conduct	33</p>
      <p>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009	33</p>
      <p><ref href="#part-3">Part 3</ref>—Credit representatives	46</p>
      <p>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009	46</p>
      <p><ref href="#part-4">Part 4</ref>—Precontractual disclosure	49</p>
      <p>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009	49</p>
      <p><ref href="#part-5">Part 5</ref>—Contract documents and statements of account	50</p>
      <p>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009	50</p>
      <p><ref href="#part-6">Part 6</ref>—Increasing credit limits	52</p>
      <p>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009	52</p>
      <p><ref href="#part-7">Part 7</ref>—Interest rates and comparison rates	53</p>
      <p>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009	53</p>
      <p><ref href="#part-8">Part 8</ref>—Default notices	55</p>
      <p>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009	55</p>
      <p><ref href="#part-9">Part 9</ref>—Avoidance schemes	57</p>
      <p>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009	57</p>
      <p><ref href="#part-10">Part 10</ref>—Giving information or documents	58</p>
      <p>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009	58</p>
      <p>Schedule 3—Medicare levy exemption for lump sum payments	62</p>
      <p>Medicare Levy Act 1986	62</p>
      <p>Schedule 4—Multinational tax transparency—country by country reporting	64</p>
      <p>Taxation Administration Act 1953	64</p>
      <p>Schedule 5—Deductible gift recipients	72</p>
      <p><ref href="#part-1">Part 1</ref>—Main amendments	72</p>
      <p>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997	72</p>
      <p><ref href="#part-2">Part 2</ref>—Contingent amendments	75</p>
      <p>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997	75</p>
      <p>Schedule 6—National skills and workforce development payments	77</p>
      <p><ref href="#part-1">Part 1</ref>—Amendments	77</p>
      <p>Federal Financial Relations Act 2009	77</p>
      <p><ref href="#part-2">Part 2</ref>—Application and saving provisions	80</p>
      <p>Treasury Laws Amendment (Responsible Buy Now Pay Later and Other Measures) Act 2024</p>
      <p>No. 138, 2024</p>
      <p>An Act to amend the law relating to taxation, consumer credit, the Medicare levy and federal financial relations, and for related purposes</p>
      <p>[<i>Assented to 10 December 2024</i>]</p>
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        <p>The Parliament of Australia enacts:</p>
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      <section eId="sec-1">
        <num>1</num>
        <heading>Short title</heading>
        <content>
          <p>		This Act is the <i>Treasury Laws Amendment (</i><i>Responsible Buy Now Pay Later </i><i>and Other Measures)</i><i> Act </i><i>2024</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 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table</td>
              <td>The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.</td>
              <td>10 December 2024</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>2.  Schedule 1</td>
              <td>At the same time as the Capital Works (Build to Rent Misuse Tax) Act 2024 commences.
However, the provisions do not commence at all if that Act does not commence.</td>
              <td>1 January 2025</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>3.  Schedule 2, Part 1</td>
              <td>The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.</td>
              <td>11 December 2024</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>4.  Schedule 2, Parts 2 to 10</td>
              <td>A single day to be fixed by Proclamation.
However, if the provisions do not commence within the period of 6 months beginning on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent, they commence on the day after the end of that period.</td>
              <td></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>5.  Schedules 3 and 4</td>
              <td>The first 1 January, 1 April, 1 July or 1 October to occur after the day this Act receives the Royal Assent.</td>
              <td>1 January 2025</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>6.  Schedule 5, Part 1</td>
              <td>The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.</td>
              <td>11 December 2024</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>7.  Schedule 5, item 13</td>
              <td>The later of:
(a) the start of the day after this Act receives the Royal Assent; and
(b) immediately after the commencement of item 1 of Schedule 3 to the Treasury Laws Amendment (Support for Small Business and Charities and Other Measures) Act 2024.
However, the provision does not commence at all if the event mentioned in paragraph (b) does not occur on or before the day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.</td>
              <td>11 December 2024
(paragraph (a) applies)</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>8.  Schedule 5, item 14</td>
              <td>The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.
However, the provision does not commence at all if item 1 of Schedule 3 to the Treasury Laws Amendment (Support for Small Business and Charities and Other Measures) Act 2024 commences on or before that day.</td>
              <td>Never commenced</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>9.  Schedule 6</td>
              <td>The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.</td>
              <td>11 December 2024</td>
            </tr>
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            <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>
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        </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>Schedules</heading>
        <content>
          <p>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.</p>
        </content>
      </section>
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          <heading>Build to rent developments</heading>
          <content>
            <p>Income Tax Assessment Act 1936</p>
          </content>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-1">
            <num>1</num>
            <heading>Subsection 170(10AA) (after table item 15)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</p>
            </content>
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          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-2">
            <num>2</num>
            <heading>Section 12-5 (table item headed “buildings”)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Before:</p>
              <p>insert:</p>
            </content>
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          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-3">
            <num>3</num>
            <heading>After section 26-99A</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
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            <num>26-99B</num>
            <heading>Build to rent development misuse tax cannot be deducted</heading>
            <content>
              <p>You cannot deduct under this Act an amount of *build to rent development misuse tax that you pay.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-4">
            <num>4</num>
            <heading>Group heading before section 43-140</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Repeal the heading, substitute:</p>
              <p>Using your area</p>
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          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-5">
            <num>5</num>
            <heading>Section 43-145</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Before “You use a”, insert “(1)”.</p>
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          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-6">
            <num>6</num>
            <heading>Section 43-145 (table item dealing with Time period 1: After 30/6/97)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>After:</p>
              <p>insert:</p>
            </content>
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          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-7">
            <num>7</num>
            <heading>At the end of section 43-145</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Add:</p>
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              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(2)	You use a part of *your area in the <b><i>4% build to rent manner</i></b> if:</p>
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            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-7__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>you use the part of your area for the *purpose of producing assessable income; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-7__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(b)	that part is, or is part of, an *active build to rent development area (the <b><i>eligible development</i></b>); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-7__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>if the *build to rent compliance period for each of the *dwellings in the eligible development has ended:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-7__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>no other entity is using the eligible development, or any part of the eligible development, for the purpose of producing assessable income; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-7__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>at each earlier time (if any) at which you or another entity used the eligible development, or any part of the eligible development, for the purpose of producing assessable income and at which the eligible development was an *active build to rent development, no other entity was using the eligible development, or any part of the eligible development, for the purpose of producing assessable income.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-7__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of paragraph (2)(c), disregard use of the eligible development, or any part of the eligible development, for the *purpose of producing assessable income by providing management services.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-8">
            <num>8</num>
            <heading>Before section 43-150</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p>Industrial activities</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-9">
            <num>9</num>
            <heading>At the end of Subdivision 43-D</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Add:</p>
              <p>Build to rent developments</p>
            </content>
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            <num>43-151</num>
            <heading>Meaning of active build to rent development area</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-151__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(1)	An <b><i>active build to rent development area</i></b> is a part of a building comprising any of the following:</p>
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            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-151__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the *dwellings of an *active build to rent development;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-151__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>any *common areas for those dwellings.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-151__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(2)	An <b><i>active build to rent development</i></b> is a *build to rent development that has:</p>
              </content>
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            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-151__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>*commenced to be an active build to rent development (see subsections 43-152(1) and (2)); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-151__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>not *ceased to be an active build to rent development (see subsection 43-152(4)).</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-151__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(3)	A <b><i>common area</i></b> for *dwellings of a *build to rent development is an area, facility or amenity:</p>
              </content>
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            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-151__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>intended for use for the purposes of those dwellings; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-151__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>intended for use for the purposes of those dwellings and any other dwellings in the same building.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
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            <num>43-152</num>
            <heading>Build to rent developments</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Commencement</p>
              <p>those dwellings are a <b><i>build to rent development</i></b>, of the building, that <b><i>commences</i></b> to be an *active build to rent development on that day.</p>
              <p>those dwellings are a <b><i>build to rent development</i></b>, of the building, that <b><i>commences</i></b> to be an active build to rent development on that day unless an active build to rent development *expands under subsection (3) on that day to include the dwellings.</p>
              <p>Expansion</p>
              <p>the existing development <b><i>expands</i></b> to comprise:</p>
              <p>Cessation</p>
              <p>Build to rent compliance period</p>
              <p>the development expands to include the dwelling.</p>
              <p>the nominated day; or</p>
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              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>On and after the first day on which a building has 50 or more *dwellings:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>that satisfy subsection 43-153(1); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>that the owner of the dwellings chooses to form a *build to rent development in accordance with subsection (6) of this section;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>Also, on and after the first day (if any):</p>
              </content>
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            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>after the most recent instance of a *build to rent development of a building *commencing to be an *active build to rent development; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>on which the building has 50 or more *dwellings:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>that satisfy subsection 43-153(1); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>that were not part of a build to rent development just before that day; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__para-iii">
              <num>iii</num>
              <content>
                <p>that the owner of the dwellings chooses to form a build to rent development in accordance with subsection (6) of this section;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(3)	If a building has a *build to rent development (the <b><i>existing development</i></b>) that has *commenced to be an *active build to rent development, on the first day (if any) on which the building has *dwellings (the <b><i>new dwellings</i></b>):</p>
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            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>that taken together with the dwellings of the existing development for which the *build to rent compliance period has not ended, satisfy subsection 43-153(1); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>that are not already a part of a build to rent development; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>that the owner of the dwellings chooses to form part of the existing development in accordance with subsection (6) of this section;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__para-d">
              <num>d</num>
              <content>
                <p>the dwellings of the existing development; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__para-e">
              <num>e</num>
              <content>
                <p>the new dwellings.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__subclause-4">
              <num>4</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(4)	A *build to rent development <b><i>ceases</i></b> to be an *active build to rent development if the dwellings of the active build to rent development for which the *build to rent compliance period has not ended cease to satisfy subsection 43-153(1).</p>
              </content>
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            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__subclause-5">
              <num>5</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(5)	The <b><i>build to rent compliance period</i></b> for a *dwelling of an *active build to rent development is the 15 years beginning on the day after the day on which:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>unless paragraph (b) applies—the development *commences to be an active build to rent development; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>if:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>the dwelling is not part of the development when it commences to be an active build to rent development; but</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>the development *expands to include the dwelling;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__subclause-6">
              <num>6</num>
              <content>
                <p>To make a choice for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), subparagraph (2)(b)(iii) or paragraph (3)(c) in respect of *dwellings, the owner of the dwellings must:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>make the choice in the *approved form; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>give it to <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role>.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__subclause-7">
              <num>7</num>
              <content>
                <p>The choice is taken to be made on the following day:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>if:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>the owner nominates a day in the choice; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p><role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> receives the choice before the nominated day;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-152__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>otherwise—the day <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> receives the choice.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153">
            <num>43-153</num>
            <heading>Build to rent developments—eligibility</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of <ref href="#sec-43">section 43</ref>-152, *dwellings of a building satisfy this subsection at a particular time if, at that time:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>each of the dwellings is:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>available to the public to be tenanted by way of lease for a period of 5 years or more in accordance with any requirements determined under subsection (1A); or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>being tenanted by way of lease as a result of being made available to the public to be tenanted by way of lease for a period of 5 years or more in accordance with any requirements determined under subsection (1A); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>all of the dwellings are:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>*residential premises; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>*taxable Australian real property; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-iii">
              <num>iii</num>
              <content>
                <p>not *commercial residential premises; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>all of the dwellings and *common areas for the dwellings are owned by a single entity; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-d">
              <num>d</num>
              <content>
                <p>the number of the dwellings that are *affordable dwellings is equal to or greater than:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>10% of the number of the dwellings; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>if the number of dwellings worked out under subparagraph (i) is not a whole number—that number rounded down to the nearest whole number of dwellings; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-e">
              <num>e</num>
              <content>
                <p>subsection (5) applies to each of the affordable dwellings.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <content>
              <p>Note:	For the purposes of paragraph (a), a lease is still offered to the public for a period of 5 years or more even if a prospective tenant subsequently requests and the lessor accepts a shorter lease.</p>
              <p>Affordable dwellings</p>
              <p>where:</p>
              <p><b><i>number of comparable affordable dwellings</i></b> means the number of the dwellings (including the test dwelling) that:</p>
              <p><b><i>number of comparable non</i></b><b><i>-</i></b><b><i>affordable dwellings</i></b> means the number of the dwellings that:</p>
              <p>Eligibility during construction</p>
              <p>Commissioner’s discretion</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__subclause-1A">
              <num>1A</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of subparagraphs (1)(a)(i) and (ii), <role refersTo="#minister">the Minister</role> may, by legislative instrument, determine requirements relating to the terms of the lease.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__subclause-1B">
              <num>1B</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of subparagraphs (1)(a)(i) and (ii), disregard a requirement determined under subsection (1A) if complying with that requirement would contravene a law of a State or Territory.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(2)	A *dwelling is an <b><i>affordable dwelling</i></b> if the requirements determined under subsection (3) in relation to the dwelling are met.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of subsection (2), <role refersTo="#minister">the Minister</role> must, by legislative instrument, determine requirements relating to a dwelling. Without limiting this subsection, the requirements may include requirements relating to:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the rent payable under the lease for the dwelling; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the income of the tenant or prospective tenant.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__subclause-4">
              <num>4</num>
              <content>
                <p>A reference in paragraph (1)(a) to the public in relation to a lease of a *dwelling is taken to be a reference to a segment of the public if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the dwelling is an *affordable dwelling; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>requirements determined under subsection (3) require that the dwelling be tenanted, or be available to be tenanted, only to that segment of the public.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__subclause-5">
              <num>5</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(5)	For the purposes of paragraph (1)(e), this subsection applies in relation to an affordable dwelling (the <b><i>test dwelling</i></b>) if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>are *affordable dwellings; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>have the same number of bedrooms as the test dwelling; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>have a floor area that is at least equal to the floor area of the test dwelling, but does not exceed 110% of that floor area.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>are not *affordable dwellings; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>have the same number of bedrooms as the test dwelling; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>have a floor area that is at least equal to the floor area of the test dwelling, but does not exceed 110% of that floor area.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__subclause-6">
              <num>6</num>
              <content>
                <p>Dwellings of a building are taken to satisfy subsection (1) at a particular time if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>one or more of the dwellings is not tenanted, and not available to be tenanted, at that time as mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) because of:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>construction of an extension, alteration or improvement to any of the dwellings or the building; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>the making of repairs to any of the dwellings or the building; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the dwellings satisfied subsection (1) just before paragraph (a) of this subsection began to apply; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>it is reasonable to expect that the dwellings will satisfy subsection (1) when the construction or repairs are completed.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__subclause-7">
              <num>7</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(7)	The Commissioner may determine that *dwellings of a building are taken to satisfy one or more of paragraphs (1)(a), (d) and (e) (the <b><i>eligibility criteria</i></b>) at all times during a particular period, if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the entity that owns the dwellings applies to <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> in the *approved form; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p><role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> is satisfied of the following:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>the dwellings did not otherwise satisfy the eligibility criteria at all times during the period due to events outside the control of the entity;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>the entity took all reasonable steps to ensure that the dwellings would satisfy the eligibility criteria as soon as practicable;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-iii">
              <num>iii</num>
              <content>
                <p>at the time of the determination, the dwellings satisfy the eligibility criteria;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__para-iv">
              <num>iv</num>
              <content>
                <p>at the time of the determination, the entity intends that each dwelling will satisfy subsection (1) for the remainder of its *build to rent compliance period.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-153__subclause-8">
              <num>8</num>
              <content>
                <p>A determination made under subsection (7) has effect according to its terms.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-154">
            <num>43-154</num>
            <heading>Notice of events</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-154__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>If any of the following events happen in relation to a *build to rent development, each entity to which subsection (3) applies must notify <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> of the event:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-154__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the development *commences to be an *active build to rent development;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-154__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the development *expands;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-154__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>the *ownership interest in the development is acquired by another entity;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-154__para-d">
              <num>d</num>
              <content>
                <p>the development *ceases to be an active build to rent development.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-154__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>The notice must be:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-154__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>in the *approved form; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-154__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>given no later than 28 days after the event.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-154__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>This subsection applies to the following entities:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-154__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the owner of the development at the time just before the event happens;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-154__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(b)	if in the income year in which the event happens, an entity is required to notify the Commissioner under subsection 16-150(4) in Schedule 1 to the <i>Taxation Administration Act 1953</i> of an amount to which subsection 12-450(5) in that Schedule applies, to any extent, because of a *dwelling of the development—the entity;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-154__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>if the event is the event mentioned in paragraph (1)(c) of this section—the entity that acquires the *ownership interest in the development.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-154A">
            <num>43-154A</num>
            <heading>References to buildings</heading>
            <content>
              <p>A reference in sections 43-151 to 43-153 to a building includes a reference to any other buildings that are on the same or adjacent land.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-10">
            <num>10</num>
            <heading>After section 43-235</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-237">
            <num>43-237</num>
            <heading>Post-26 February 1992 undeducted construction expenditure—modification for active build to rent developments that have ceased</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-237__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>This section applies if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-237__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>a part of *your area was an *active build to rent development area; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-237__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(b)	on a day (the <b><i>cessation day</i></b>) in the income year or a prior income year, the *active build to rent development of the active build to rent development area *ceases to be an active build to rent development.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-43-237__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>Section 43-235 applies to the part as if for each day in the use period:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-237__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>before the cessation day; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-43-237__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>that the part was an *active build to rent development;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <content>
              <p>you did not use the part in the *4% manner.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-11">
            <num>11</num>
            <heading>After Division 43</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p>Table of Subdivisions</p>
              <p>Guide to <ref href="#dvs-44">Division 44</ref></p>
              <p>44-A	Object of this Division</p>
              <p>44-B	Build to rent development misuse tax</p>
              <p>44-C	When tax is payable</p>
              <p>Guide to <ref href="#dvs-44">Division 44</ref></p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-44-1">
            <num>44-1</num>
            <heading>What this Division is about</heading>
            <content>
              <p>This Division removes certain tax concessions for build to rent developments when they cease to be active build to rent developments.</p>
              <p>Table of sections</p>
              <p>Operative provisions</p>
              <p>44-5	Object of this Division</p>
              <p>Operative provisions</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-44-5">
            <num>44-5</num>
            <heading>Object of this Division</heading>
            <content>
              <p>The object of this Division is to remove certain tax concessions for *build to rent developments when they *cease to be *active build to rent developments.</p>
              <p>Guide to Subdivision 44-B</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-44-10">
            <num>44-10</num>
            <heading>What this Subdivision is about</heading>
            <content>
              <p>You are liable to pay a tax if a build to rent development you own ceases to be an active build to rent development. The tax is on an amount (called a build to rent misuse amount) related to past capital works deductions and withholding amounts (if any) for the active build to rent development.</p>
              <p>Table of sections</p>
              <p>Liability for tax</p>
              <p>44-15	Liability for tax</p>
              <p>Build to rent misuse amounts</p>
              <p>44-20	Build to rent misuse amounts</p>
              <p>44-25	Your build to rent capital works deduction amount</p>
              <p>44-30	Your build to rent withholding amount</p>
              <p>Liability for tax</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-44-15">
            <num>44-15</num>
            <heading>Liability for tax</heading>
            <content>
              <p>You are liable to pay *build to rent development misuse tax for an income year if you have a *build to rent misuse amount for the income year.</p>
              <p>Note:	The amount of tax is set out in the <i>Capital Works (Build to Rent Misuse Tax) Act 2024</i>.</p>
              <p>Build to rent misuse amounts</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-44-20">
            <num>44-20</num>
            <heading>Build to rent misuse amounts</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-44-20__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(1)	You have a <b><i>build to rent misuse amount</i></b><b> </b>for an income year, equal to the amount worked under subsection (2), if the amount worked out under that subsection is greater than nil.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-44-20__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of subsection (1), the amount is the sum of:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-44-20__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the amount that is the sum of your *build to rent capital works deduction amounts, worked out under <ref href="#sec-44">section 44</ref>-25, for each *build to rent development to which subsection (3) of this section applies for the income year (if any); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-44-20__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the amount that is 10 times the sum of your *build to rent withholding amounts, worked out under <ref href="#sec-44">section 44</ref>-30, for each build to rent development to which subsection (3) of this section applies for the income year (if any).</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-44-20__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of paragraphs (2)(a) and (b), this subsection applies to a *build to rent development for an income year if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-44-20__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the build to rent development *ceases to be an *active build to rent development during the income year; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-44-20__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>you owned the *dwellings of the build to rent development immediately before that cessation.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-44-25">
            <num>44-25</num>
            <heading>Your build to rent capital works deduction amount</heading>
            <content>
              <p>		Your <b><i>build to rent capital works deduction amount</i></b>, for a *build to rent development that *ceases to be an *active build to rent development, is the amount worked out as follows:</p>
              <p>Method statement</p>
              <p>Step 1.	Identify each income year in which, at any time during the year, the *build to rent development was an *active build to rent development.</p>
              <p>Step 2.	For each of those years:</p>
              <p>where:</p>
              <p>	<b><i>active build to rent part</i></b>, of the *construction expenditure area, is the part of the area that was the *active build to rent development area, or part of the active build to rent development area at any time during the year.</p>
              <p><b><i>	days used</i></b> is the number of days in the income year that:</p>
              <p><b><i>	portion of construction expenditure</i></b> is the portion of *construction expenditure that is attributable to the *active build to rent part.</p>
              <p>Step 3.	Reduce the Step 2 amount for each *construction expenditure area, for each year, by the extent to which the *active build to rent part was used only partly for the *purpose of producing assessable income in the year.</p>
              <p>Note:	This step applies if:</p>
              <p>Step 4.	For each year, add up the amounts worked out under Step 3 for each *construction expenditure area.</p>
              <p>Step 5.	Add up the Step 4 amounts for each year.</p>
              <p>Step 6.	Multiply the Step 5 amount by:</p>
              <p>Step 7.	Your <b><i>build to rent capital works deduction amount</i></b> is the Step 6 amount multiplied by 1.08.</p>
              <p>Note:	You can have more than one build to rent capital works deduction amount because there can be more than one build to rent development for which you have a build to rent capital works deduction amount.</p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-44-25__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>identify each *construction expenditure area of capital works that are or include the *active build to rent development area of the *build to rent development at any time during the year; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-44-25__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>calculate the amount worked out by the following formula for each construction expenditure area:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-44-25__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>any entity owned or was the lessee of the *active build to rent part and used it in the *4% build to rent manner; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-44-25__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>any entity was the holder of the active build to rent part under a *quasi ownership right over land granted by an *exempt Australian government agency or an *exempt foreign government agency, and used it in the 4% build to rent manner.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-44-25__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>part of the income from the active build to rent part is exempt income; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-44-25__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>part of the active build to rent part was not used for the purpose of producing assessable income or was not available for that use; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-44-25__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>the active build to rent part was not used for such a purpose during a part of the days used period.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-44-25__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(a)	if *you are a company (other than a company in the capacity of a trustee)—the *corporate tax rate for the income year in which the *build to rent development *ceases to be an *active build to rent development (the <b><i>cessation year</i></b>); or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-44-25__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(b)	in any other case—the maximum rate specified in the table in <i>Income Tax Rates Act 1986</i> for the cessation year.<ref href="#part-I">Part I</ref> of Schedule 7 to the </p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-44-30">
            <num>44-30</num>
            <heading>Your build to rent withholding amount</heading>
            <content>
              <p>		Your <b><i>build to rent withholding amount</i></b>, for a *build to rent development that *ceases to be an *active build to rent development, is the amount worked out as follows:</p>
              <p>Method statement</p>
              <p>Step 1.	Identify each income year in which, at any time during the year, the *build to rent development was an *active build to rent development.</p>
              <p>Step 2.	For each of those years, identify each *fund payment made by the owner of the *active build to rent development, or each part of such a fund payment, (if any) that is referable to any of the following:</p>
              <p>	Note:	For the purposes of this step, it does not matter whether an amount must be withheld from a fund payment under <i>Taxation Administration Act 1953</i>.<ref href="#part-2">Part 2</ref>-5 in Schedule 1 to the </p>
              <p>Step 3.	For each year add up the amounts of payments, or parts of payments, identified under Step 2.</p>
              <p>Step 4.	Add up the Step 3 amounts for each year.</p>
              <p>Step 5.	Your <b><i>build to rent withholding amount</i></b> is the Step 4 amount multiplied by 1.08.</p>
              <p>Guide to Subdivision 44-C</p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-44-30__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>a payment of rental income under a lease of a *dwelling of the active build to rent development;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-44-30__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>a *capital gain from a *CGT event in relation to a dwelling of the active build to rent development.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-44-35">
            <num>44-35</num>
            <heading>What this Subdivision is about</heading>
            <content>
              <p>This Subdivision has rules about payment of build to rent development misuse tax.</p>
              <p>Table of sections</p>
              <p>44-40	When tax is payable—original assessments</p>
              <p>44-45	When tax is payable—amended assessments</p>
              <p>44-50	General interest charge</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-44-40">
            <num>44-40</num>
            <heading>When tax is payable—original assessments</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Your *assessed build to rent development misuse tax is due and payable at the end of 21 days after <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> gives you notice of the assessment of the amount of the *build to rent development misuse tax.</p>
              <p>Note:	For assessments of build to rent development misuse tax, see <i>Taxation Administration Act 1953</i>.<ref href="#dvs-155">Division 155</ref> in Schedule 1 to the </p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-44-45">
            <num>44-45</num>
            <heading>When tax is payable—amended assessments</heading>
            <content>
              <p>If <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> amends your assessment, any extra *assessed build to rent development misuse tax resulting from the amendment is due and payable 21 days after the day <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> gives you notice of the amended assessment.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-44-50">
            <num>44-50</num>
            <heading>General interest charge</heading>
            <content>
              <p>If an amount of *assessed build to rent development misuse tax that you are liable to pay remains unpaid after the time by which it is due to be paid, you are liable to pay the *general interest charge on the unpaid amount for each day in the period that:</p>
              <p>Note:	The general interest charge is worked out under <i>Taxation Administration Act 1953</i>.<ref href="#part-II">Part II</ref>A of the </p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-44-50__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>begins on the day on which the amount was due to be paid; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-44-50__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>ends on the last day on which, at the end of the day, any of the following remains unpaid:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-44-50__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>the assessed build to rent development misuse tax;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-44-50__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>general interest charge on any of the assessed build to rent development misuse tax.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-12">
            <num>12</num>
            <heading>Subsection 995-1(1)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p><b><i>4% build to rent manner</i></b> has the meaning given by subsection 43-145(2).</p>
              <p><b><i>active build to rent development </i></b>has the meaning given by subsection 43-151(2).</p>
              <p><b><i>active build to rent development area</i></b> has the meaning given by subsection 43-151(1).</p>
              <p><b><i>active build to rent part</i></b> has the meaning given by section 44-25.</p>
              <p><b><i>affordable dwelling</i></b> has the meaning given by subsection 43-153(2).</p>
              <p><b><i>assessed build to rent development misuse tax</i></b> means *build to rent development misuse tax, as assessed under Schedule 1 to the <i>Taxation Administration Act 1953</i>.</p>
              <p><b><i>build to rent capital works deduction amount</i></b><b> </b>has the meaning given by section 44-25.</p>
              <p><b><i>build to rent compliance period</i></b> has the meaning given by subsection 43-152(5).</p>
              <p><b><i>build to rent development</i></b> has the meaning given by subsections 43-152(1), (2) and (3).</p>
              <p><b><i>build to rent development misuse tax</i></b><b> </b>means tax imposed by the <i>Capital Works (Build to Rent Misuse Tax) Act 2024</i>.</p>
              <p><b><i>build to rent misuse amount</i></b> has the meaning given by section 44-20.</p>
              <p><b><i>build to rent withholding amount</i></b> has the meaning given by section 44-30.</p>
              <p><b><i>cease</i></b> to be an *active build to rent development has the meaning given by subsection 43-152(4).</p>
              <p><b><i>commence</i></b> to be an *active build to rent development has the meaning given by subsections 43-152(1) and (2).</p>
              <p><b><i>common area</i></b>, for *dwellings of an *active build to rent development, has the meaning given by subsection 43-151(3).</p>
              <p><b><i>expand</i></b>, in relation to an *active build to rent development, has the meaning given by subsection 43-152(3).</p>
              <p>Taxation Administration Act 1953</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-13">
            <num>13</num>
            <heading>Subsection 8AAB(4) (after table item 12)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-16">
            <num>16</num>
            <heading>After paragraph 12-395(3)(ac) in Schedule 1</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-16__para-ad">
              <num>ad</num>
              <content>
                <p>must specify the extent (if any) to which the payment is, or is attributable to, an amount that would be non-concessional MIT income only if subsection 12-450(5) were disregarded; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-17">
            <num>17</num>
            <heading>After paragraph 12-395(6)(ac) in Schedule 1</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-17__para-ad">
              <num>ad</num>
              <content>
                <p>must specify the extent (if any) to which the payment is, or is attributable to, an amount that would be non-concessional MIT income only if subsection 12-450(5) were disregarded; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-18">
            <num>18</num>
            <heading>At the end of section 12-450 in Schedule 1</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Add:</p>
              <p>Income from a build to rent development</p>
              <p>where:</p>
              <p><b><i>value of </i></b><b><i>the </i></b><b><i>interest in </i></b><b><i>the </i></b><b><i>dwelling</i></b> means so much of the value of the membership interest as is referable to the *dwelling.</p>
              <p><b><i>value of </i></b><b><i>the </i></b><b><i>membership </i></b><b><i>interest</i></b><i> </i>means the *market value of the *membership interest just before the time of the *CGT event.</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-18__subclause-5">
              <num>5</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(5)	Subject to subsection (7), the amount is <i>not</i> <b><i>MIT residential housing income</i></b> of the *managed investment trust under subsection (2) to the extent any of the following paragraphs applies to the amount in relation to a *dwelling of an *active build to rent development:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-18__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the amount is, or is referable to, a payment of rental income under a lease of the dwelling;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-18__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the amount is, or is attributable to, a *capital gain from a *CGT event in relation to the dwelling;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-18__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>all of the following subparagraphs apply:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-18__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>the amount is, or is attributable to, a part of a capital gain from a CGT event in relation to a *membership interest in an entity;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-18__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>just before the time of the CGT event, all or part of the *market value of the membership interest is referable to the dwelling;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-18__para-iii">
              <num>iii</num>
              <content>
                <p>subsection (6) applies to the part of the capital gain.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-18__subclause-6">
              <num>6</num>
              <content>
                <p>This subsection applies to the part of a *capital gain mentioned in paragraph (5)(c) worked out as follows:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-18__subclause-7">
              <num>7</num>
              <content>
                <p>Subsection (5) does not apply to an amount if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-18__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the *build to rent compliance period for each of the *dwellings of the *active build to rent development has ended; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-18__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>assuming that the build to rent compliance period for each of the dwellings had not ended, the active build to rent development would have *ceased to be an active build to rent development.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-19">
            <num>19</num>
            <heading>Subsection 16-150(1) in Schedule 1</heading>
            <content>
              <p>After “Commissioner” (first occurring), insert “, other than an amount to which subsection (4) applies,”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-20">
            <num>20</num>
            <heading>At the end of section 16-150 in Schedule 1</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Add:</p>
              <p>the entity must notify <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> of the amount:</p>
              <p>The notification must be in the *approved form and lodged with <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role>.</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-20__subclause-4">
              <num>4</num>
              <content>
                <p>If:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-20__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>an entity must pay an amount (even if it is a nil amount) to <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> under subsection 16-70(1) (about amounts withheld under Division 12); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-20__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>subsection 12-450(5) (about income from a build to rent development) applies to the amount;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-20__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>on or before the day provided in a determination under subsection (5) of this section; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-20__para-d">
              <num>d</num>
              <content>
                <p>if there is no such determination—on or before the day on which the amount is due to be paid (regardless of whether it is paid).</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-20__subclause-5">
              <num>5</num>
              <content>
                <p><role refersTo="#commissioner">The Commissioner</role> may, by legislative instrument, determine when <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> must be notified for the purposes of paragraph (4)(c).</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-21">
            <num>21</num>
            <heading>At the end of subsection 155-5(2) in Schedule 1</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Add:</p>
              <p>; (m)	an amount of *build to rent development misuse tax.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-22">
            <num>22</num>
            <heading>At the end of subsection 155-30(3) in Schedule 1</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Add:</p>
              <p>; (e)	the *build to rent development misuse tax payable by you for an income year.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-23">
            <num>23</num>
            <heading>Subsection 250-10(2) in Schedule 1 (after table item 37AC)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-24">
            <num>24</num>
            <heading>After paragraph 357-55(1)(fe) in Schedule 1</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-24__para-ff">
              <num>ff</num>
              <content>
                <p>*build to rent development misuse tax;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-25">
            <num>25</num>
            <heading>Application of amendments</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-25__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>(1)	The amendments of <i>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</i> made by this Schedule apply to capital works begun after 7:30 pm, by legal time in the Australian Capital Territory, on 9 May 2023.<ref href="#sec-43">section 43</ref>-145 of the </p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-25__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>(2)	The amendment of <i>Taxation Administration Act</i><i> 1953</i> made by this Schedule applies to an amount:<ref href="#sec-12">section 12</ref>-450 in Schedule 1 to the </p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-25__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>that is referable to a payment of rental income made on or after <date date="2024-07-01">1 July 2024</date>; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-25__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>that is, or is attributable, to a capital gain, or part of a capital gain, from a CGT event that happens on or after <date date="2024-07-01">1 July 2024</date>.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
        </hcontainer>
      </attachment>
      <attachment>
        <hcontainer name="schedule" eId="schedule-2">
          <heading>Buy now, pay later</heading>
          <content>
            <p>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009</p>
          </content>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-1">
            <num>1</num>
            <heading>Subsection 5(1)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p><b><i>buy now pay later arrangement</i></b> has the same meaning as in section 13D of the National Credit Code.</p>
              <p><b><i>buy now pay later contract</i></b> has the same meaning as in section 13D of the National Credit Code.</p>
              <p><b><i>low cost</i></b><b><i> credit contract</i></b> has the same meaning as in section 13E of the National Credit Code.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-2">
            <num>2</num>
            <heading>Subsection 5(1) (paragraph (a) of the definition of short-term credit contract)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>After “continuing credit contract”, insert “or a low cost credit contract”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-3">
            <num>3</num>
            <heading>Subsection 5(1) (paragraph (a) of the definition of small amount credit contract)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>After “continuing credit contract”, insert “or a low cost credit contract”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-4">
            <num>4</num>
            <heading>Subsection 160G(2) (note)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Omit “sections 5 and 6”, substitute “sections 5, 6, 13B and 13C”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-5">
            <num>5</num>
            <heading>After Part 1 of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-13B">
            <num>13B</num>
            <heading>Application of this Code to buy now pay later contracts</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Application of this Code apart from this section</p>
              <p>Note:	For when this Code applies in relation to a buy now pay later contract apart from this section, see sections 5, 6 and 13C. Section 13C deals with low cost credit contracts, including low cost credit contracts that are buy now pay later contracts.</p>
              <p>Extending the application of this Code</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-13B__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>This Code applies to the provision of credit under a buy now pay later contract (and to the buy now pay later contract and related matters) if, apart from this section, the Code applies to the provision of credit under the buy now pay later contract (and to the buy now pay later contract and related matters).</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-13B__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>In addition, this Code applies to the provision of credit under a buy now pay later contract (and to the buy now pay later contract and related matters) if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13B__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(a)	the credit provider, or the debtor, under the buy now pay later contract<i> </i>is a constitutional corporation; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13B__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>this Code would, apart from this section, apply to the provision of credit under the buy now pay later contract (and to the buy now pay later contract and related matters) if the following were disregarded:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13B__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>paragraph 5(1)(c) (which requires charges to be made for the provision of credit);</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13B__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>subsection 6(1) (which excludes the provision of certain kinds of short term credit);</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13B__para-iii">
              <num>iii</num>
              <content>
                <p>subsection 6(5) (which excludes the provision of credit for which only account charges are payable).</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-13B__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>If this Code applies to the provision of credit under a buy now pay later contract (and to the buy now pay later contract and related matters) under subsection (2), then:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13B__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>this Code applies in relation to all transactions or acts under the contract whether or not they take place in this jurisdiction; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13B__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>this Code continues to apply even if the credit provider ceases to carry on a business in this jurisdiction.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-13C">
            <num>13C</num>
            <heading>Application of this Code to low cost credit contracts</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Application of this Code apart from this section</p>
              <p>Note:	For when this Code applies in relation to a low cost credit contract apart from this section, see sections 5, 6 and 13B. Section 13B deals with buy now pay later contracts, including buy now pay later contracts that are low cost credit contracts.</p>
              <p>Extending the application of this Code</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-13C__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>This Code applies to the provision of credit under a low cost credit contract (and to the low cost credit contract and related matters) if, apart from this section, the Code applies to the provision of credit under the low cost credit contract (and to the low cost credit contract and related matters).</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-13C__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>In addition, this Code applies to the provision of credit under a low cost credit contract (and to the low cost credit contract and related matters) if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13C__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the credit provider, or the debtor, under the low cost credit contract is a constitutional corporation; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13C__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>this Code would, apart from this section, apply to the provision of credit under the low cost credit contract (and to the low cost credit contract and related matters) if the following were disregarded:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13C__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>paragraph 5(1)(c) (which requires charges to be made for the provision of credit);</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13C__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>subsection 6(1) (which excludes the provision of certain kinds of short term credit);</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13C__para-iii">
              <num>iii</num>
              <content>
                <p>subsection 6(5) (which excludes the provision of credit for which only account charges are payable);</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13C__para-iv">
              <num>iv</num>
              <content>
                <p>subsection 6(13) (which allows the regulations to exclude a provision of credit) and any exclusions made under that subsection;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13C__para-v">
              <num>v</num>
              <content>
                <p>subsections 6(14) and (17) (which allow ASIC to exclude a provision of credit) and any exclusions made under those subsections.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-13C__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>If this Code applies to the provision of credit under a low cost credit contract (and to the low cost credit contract and related matters) under subsection (2), then:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13C__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>this Code applies in relation to all transactions or acts under the contract whether or not they take place in this jurisdiction; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13C__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>this Code continues to apply even if the credit provider ceases to carry on a business in this jurisdiction.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-13D">
            <num>13D</num>
            <heading>Meaning of buy now pay later arrangement and buy now pay later contract</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Buy now pay later arrangement</p>
              <p>Buy now pay later contract</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-13D__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(1)	A <b><i>buy</i></b><b> </b><b><i>now pay later arrangement</i></b> is an arrangement or a series of arrangements:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13D__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p><i>	</i>(a)	under which a person (the <b><i>merchant</i></b>) supplies goods or services to a consumer (within the meaning of the National Credit Act); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13D__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(b)	under which a third person (the <b><i>BNPL provider</i></b>) directly or indirectly pays the merchant an amount that is some or all of the price for the supply mentioned in paragraph (a); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13D__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>that includes a contract between the BNPL provider and the consumer under which the BNPL provider provides credit to the consumer in connection with the supply mentioned in paragraph (a).</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-13D__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(2)	However, an arrangement or a series of arrangements of the kind described in subsection (1) is not a <b><i>buy now pay later arrangement</i></b><i> </i>if the arrangement or series of arrangements is of a kind prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subsection.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-13D__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of subsection (1), and to avoid doubt:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13D__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>it does not matter whether any fees or charges are payable by the consumer or the merchant in connection with the arrangement or series of arrangements; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13D__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>it does not matter whether the payment by the BNPL provider mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) occurs before, at or after the time when the goods or services are supplied by the merchant to the consumer as mentioned in paragraph (1)(a); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13D__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>it does not matter whether the contract mentioned in paragraph (1)(c) is a continuing credit contract; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13D__para-d">
              <num>d</num>
              <content>
                <p><i>	</i>(d)	it is not necessary for the arrangement or series of arrangements to include any contract to which the merchant, the consumer and the BNPL provider are all parties.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-13D__subclause-4">
              <num>4</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(4)	A contract is a <b><i>buy now pay later contract</i></b><i> </i>if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13D__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>it is part of a buy now pay later arrangement; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13D__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>it is a contract of the kind mentioned in paragraph (1)(c).</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-13E">
            <num>13E</num>
            <heading>Meaning of low cost credit contract</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-13E__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(1)	A contract is a <b><i>low cost</i></b><b><i> credit contract</i></b> if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13E__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>credit is, or may be, provided under the contract; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13E__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the contract is:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13E__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>a buy now pay later contract; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13E__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>a contract prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subparagraph; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13E__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>the period during which credit is, or may be, provided under the contract is no longer than the period (if any) prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13E__para-d">
              <num>d</num>
              <content>
                <p>the contract satisfies any requirements prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph that relate to fees or charges that are, or may be, payable under the contract; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13E__para-e">
              <num>e</num>
              <content>
                <p>the contract satisfies any other requirements prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <content>
              <p>Fees and charges</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-13E__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>To avoid doubt, regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (1)(d) may prescribe that a specified fee or charge, or a fee or charge of a specified kind, must, or must not, be payable under the contract.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-13E__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of this section, fees or charges:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13E__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(a)	include a charge referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition of <b><i>credit fees and charges</i></b> in subsection 204(1); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-13E__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>do not include a fee, charge, duty or expense referred to in paragraph (b), (c) or (d) of that definition.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-6">
            <num>6</num>
            <heading>Subsection 204(1) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p><b><i>buy now pay later arrangement</i></b>: see section 13D.</p>
              <p><b><i>buy now pay later contract</i></b>: see section 13D.</p>
              <p><b><i>low cost</i></b><b><i> credit contract</i></b>: see section 13E.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-7">
            <num>7</num>
            <heading>Subsection 204(1) of the National Credit Code (paragraph (a) of the definition of medium amount credit contract)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>After “continuing credit contract”, insert “or a low cost credit contract”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-8">
            <num>8</num>
            <heading>Application and transitional provisions</heading>
            <content>
              <p>General rule</p>
              <p>Early applications for licences etc.</p>
              <p>Transitional arrangements</p>
              <p>Note:	ASIC may deal with the application by granting, or refusing to grant, the licence (see <ref href="#sec-37">section 37</ref> of the Credit Act), by granting, or refusing to grant, the variation (see sections 45 and 46A of the Credit Act), or by refusing to receive the application (see <ref href="#sec-218">section 218</ref> of the Credit Act).</p>
              <p>Definitions</p>
              <p><b><i>covered credit activity</i></b><b> </b>means credit activity that relates to a buy now pay later contract or a low cost credit contract.</p>
              <p><b><i>Credit Act</i></b> means the <i>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009</i>.</p>
              <p><b><i>delayed commencement time</i></b> means the time when Part 2 of this Schedule commences.</p>
              <p>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-8__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>Subject to this item, the amendments made by this Part apply:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-8__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>on and after the delayed commencement time (see subitem (5)); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-8__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>in relation to contracts entered into before, on or after the commencement of this Part.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-8__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>Despite subitem (1), the amendments made by this Part apply on and after the commencement of this Part for the purposes of:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-8__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>Divisions 2, 3, 4 and 6 of <ref href="#part-2">Part 2</ref>-2 of the Credit Act (which are about licensing of persons who engage in credit activities); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-8__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p><ref href="#part-2">Part 2</ref>-3 of the Credit Act (which is about credit representatives).</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-8__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>Subitem (4) applies if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-8__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(a)	before the delayed commencement time, a person (the <b><i>applicant</i></b>) lodges an application in the approved form for:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-8__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>a licence authorising the applicant to engage in a covered credit activity (see subitem (5)); or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-8__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>ASIC to vary the conditions on the applicant’s licence by authorising the applicant to engage in a covered credit activity; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-8__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>immediately before the delayed commencement time, the application has not been withdrawn by the applicant or dealt with by ASIC; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-8__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(c)	the applicant is a member of the AFCA scheme at all times in the period (the <b><i>transition period</i></b>) that:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-8__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>starts at the delayed commencement time; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-8__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>ends when the application is withdrawn by the applicant, or dealt with by ASIC, whichever happens first.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-8__subclause-4">
              <num>4</num>
              <content>
                <p>The Credit Act does not apply in relation to covered credit activity to which the application relates if the covered credit activity is engaged in by any of the following persons during the transition period:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-8__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the applicant;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-8__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>a person who:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-8__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>is an employee or a director of the applicant, or of a related body corporate of the applicant; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-8__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>is acting on behalf of the applicant and within <role refersTo="#authority">the authority</role> of the applicant;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-8__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>a person who:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-8__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>the applicant intends to authorise under <ref href="#sec-64">section 64</ref> of the Credit Act to engage in the covered credit activity on behalf of the applicant, if the applicant becomes licensed to engage in the covered credit activity; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-8__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>could, after the delayed commencement time, be validly so authorised under <ref href="#sec-64">section 64</ref> of the Credit Act (as amended by this Act); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-8__para-iii">
              <num>iii</num>
              <content>
                <p>is authorised in writing by the applicant to act on behalf of the applicant and is acting within that authority;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-8__para-d">
              <num>d</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(d)	if there is a person covered by paragraph (c) of this subitem (a <b><i>prospective credit representative</i></b>) in relation to the applicant—another person who:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-8__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>the prospective credit representative intends to authorise under <ref href="#sec-65">section 65</ref> of the Credit Act to engage in the covered credit activity on behalf of the applicant, if the applicant becomes licensed to engage in the covered credit activity and the prospective credit representative becomes a credit representative of the applicant in relation to the covered credit activity; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-8__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>could, after the delayed commencement time, be validly so authorised under <ref href="#sec-65">section 65</ref> of the Credit Act (as amended by this Act); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-8__para-iii">
              <num>iii</num>
              <content>
                <p>with the written consent of the applicant, is authorised in writing by the prospective credit representative to act on behalf of the applicant and is acting within that authority.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-8__subclause-5">
              <num>5</num>
              <content>
                <p>In this item:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-9">
            <num>9</num>
            <heading>Subsection 5(1)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p><b><i>unsuitability assessment policy</i></b> has the meaning given by subsection 133BXG(1).</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-10">
            <num>10</num>
            <heading>Before section 115</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-115A">
            <num>115A</num>
            <heading>Scope of this Division</heading>
            <content>
              <p>This Division does not apply in relation to a credit contract that is a low cost credit contract.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-11">
            <num>11</num>
            <heading>Section 128</heading>
            <content>
              <p>After “the regulations”, insert “for the purposes of this section”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-12">
            <num>12</num>
            <heading>After paragraph 128(d) (before the penalty)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p>Note:	<ref href="#part-3">Part 3</ref>-2BA affects how this section, and other provisions in this Part, apply in relation to certain low cost credit contracts.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-13">
            <num>13</num>
            <heading>Paragraph 133(4)(b)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Omit “at the time of the contract is entered or the credit limit is increased, the information”, substitute “at the time the contract is entered or the credit limit is increased”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-14">
            <num>14</num>
            <heading>After Part 3-2B</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BX">
            <num>133BX</num>
            <heading>Guide to this Part</heading>
            <content>
              <p>This Part has rules that apply to certain licensees who are, or are to be, credit providers under certain low cost credit contracts. It applies in addition to the general rules in <ref href="#part-3">Part 3</ref>-2, and modifies some of those rules.</p>
              <p><ref href="#dvs-1">Division 1</ref> provides that a licensee may elect that this Part apply to the licensee in relation to some or all low cost credit contracts. This Part only applies to a licensee who has made an election, and only applies to such a licensee in relation to low cost credit contracts covered by the election.</p>
              <p><ref href="#dvs-2">Division 2</ref> modifies how some of the general rules in <ref href="#part-3">Part 3</ref>-2 apply to a licensee who has made an election. These modifications affect the rules that deal with the obligations of the licensee:</p>
              <p><ref href="#dvs-3">Division 3</ref> requires a licensee who has made an election to have a policy (called an unsuitability assessment policy) that sets out how the licensee will comply with the licensee’s obligation under <ref href="#part-3">Part 3</ref>-2 to assess whether a low cost credit contract will be unsuitable for a consumer.</p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BX__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>to assess whether a low cost credit contract will be unsuitable for a consumer before doing particular things in relation to the contract; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BX__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>not to enter, or increase the credit limit of, a low cost credit contract that is unsuitable for a consumer.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXA">
            <num>133BXA</num>
            <heading>Scope of this Part</heading>
            <content>
              <p>This Part applies if licensee makes election</p>
              <p>Licensee must keep copy of election and revocation</p>
              <p><ref href="#part-3">Part 3</ref>-2 not otherwise affected</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXA__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>A licensee may, in writing, elect that this Part apply to the licensee in relation to:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXA__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>all low cost credit contracts; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXA__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>each low cost credit contract in a specified class of low cost credit contracts.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXA__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>This Part:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXA__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>applies to a licensee if the licensee has made an election under subsection (1) and the election is in force; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXA__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>applies to such a licensee in relation to a credit contract if the credit contract is a low cost credit contract covered by the election.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXA__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>An election made under subsection (1) remains in force until the licensee revokes the election.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXA__subclause-4">
              <num>4</num>
              <content>
                <p>A licensee who makes an election under subsection (1) must keep a written copy of the election for the period:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXA__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>starting at the time when licensee makes the election; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXA__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>ending 6 years after the day on which the election ceases to be in force.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXA__subclause-5">
              <num>5</num>
              <content>
                <p>If a licensee revokes an election made under subsection (1), then the licensee must keep a written copy of the revocation for the period of 6 years after the day on which the licensee revokes the election.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXA__subclause-6">
              <num>6</num>
              <content>
                <p>Nothing in this Part affects how <ref href="#part-3">Part 3</ref>-2 applies to a licensee in relation to a credit contract if the licensee has not made an election under subsection (1) of this section that covers the contract.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXB">
            <num>133BXB</num>
            <heading>When inquiries etc. must be made</heading>
            <content>
              <p>For the purposes of applying <ref href="#sec-128">section 128</ref> to a licensee in relation to a low cost credit contract:</p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXB__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>paragraphs 128(aa) and (ba) are to be disregarded; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXB__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the period for making the assessment mentioned in paragraph 128(c), and the inquiries and verification mentioned in paragraph 128(d), is taken to be the period of 90 days (or other period prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph) ending immediately before the licensee starts to do the thing mentioned in paragraph 128(a) or (b) (whichever applies).</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXC">
            <num>133BXC</num>
            <heading>When inquiries etc. are reasonable</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXC__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>This section applies to a licensee who:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXC__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>enters a low cost credit contract with a consumer who will be the debtor under the contract; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXC__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>increases the credit limit of a low cost credit contract with a consumer who is the debtor under the contract.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <content>
              <p>Note:	The licensee must also have elected under subsection 133BXA(1) that this Part apply to the licensee in relation to the low cost credit contract: see subsection 133BXA(2).</p>
              <p>Relevant matters</p>
              <p>regard must<i> </i>be had to the matters covered by subsection (3) of this section, and regard may be had to any other relevant matters.</p>
              <p>Note:	Regulations made for the purposes of subsection 130(2) may prescribe particular inquiries or steps that must be made or taken, or that do not need to be made or taken, for the purposes of paragraph 130(1)(a), (b) or (c).</p>
              <p>Note:	The particular things that a licensee must do in order to satisfy the licensee’s obligations under paragraphs 130(1)(a) to (c) in relation to low cost credit contracts may vary from case to case, and may be less onerous in some cases than in others, depending on matters such as those covered by this subsection.</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXC__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>In determining whether the licensee has:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXC__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>made reasonable inquiries about the consumer’s requirements and objectives in relation to the low cost credit contract, as required under paragraph 130(1)(a); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXC__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>made reasonable inquiries about the consumer’s financial situation, as required under paragraph 130(1)(b); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXC__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>taken reasonable steps to verify the consumer’s financial situation, as required under paragraph 130(1)(c);</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXC__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>The matters covered by this subsection are the following:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXC__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the nature of the low cost credit contract (including the terms of the contract and the type and amount of credit provided under the contract);</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXC__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(b)	if there is a target market determination (within the meaning of the <i>Corporations Act 2001</i>) for the low cost credit contract—the nature of the target market for the low cost credit contract, as described in that determination;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXC__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>whether the consumer is financially vulnerable;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXC__para-d">
              <num>d</num>
              <content>
                <p>whether the licensee has any procedures in place to reduce the risk of the licensee providing credit to a consumer on terms that are not affordable for the consumer;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXC__para-e">
              <num>e</num>
              <content>
                <p>whether the licensee has any procedures in place to mitigate the harm that may be caused to a consumer if the licensee provides credit to the consumer on terms that are not affordable for the consumer;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXC__para-f">
              <num>f</num>
              <content>
                <p>any matters prescribed by the regulations.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD">
            <num>133BXD</num>
            <heading>Assessments etc. in relation to larger contracts</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(1)	This section applies to a licensee who enters a low cost credit contract (the <b><i>initial contract</i></b>) with a consumer who<b><i> </i></b>will be the debtor under the contract.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <content>
              <p>Entering the initial contract</p>
              <p>Note:	For <b><i>larger contract</i></b>, see subsection (7).</p>
              <p>Subsequent credit increases</p>
              <p>Note 1:	For <b><i>protected increase</i></b> and <b><i>protected period</i></b>, see subsection (7).</p>
              <p>Note 2:	Even if the licensee is taken under this subsection to satisfy <ref href="#sec-128">section 128</ref> in relation to the protected increase, it is still possible for the licensee to contravene subsection 131(1) or 133(1) in relation to the protected increase.</p>
              <p>Exceptions</p>
              <p>Definitions</p>
              <p><b><i>larger contract</i></b> means a low cost credit contract that:</p>
              <p><b><i>protected increase</i></b>: an increase to the credit limit of the initial contract is a <b><i>protected increase</i></b> if:</p>
              <p><b><i>protected period</i></b> means whichever of the following is shorter (disregarding paragraph (4)(b)):</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(2)	The licensee may satisfy paragraphs 128(c) and (d) in relation to entering the initial contract<i> </i>by (respectively):</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>making an assessment that would satisfy paragraph 128(c) in relation to entering a larger contract with the consumer; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>making inquiries and verification that would satisfy paragraph 128(d) in relation to entering the larger contract with the consumer.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>Subsection (4) applies if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the licensee satisfies paragraphs 128(c) and (d) in relation to entering the initial contract by:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(i)	making an assessment (the <b><i>initial assessment</i></b>)<b><i> </i></b>that would satisfy paragraph 128(c) in relation to entering, with the consumer, a larger contract with a particular credit limit (the <b><i>maximum credit limit</i></b>); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(ii)	making inquiries and verification (the <b><i>initial inquiries and verification</i></b>)<b><i> </i></b>that would satisfy paragraph 128(d) in relation to entering the larger contract with the consumer; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the initial assessment is an assessment that the larger contract will not be unsuitable for the consumer if the larger contract is entered in the period covered by the initial assessment.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__subclause-4">
              <num>4</num>
              <content>
                <p>If the licensee subsequently, within the protected period, makes a protected increase to the credit limit of the initial contract, then:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the licensee is taken to satisfy <ref href="#sec-128">section 128</ref> in relation to the protected increase (regardless of whether the initial assessment, and the initial inquiries and verification, were made within the period that applies in relation to the protected increase under that section); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the initial assessment is taken to be:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(i)	an assessment that covers the protected period;<i> </i>and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>an assessment that the initial contract will not be unsuitable for the consumer if the protected increase is made in the protected period.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__subclause-5">
              <num>5</num>
              <content>
                <p>Subsection (4) does not apply to the licensee in relation to the protected increase if, at the time when the protected increase is made, the licensee has information on the basis of which it would be reasonable to conclude that the credit contract is likely to be unsuitable for the consumer if the protected increase is made.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__subclause-6">
              <num>6</num>
              <content>
                <p>Despite subsections (3) and (4):</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the licensee may, at any time after making the initial assessment and before making the protected increase, make a new assessment in relation to the protected increase for the purposes of paragraph 128(c); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>if the licensee does so, then subsection (4) of this section does not apply to the licensee in relation to the protected increase.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__subclause-7">
              <num>7</num>
              <content>
                <p>In this section:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>has a credit limit that is greater than the credit limit of the initial contract when the initial contract is entered; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>has terms that are otherwise substantially the same as the terms of the initial contract when the initial contract is entered.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>after the increase, the initial contract has a credit limit that is no greater than the maximum credit limit (within the meaning of subparagraph (3)(a)(i)); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the terms of the initial contract after the increase are otherwise substantially the same as the terms of the initial contract immediately before the increase.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the period covered by the initial assessment;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXD__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the period of 2 years beginning when the period covered by the initial assessment begins.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXE">
            <num>133BXE</num>
            <heading>Assessments of low cost credit contracts—presumptions where credit limit of contract not above threshold amount</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXE__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>This section applies when determining, for the purposes of subsection 131(1), whether a low cost credit contract will be unsuitable for a consumer under paragraph 131(2)(b) if the contract is entered, or the credit limit of the contract is increased, in the period covered by the assessment mentioned in subsection 131(1).</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <content>
              <p>Note:	This section does not affect whether a low cost credit contract will be unsuitable for a consumer under paragraph 131(2)(a) or (c).</p>
              <p>Entering a low cost credit contract</p>
              <p>Increasing the credit limit of a low cost credit contract</p>
              <p>Definitions</p>
              <p><b><i>larger contract</i></b> means a low cost credit contract that:</p>
              <p><b><i>threshold amount </i></b>means:</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXE__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(2)	For the purpose of applying subsection 131(1) in relation to a licensee entering a low cost credit contract (the <b><i>initial contract</i></b>)<b><i> </i></b>with a consumer, if the credit limit of the initial contract, at the time the initial contract is entered, will be less than or equal to the threshold amount, then it is presumed (unless the contrary is proved) that the initial contract will not be unsuitable for the consumer under paragraph 131(2)(b) if the initial contract is entered in the period covered by the assessment.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXE__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>However, subsection (2) does not apply if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXE__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the licensee satisfies paragraph 128(c) in relation to entering the initial contract by making an assessment that would satisfy that paragraph in relation to entering a larger contract with the consumer (see subsection 133BXD(2)); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXE__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the credit limit of the larger contract is greater than the threshold amount.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXE__subclause-4">
              <num>4</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(4)	For the purpose of applying subsection 131(1) in relation to an increase (the <b><i>relevant increase</i></b>) made by a licensee to the credit limit of a low cost credit contract<b><i> </i></b>(the <b><i>initial contract</i></b>)<b><i> </i></b>with a consumer, if the credit limit of the initial contract after the increase will be less than or equal to the threshold amount, then it is presumed (unless the contrary is proved) that the initial contract will not be unsuitable for the consumer under paragraph 131(2)(b) if the relevant increase occurs during the period covered by the assessment.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXE__subclause-5">
              <num>5</num>
              <content>
                <p>However, subsection (4) does not apply if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXE__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the licensee previously satisfied paragraph 128(c) in relation to entering the initial contract by making an assessment that would have satisfied that paragraph in relation to entering a larger contract with the consumer (see subsection 133BXD(2)); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXE__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the credit limit of the larger contract was greater than the threshold amount; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXE__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>because of subsection 133BXD(4), the licensee is not required to make a new assessment in order to satisfy paragraph 128(c) into relation to the relevant increase.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXE__subclause-6">
              <num>6</num>
              <content>
                <p>In this section:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXE__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>has a credit limit that is greater than the credit limit of the initial contract when the initial contract is entered; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXE__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>has terms that are otherwise substantially the same as the terms of the initial contract when the initial contract is entered.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXE__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>$2,000, unless paragraph (b) applies; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXE__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>if the regulations prescribe another dollar amount (whether larger or smaller) for the purposes of this paragraph—that other dollar amount.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXF">
            <num>133BXF</num>
            <heading>Prohibition on entering unsuitable low cost credit contracts etc.—presumptions where credit limit of contract not above threshold amount</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXF__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>This section applies when determining, for the purposes of subsection 133(1), whether a low cost credit contract is unsuitable for a consumer under paragraph 133(2)(b).</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <content>
              <p>Note:	This section does not affect whether a low cost credit contract is unsuitable for a consumer under paragraph 133(2)(a) or (c).</p>
              <p>Entering a low cost credit contract</p>
              <p>Increasing the credit limit of a low cost credit contract</p>
              <p>Definitions</p>
              <p><b><i>threshold amount </i></b>means:</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXF__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purpose of applying subsection 133(1) in relation to a licensee entering a low cost credit contract with a consumer, if the credit limit of the contract, at the time the contract is entered, is less than or equal to the threshold amount, then it is presumed (unless the contrary is proved) that the contract is not unsuitable for the consumer under paragraph 133(2)(b).</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXF__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(3)	For the purpose of applying subsection 133(1) in relation to an increase made by a licensee to the credit limit of a low cost credit contract<b><i> </i></b>with a consumer, if the credit limit of the contract after the increase is less than or equal to the threshold amount, then it is presumed (unless the contrary is proved) that the contract is not unsuitable for the consumer under paragraph 133(2)(b).</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXF__subclause-4">
              <num>4</num>
              <content>
                <p>In this section:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXF__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>$2,000, unless paragraph (b) applies; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXF__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>if the regulations prescribe another dollar amount (whether larger or smaller) for the purposes of this paragraph—that other dollar amount.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXG">
            <num>133BXG</num>
            <heading>Licensee must have an unsuitability assessment policy</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXG__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(1)	A licensee must have a written policy (an <b><i>unsuitability assessment policy</i></b>) that sets out how the licensee will comply with sections 128 and 131 (which deal with assessments of unsuitability), as those sections apply in relation to low cost credit contracts.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <content>
              <p>Unsuitability assessment policy must be effective</p>
              <p>Regulations may prescribe further requirements</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXG__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>The licensee must ensure that the licensee’s unsuitability assessment policy is one that, if followed, makes it likely that the licensee will comply with sections 128 and 131, as those sections apply in relation to low cost credit contracts.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-133BXG__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>The licensee must comply with any requirements relating to unsuitability assessment policies prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subsection.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-15">
            <num>15</num>
            <heading>After subsection 17(15A) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p>Elections relating to low cost credit contracts</p>
              <p>then the contract document must contain a statement that the credit provider has made such an election.</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-15__subclause-15B">
              <num>15B</num>
              <content>
                <p>If:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-15__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the credit contract is a low cost credit contract; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-15__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the credit provider has made an election under subsection 133BXA(1) of the National Credit Act that covers the contract, and the election is in force;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-16">
            <num>16</num>
            <heading>Saving provision—regulations</heading>
            <content>
              <p>To avoid doubt, regulations prescribing a period for the purposes of <i>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009</i> that were in force immediately before the commencement of this Part:<ref href="#sec-128">section 128</ref> of the </p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-16__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>continue in force on and after that commencement; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-16__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>are taken, on and after that commencement, to be made for the purposes of that section as amended by this Part.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-17">
            <num>17</num>
            <heading>Application provision—obligations of credit assistance providers before providing credit assistance</heading>
            <content>
              <p><i>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009</i>, as amended by this Part, applies in relation to credit assistance provided on or after the commencement of this Part.<ref href="#dvs-4">Division 4</ref> of <ref href="#part-3">Part 3</ref>-1 of the </p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-18">
            <num>18</num>
            <heading>Application provision—Part 3-2BA of the Act</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Elections</p>
              <p>When inquiries etc. must be made</p>
              <p>When inquiries etc. are reasonable</p>
              <p>Assessments etc. in relation to larger contracts</p>
              <p>Presumptions</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-18__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>(1)	A licensee may, under subsection 133BXA(1) of the <i>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 </i>(the <b><i>Act</i></b>), make an election that covers a low cost credit contract whether the contract was entered into before, on or after the time (the <b><i>commencement time</i></b>) when this Part commences.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-18__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>Section 133BXB of the Act applies for the purposes of applying <ref href="#sec-128">section 128</ref> of the Act in relation to conduct mentioned in paragraph 128(a), (aa), (b) or (ba) of the Act that occurs on or after the commencement time.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-18__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>To avoid doubt, a period of 90 days mentioned in paragraph 133BXB(b) of the Act may start before, on or after the commencement time.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-18__subclause-4">
              <num>4</num>
              <content>
                <p>Section 133BXC of the Act applies in relation to:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-18__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>conduct mentioned in paragraph 133BXC(1)(a) or (b) of the Act that occurs on or after the commencement time; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-18__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>determining whether a licensee has done a thing mentioned in paragraph 133BXC(2)(a), (b) or (c) of the Act, whether that thing is done before, on or after the commencement time.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-18__subclause-5">
              <num>5</num>
              <content>
                <p>Subsection 133BXD(2) of the Act applies in relation to entering a low cost credit contract if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-18__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the contract is entered on or after the commencement time; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-18__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the assessment, and the inquiries and verification, mentioned in that subsection are made on or after the commencement time.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-18__subclause-6">
              <num>6</num>
              <content>
                <p>Subsections 133BXD(3) to (6) of the Act apply:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-18__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>in relation to entering a low cost credit contract, as mentioned in paragraph 133BXD(3)(a) of the Act, if:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-18__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>the contract is entered on or after the commencement time; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-18__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>the assessment, and the inquiries and verification, mentioned in that paragraph are made on or after the commencement time; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-18__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>in relation to an increase to the credit limit of a low cost credit contract, as mentioned in subsection 133BXD(4) of the Act, if the increase occurs on or after the commencement time.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-18__subclause-7">
              <num>7</num>
              <content>
                <p>Section 133BXE of the Act applies in relation to assessments mentioned in subsection 131(1) of the Act that are made on or after the commencement time.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-18__subclause-8">
              <num>8</num>
              <content>
                <p>Section 133BXF of the Act applies in relation to conduct mentioned in paragraph 133(1)(a) or (b) of the Act that occurs on or after the commencement time.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-19">
            <num>19</num>
            <heading>Application provision—information about elections</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Subsection 17(15B) of the National Credit Code, as inserted by this Part, applies in relation to a contract document for a low cost credit contract entered into on or after the commencement of this Part.</p>
              <p>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-20">
            <num>20</num>
            <heading>Subsection 64(5)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Omit “This section”, substitute “This subsection”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-21">
            <num>21</num>
            <heading>Paragraph 64(5)(c)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Repeal the paragraph, substitute:</p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-21__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>a person who is not a member of the AFCA scheme to engage in a credit activity in relation to a contract that is not a low cost credit contract; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-21__para-ca">
              <num>ca</num>
              <content>
                <p>a person who is not a member of the AFCA scheme to collect, on the licensee’s behalf, repayments made by a debtor under a low cost credit contract; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-22">
            <num>22</num>
            <heading>Paragraph 65(6)(c)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Repeal the paragraph, substitute:</p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-22__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>a natural person who is not a member of the AFCA scheme to engage in a credit activity in relation to a contract that is not a low cost credit contract; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-22__para-ca">
              <num>ca</num>
              <content>
                <p>a natural person who is not a member of the AFCA scheme to collect, on the licensee’s behalf, repayments made by a debtor under a low cost credit contract; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-23">
            <num>23</num>
            <heading>After subsection 71(5)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p>Exceptions—sub-authorisations relating to low cost credit contracts</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-23__subclause-5A">
              <num>5A</num>
              <content>
                <p>Subsections (1) and (4) do not apply to an authorisation under subsection 65(1) (which deals with sub-authorisations) that authorises a person to engage in credit activities in relation to a low cost credit contract.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-24">
            <num>24</num>
            <heading>After subsection 158(1)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p>Exceptions—credit activity relating to low cost credit contracts</p>
              <p>Form and content of credit guide</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-24__subclause-1A">
              <num>1A</num>
              <content>
                <p>Subsection (1) does not apply if the credit representative gives the consumer the licensee’s credit guide:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-24__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>for the purpose of satisfying subsection 113(1) in connection with the provision of credit assistance to the consumer in relation a low cost credit contract; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-24__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>for the purpose of satisfying subsection 126(1) in connection with entry into a low cost credit contract with the consumer; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-24__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>for the purpose of satisfying subsection 127(1) in connection with the assignment to the licensee of rights or obligations of a credit provider under a low cost credit contract.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-25">
            <num>25</num>
            <heading>Paragraph 160(3)(e)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>After “is a credit representative”, insert “and has been allocated a credit representative number”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-26">
            <num>26</num>
            <heading>Application provision</heading>
            <content>
              <p>When authorisation is of no effect</p>
              <p>Obligation to notify ASIC</p>
              <p>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-26__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>(1)	The amendments of sections 64 and 65 of the <i>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 </i>made by this Part apply, on and after the commencement of this Part, in relation to authorisations given before, on or after that commencement.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-26__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>(2)	Subsection 71(5A) of the <i>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009</i>, as inserted by this Part:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-26__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>to the extent that it relates to subsection 71(1) of that Act (which deals with the obligation to notify when an authorisation is given)—applies in relation to authorisations given on or after the commencement of this Part; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-26__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>to the extent that it relates to subsection 71(4) of that Act (which deals with the obligation to notify of changes after an authorisation is given)—applies, on and after the commencement of this Part, in relation to authorisations given before, on or after that commencement.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-27">
            <num>27</num>
            <heading>Subsection 16(1) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>After “credit contract”, insert “(other than a low cost credit contract)”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-28">
            <num>28</num>
            <heading>After subsection 16(1) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-28__subclause-1A">
              <num>1A</num>
              <content>
                <p>A credit provider must not enter into a low cost credit contract unless the credit provider has given the debtor:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-28__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>a precontractual statement setting out the matters required by <ref href="#sec-17">section 17</ref> to be included in the contract document; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-28__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>an information statement that complies with:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-28__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>the requirements prescribed by the regulations; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-28__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>any requirements determined by ASIC under subsection (1B) of this section.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-28__subclause-1B">
              <num>1B</num>
              <content>
                <p>ASIC may, by legislative instrument, determine requirements for the purposes of subparagraph (1A)(b)(ii). The requirements must be consistent with any requirements prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of subparagraph (1A)(b)(i).</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-29">
            <num>29</num>
            <heading>Application provision</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-29__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>Subject to subitem (2), the amendments of <ref href="#sec-16">section 16</ref> of the National Credit Code made by this Part apply in relation to entering into a credit contract on or after the commencement of this Part.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-29__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>The amendments do not apply in relation to entering into a credit contract on or after the commencement of this Part if the precontractual statement, and information statement, relating to the contract were given:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-29__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>before the commencement of this Part; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-29__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>in accordance with <ref href="#sec-16">section 16</ref> of the National Credit Code (as in force at the time the statements were given).</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <content>
              <p>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-30">
            <num>30</num>
            <heading>After subsection 17(6) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p>Where no interest charge is payable under low cost credit contract</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-30__subclause-6A">
              <num>6A</num>
              <content>
                <p>In the case of a credit contract that is a low cost credit contract, if no interest charges are payable under the contract then:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-30__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>subsections (4), (5) and (6) do not apply in relation to the contract document; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-30__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the contract document must contain a statement to the effect that no interest charges are payable under the contract.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-31">
            <num>31</num>
            <heading>Subsection 17(7) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Omit “The contract document must contain”, substitute “In the case of a credit contract other than a low cost credit contract, the contract document must contain”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-32">
            <num>32</num>
            <heading>After subsection 17(7) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-32__subclause-7A">
              <num>7A</num>
              <content>
                <p>If the credit contract is a low cost credit contract, and more than one repayment is to be made, then the contract document must contain:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-32__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the frequency of payment of repayments; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-32__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>if ascertainable, the amount of the repayments, the number of repayments and the total amount of the repayments; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-32__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>if the amount of the repayments is not ascertainable—the method of calculating the amount of the repayments.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-33">
            <num>33</num>
            <heading>After subsection 17(10) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-33__subclause-10A">
              <num>10A</num>
              <content>
                <p>If the credit contract is a low cost credit contract, and statements of account are to be given to the debtor by electronic communication, then the contract document must contain information about how the statements of account will be given.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-33__subclause-10B">
              <num>10B</num>
              <content>
                <p>If the credit contract is a low cost credit contract, and statements of account are not required to be given because of paragraph 33(3)(g), then the contract document must contain the information (if any) prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subsection.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-34">
            <num>34</num>
            <heading>At the end of subsection 33(3) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Add:</p>
              <p>; or (g)	in the case of a credit contract that is a low cost credit contract—the credit provider satisfies the requirements prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-35">
            <num>35</num>
            <heading>Application provision</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-35__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>On and after the commencement of this Part, <ref href="#sec-17">section 17</ref> of the National Credit Code applies in relation to a buy now pay later contract or a low cost credit contract only if the contract was entered into on or after the commencement of this Part.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-35__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>Paragraph 33(3)(g) of the National Credit Code, as added by this Part, applies on and after the commencement of this Part in relation to a low cost credit contract entered into before, on or after that commencement.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <content>
              <p>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-36">
            <num>36</num>
            <heading>Subsection 133BE(1) (paragraph (b) of the note)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>After “subsection 67(4)”, insert “and <ref href="#sec-67A">section 67A</ref>A”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-37">
            <num>37</num>
            <heading>Paragraph 61(2)(b) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Omit “<ref href="#sec-68">section 68</ref>”, substitute “<ref href="#sec-67A">section 67A</ref>A or 68”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-38">
            <num>38</num>
            <heading>Section 67 (heading) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Omit “<b>in</b>”, substitute “<b>under</b>”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-39">
            <num>39</num>
            <heading>After section 67 of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-67AA">
            <num>67AA</num>
            <heading>Increasing credit limits under low cost credit contracts</heading>
            <content>
              <p>A credit provider may increase the credit limit under a low cost credit contract only at the request of the debtor or with the written consent of the debtor.</p>
              <p>Note:	For low cost credit contracts that are continuing credit contracts, subsection 67(4) has the same effect as this section.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-40">
            <num>40</num>
            <heading>At the end of subsection 68(4) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Add “or <ref href="#sec-67A">section 67A</ref>A”.</p>
              <p>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-41">
            <num>41</num>
            <heading>Paragraph 32A(4)(b) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>After “the credit contract is a”, insert “low cost credit contract,”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-42">
            <num>42</num>
            <heading>After subsection 34(6) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-42__subclause-6A">
              <num>6A</num>
              <content>
                <p>Subsection (6) applies in relation to a low cost credit contract only if interest charges are payable under the contract.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-43">
            <num>43</num>
            <heading>Subsection 157(2) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>After “continuing credit contracts”, insert “or low cost credit contracts”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-44">
            <num>44</num>
            <heading>Section 158 of the National Credit Code (at the end of the heading)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Add “<b>or </b><b>low cost</b><b> credit contracts</b>”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-45">
            <num>45</num>
            <heading>At the end of subsection 158(1) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Add “or low cost credit contracts”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-46">
            <num>46</num>
            <heading>Subsection 158(2) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Repeal the subsection, substitute:</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-46__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>Accordingly, a reference in this Part to the provision of credit (or to a credit contract or related matters) does not include a reference to:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-46__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the provision of credit under a continuing credit contract (or to a continuing credit contract or matters related to such a contract); or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-46__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the provision of credit under a low cost credit contract (or to a low cost credit contract or matters related to such a contract).</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-47">
            <num>47</num>
            <heading>Section 159 of the National Credit Code (definition of consumer credit product)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>After “continuing credit contract”, insert “or a low cost credit contract”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-48">
            <num>48</num>
            <heading>Application provision—comparison rates</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-48__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>The amendments of sections 157, 158 and 159 of the National Credit Code made by this Part apply in relation to a credit advertisement that is published on or after the commencement of this Part.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-48__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of subitem (1), a credit advertisement that:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-48__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>began to be published before the commencement of this Part; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-48__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>remains published on, or for a period after, that commencement;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <content>
              <p>is taken to be published on or after that commencement.</p>
              <p>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-49">
            <num>49</num>
            <heading>Subsection 39C(1) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Omit “(1)”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-50">
            <num>50</num>
            <heading>Subsection 39C(2) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Repeal the subsection.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-51">
            <num>51</num>
            <heading>Subdivision C of Division 1 of Part 5 of the National Credit Code (heading)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Omit “<b>first direct debit default</b>”, substitute “<b>first default in payment</b>”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-52">
            <num>52</num>
            <heading>Section 87 of the National Credit Code (heading)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Omit “<b>the first time a direct debit default occurs</b>”, substitute “<b>of first default in payment</b>”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-53">
            <num>53</num>
            <heading>Before subsection 87(1) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p>Which defaults does this section apply to?</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-54">
            <num>54</num>
            <heading>Paragraph 87(1)(a) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>After “credit contract”, insert “(other than a low cost credit contract)”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-55">
            <num>55</num>
            <heading>After subsection 87(1) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p>Offence</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-55__subclause-1A">
              <num>1A</num>
              <content>
                <p>This section also applies if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-55__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>a debtor under a low cost credit contract is in default in relation to the payment of an amount under the contract; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-55__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>it is the first occasion when the debtor is in default in relation to such a payment.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-56">
            <num>56</num>
            <heading>Before subsection 87(5) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p>Other notice requirements not affected</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-57">
            <num>57</num>
            <heading>Application provision</heading>
            <content>
              <p>The amendments of <ref href="#sec-87">section 87</ref> of the National Credit Code made by this Part apply in relation to a default that occurs on or after the commencement of this Part.</p>
              <p>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-58">
            <num>58</num>
            <heading>Section 323 (paragraph beginning “Division 1A”)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>After “small amount credit contracts”, insert “, low cost credit contracts”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-59">
            <num>59</num>
            <heading>Paragraphs 323A(2)(a) to (d)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>After “small amount credit contract”, insert “, a low cost credit contract”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-60">
            <num>60</num>
            <heading>Subparagraphs 323B(1)(a)(i) and (ii)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>After “small amount credit contract”, insert “or a low cost credit contract”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-61">
            <num>61</num>
            <heading>Subparagraphs 323B(1)(b)(i) and (ii)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>After “small amount credit contracts”, insert “, low cost credit contracts”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-62">
            <num>62</num>
            <heading>Application provision</heading>
            <content>
              <p>The amendments made by this Part apply in relation to conduct mentioned in a paragraph of subsection 323A(1), (3), (4) or (5) of the <i>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009</i> if the conduct occurs wholly or partly on or after the commencement of this Part.</p>
              <p>National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-63">
            <num>63</num>
            <heading>Subsection 5(1)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p><b><i>electronic communication</i></b> has the same meaning as in the <i>Electronic Transactions Act 1999</i>.</p>
              <p><b><i>information system</i></b> has the same meaning as in the <i>Electronic Transactions Act 1999</i>.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-64">
            <num>64</num>
            <heading>Before section 332</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-331">
            <num>331</num>
            <heading>Giving information or documents in connection with low cost credit contracts</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-331__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(1)	This section applies in relation to a provision (a <b><i>covered provision</i></b>)<b> </b>of this Act or the National Credit Code that requires or permits a person (a <b><i>giver</i></b>)<b><i> </i></b>to give information or documents<b><i> </i></b>(<b><i>covered material</i></b>)<b><i> </i></b>to another person (a <b><i>recipient</i></b>)<b><i> </i></b>in connection with a low cost credit contract.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <content>
              <p>Making covered material available for retrieval on an electronic document retrieval system</p>
              <p>Note:	This subsection does not limit the ways in which a giver may give covered material to a recipient for the purposes of a covered provision.</p>
              <p>Note:	The information mentioned in paragraph (3)(b) might include, for example, the covered material’s electronic address or any password protecting the covered material.</p>
              <p>Note:	For <b><i>electronic communication</i></b> and <b><i>information system</i></b>, see subsection 5(1).</p>
              <p>Mandatory requirements relating to giving covered material</p>
              <p>No effect in relation to other kinds of credit contracts</p>
              <p>Interaction with other provisions</p>
              <p>Note:	For example, <i>Electronic Transactions Act 1999</i>) has no effect to the extent that it is inconsistent with subsection (6) of this section.<ref href="#sec-187">section 187</ref> of the National Credit Code (application of the </p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-331__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>Subject to subsection (6), a giver is taken to give covered material to a recipient for the purposes of a covered provision if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-331__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the giver notifies the recipient, in accordance with subsection (3), that the covered material is available for retrieval by the recipient on an electronic document retrieval system (see subsection (5)); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-331__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the giver makes the covered material available for retrieval by the recipient, in accordance with the notification, for a reasonable period after the giver gives the notification to the recipient; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-331__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>the covered material is made available for retrieval by the recipient in such a manner that it is reasonable to expect that the recipient will be able to save the covered material to an electronic file and print it.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-331__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of paragraph (2)(a), the notice must:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-331__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>explain the nature of the covered material; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-331__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>include any information relating to the covered material that the recipient needs in order to be able to retrieve the covered material.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-331__subclause-4">
              <num>4</num>
              <content>
                <p>The giver is taken to give the covered material to the recipient at the first time:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-331__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>that occurs at or after the time the giver gives the recipient the notification mentioned in paragraph (2)(a); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-331__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>at which the covered material is available for retrieval by the recipient as mentioned in paragraphs (2)(b) and (c).</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-331__subclause-5">
              <num>5</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of this section, covered material is available for retrieval by a recipient on an electronic document retrieval system if the covered material is available on an information system for retrieval by electronic communication by the recipient.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-331__subclause-6">
              <num>6</num>
              <content>
                <p>The giving of information or documents is to be disregarded for the purposes of a covered provision if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-331__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the regulations prescribe requirements relating to the giving of information or documents for the purposes of the covered provision; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-331__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>those requirements are not satisfied.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-331__subclause-7">
              <num>7</num>
              <content>
                <p>To avoid doubt, if a covered provision requires or permits information or documents to be given in connection with a credit contract that is not a low cost credit contract, this section does not apply in relation to the giving of the information or documents.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-331__subclause-8">
              <num>8</num>
              <content>
                <p>If this section is inconsistent with any other provision of this Act or the National Credit Code that deals with the giving of information or documents in connection with a low cost credit contract (even if the other provision also deals with other matters), then the other provision has no effect to the extent of the inconsistency.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-65">
            <num>65</num>
            <heading>Subsection 16(11) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Omit “electronic transactions and documents”, substitute “application of the <i>Electronic Transactions Act 1999</i>”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-66">
            <num>66</num>
            <heading>Section 187 of the National Credit Code (heading)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Repeal the heading, substitute:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-187">
            <num>187</num>
            <heading>Application of the Electronic Transactions Act 1999</heading>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-67">
            <num>67</num>
            <heading>Subsection 204(1) of the National Credit Code (definition of electronic communication)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Omit “has the same meaning as in the <i>Electronic Transactions Act 1999</i>”, substitute “has the same meaning as in section 5 of the National Credit Act”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-68">
            <num>68</num>
            <heading>Subsection 204(1) of the National Credit Code</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p><b><i>information system </i></b>has the same meaning as in section 5 of the National Credit Act.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-69">
            <num>69</num>
            <heading>Application provision</heading>
            <content>
              <p>The amendments made by this Part apply in relation to information or documents given on or after the commencement of this Part.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
        </hcontainer>
      </attachment>
      <attachment>
        <hcontainer name="schedule" eId="schedule-3">
          <heading>Medicare levy exemption for lump sum payments</heading>
          <content>
            <p>Medicare Levy Act 1986</p>
          </content>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-3__clause-1">
            <num>1</num>
            <heading>After section 9</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-3__clause-9A">
            <num>9A</num>
            <heading>Adjustment of taxable income for lump sum payments in arrears</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-3__clause-9A__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>This section applies to a person for a year of income if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-9A__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the person’s assessable income for the year includes one or more eligible lump sums; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-9A__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the total arrears amount is not less than 10% of the normal taxable income of the year; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-9A__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>in each relevant accrual year, one or more of the following applied:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-9A__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>the sum of the person’s taxable income and the annual arrears amount for the year did not exceed the phase-in limit;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-9A__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>under <ref href="#sec-8">section 8</ref>, no levy was payable by the person on the person’s taxable income and, if the annual arrears amount for the year had been included in the person’s taxable income, either no levy would have been payable or the amount of levy would have been reduced;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-9A__para-iii">
              <num>iii</num>
              <content>
                <p>under <ref href="#sec-8">section 8</ref>, the amount of the levy payable by the person on the person’s taxable income was reduced, and would also have been reduced if the annual arrears amount for the year had been included in the person’s taxable income;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-9A__para-iv">
              <num>iv</num>
              <content>
                <p>the person was a prescribed person for at least one day.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <content>
              <p>Note:	For <b><i>prescribed person</i></b>, see section 251U of the Assessment Act.</p>
              <p>the person’s taxable income for the year of income is taken not to include the total arrears amount.</p>
              <p>Note:	This subsection does not affect the person’s taxable income for the purposes of working out, under <ref href="#sec-8">section 8</ref>, the family income in relation to a spouse of the person.</p>
              <p><b><i>accrual year</i></b> has the meaning given by subsection 159ZR(1) of the Assessment Act.</p>
              <p><b><i>annual arrears amount</i></b> has the meaning given by subsection 159ZR(1) of the Assessment Act.</p>
              <p><b><i>eligible lump sum</i></b> has the meaning given by subsection 159ZR(1) of the Assessment Act.</p>
              <p><b><i>normal taxable income</i></b> has the meaning given by subsection 159ZR(1) of the Assessment Act.</p>
              <p><b><i>relevant accrual years</i></b> means:</p>
              <p><b><i>total arrears amount</i></b> has the meaning given by subsection 159ZR(1) of the Assessment Act.</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-3__clause-9A__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of subsections 6(1) and 7(1) and (2), the person’s taxable income for the year of income is taken not to include the total arrears amount.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-3__clause-9A__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of working out, under <ref href="#sec-8">section 8</ref>:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-9A__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>whether levy is payable by the person on the person’s taxable income for the year of income; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-9A__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>whether the amount of levy payable by the person on the person’s taxable income for the year of income is to be reduced;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-3__clause-9A__subclause-4">
              <num>4</num>
              <content>
                <p>In this section:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-9A__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>if there are 2 or more accrual years for the total arrears amount—the most recent 2 of those years; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-9A__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>in any other case—the accrual year for the total arrears amount.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-3__clause-2">
            <num>2</num>
            <heading>Application of amendment</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Section 9A of the <i>Medicare Levy Act 1986</i>, as inserted by this Schedule:</p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-2__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>applies to assessments for the 2024-25 year of income and later years of income; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-2__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>applies in relation to accrual years that begin before, at or after the commencement of this item.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
        </hcontainer>
      </attachment>
      <attachment>
        <hcontainer name="schedule" eId="schedule-4">
          <heading>Multinational tax transparency—country by country reporting</heading>
          <content>
            <p>Taxation Administration Act 1953</p>
          </content>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-4__clause-1">
            <num>1</num>
            <heading>After section 3CA</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3D">
            <num>3D</num>
            <heading>Publication of information by certain country by country reporting entities</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(1)	This section applies to an entity for a period mentioned in subsection (2) (the <b><i>reporting period</i></b>) if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the entity is:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>a constitutional corporation; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>a partnership in which each of the partners is a constitutional corporation; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__para-iii">
              <num>iii</num>
              <content>
                <p>a trust of which each of the trustees is a constitutional corporation; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the entity was a country by country reporting parent for a period that includes the whole or a part of the period mentioned in subsection (2) that preceded the reporting period; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>the entity is a member of a country by country reporting group at any time during the reporting period; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__para-d">
              <num>d</num>
              <content>
                <p>at any time during the reporting period, the entity or another member of the country by country reporting group is:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>an Australian resident; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(ii)	a foreign resident who operates an Australian permanent establishment (within the meaning of <i>Income Tax Assessment Act 1936</i>); and<ref href="#part-IV">Part IV</ref>A of the </p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__para-e">
              <num>e</num>
              <content>
                <p>assuming that the reporting period were an income year, both of the following apply:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>the entity’s aggregated turnover for the income year includes one or more amounts of income from an Australian source;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>the sum of those amounts is $10 million or more; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__para-f">
              <num>f</num>
              <content>
                <p>the entity is not included in a class of entities:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subparagraph; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>specified in a legislative instrument under subsection 3DB(4); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__para-g">
              <num>g</num>
              <content>
                <p>the entity and the reporting period are not specified in an exemption under subsection 3DB(5).</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of subsection (1), the period is:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>if paragraph (b) of this subsection does not apply—each period for which audited consolidated financial statements for the entity for the period are prepared; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(b)	if the entity does not prepare audited consolidated financial statements—each period for which the entity would be, on the assumption that the entity were a listed company (<i>Income Tax Assessment Act 1936</i>), required to prepare such statements.<ref href="#sec-26B">within the meaning of section 26B</ref>C of the </p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <content>
              <p>Publication of information</p>
              <p>Note:	Subsection 288-140(1) in Schedule 1 provides for an administrative penalty for failing to comply with this subsection on time.</p>
              <p>Government related entities</p>
              <p>Interpretation</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>An entity to which this section applies for a reporting period must, <quantity refersTo="#deadline">within 12 months</quantity> after the end of the reporting period:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>publish the information set out in subsection 3DA(1), except to the extent the entity, the information and the reporting period are specified in an exemption under subsection 3DB(6); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>do so by giving a document containing the information to <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> in the approved form.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__subclause-4">
              <num>4</num>
              <content>
                <p><role refersTo="#commissioner">The Commissioner</role> must, as soon as practicable after receiving the document given in accordance with paragraph (3)(b), make the information in the document available on an Australian government website.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__subclause-5">
              <num>5</num>
              <content>
                <p>This section does not apply to a corporate tax entity for a period mentioned in subsection (2) if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(a)	the entity is a government related entity (within the meaning of the <i>A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999</i>); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p><role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> has given notice to the entity for the period under subsection (6).</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__subclause-6">
              <num>6</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(6)	For the purposes of paragraph (5)(b), the Commissioner may give notice in writing to a government related entity (within the meaning of the <i>A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999</i>) for one or more specified periods if the Commissioner considers that it is appropriate to do so.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3D__subclause-7">
              <num>7</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(7)	An expression used in this section or <i>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</i> has the same meaning as in that Act.<ref href="#sec-3D">section 3D</ref>A or 3DB that is also used in the </p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA">
            <num>3DA</num>
            <heading>Publication of information by certain country by country reporting entities—information to be published</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of paragraph 3D(3)(a), the information the entity must publish is as follows:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the name of the entity;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the names of each other entity that, at that time, was a member of the country by country reporting group;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>a description of the country by country reporting group’s approach to tax;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-d">
              <num>d</num>
              <content>
                <p>the matters listed in subsection (3) of this section for the reporting period in respect of each of the following jurisdictions:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>Australia;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>a jurisdiction specified in a determination under subsection (4), if the country by country reporting group operates in that jurisdiction;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-e">
              <num>e</num>
              <content>
                <p>in respect of the jurisdictions in which the country by country reporting group operates that are not mentioned in paragraph (d) of this subsection:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>a description of the country by country reporting group’s main business activities for the reporting period in the area consisting of those jurisdictions;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>for each matter listed in subsection (5), the amounts for the reporting period for that matter in respect of each jurisdiction in the area, published as a sum of those amounts for that matter;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-iii">
              <num>iii</num>
              <content>
                <p>the currency used in calculating and presenting the information mentioned in subparagraph (ii);</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-f">
              <num>f</num>
              <content>
                <p>if regulations for the purposes of this paragraph prescribe information—that information.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>However, for the purposes of this section and sections 3D and 3DB, the entity is taken to have published the information set out in paragraph (1)(e) of this section if it publishes the matters listed in subsection (3) for the reporting period in respect of each jurisdiction in which the country by country reporting group operates.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of paragraph (1)(d) and subsection (2), the following matters are listed:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the name of the jurisdiction;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>a description of main business activities;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>the number of employees (on a full-time equivalent basis) as at the end of the reporting period;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-d">
              <num>d</num>
              <content>
                <p>revenue from unrelated parties;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-e">
              <num>e</num>
              <content>
                <p>revenue from related parties that are not tax residents of the jurisdiction;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-f">
              <num>f</num>
              <content>
                <p>profit or loss before income tax;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-g">
              <num>g</num>
              <content>
                <p>the book value at the end of the reporting period of tangible assets, other than cash and cash equivalents;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-h">
              <num>h</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(h)	income tax<i> </i>paid (on a cash basis);</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>income tax accrued (current year);</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-j">
              <num>j</num>
              <content>
                <p>the reasons for the difference between:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>the amount mentioned in paragraph (i) of this subsection; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>the amount of income tax due if the income tax rate applicable in the jurisdiction were applied to the amount mentioned in paragraph (f) of this subsection;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-k">
              <num>k</num>
              <content>
                <p>the currency used in calculating and presenting the information mentioned in paragraphs (d) to (j) of this subsection.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__subclause-4">
              <num>4</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of subparagraph (1)(d)(ii), <role refersTo="#minister">the Minister</role> may, by legislative instrument, make a determination specifying jurisdictions.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__subclause-5">
              <num>5</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of subparagraph (1)(e)(ii), the following matters are listed:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the number of employees (on a full-time equivalent basis) as at the end of the reporting period;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>revenue from unrelated parties;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>revenue from related parties that are not tax residents of the jurisdiction;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-d">
              <num>d</num>
              <content>
                <p>profit or loss before income tax;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-e">
              <num>e</num>
              <content>
                <p>the book value at the end of the reporting period of tangible assets, other than cash and cash equivalents;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-f">
              <num>f</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(f)	income tax<i> </i>paid (on a cash basis);</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-g">
              <num>g</num>
              <content>
                <p>income tax accrued (current year).</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__subclause-6">
              <num>6</num>
              <content>
                <p>The amounts published by the entity for the matters listed in paragraphs (3)(c) to (i) and subsection (5) must be based on:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>if paragraph (b) of this subsection does not apply—amounts as shown in the audited consolidated financial statements for the entity for the reporting period; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(b)	if audited consolidated financial statements for the entity for the reporting period have not been prepared—amounts that would be, on the assumptions that the entity were a listed company (<i>Income Tax Assessment Act 1936</i>) and such statements were prepared, shown in those statements.<ref href="#sec-26B">within the meaning of section 26B</ref>C of the </p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <content>
              <p>Interpretation</p>
              <p>Note 1:	The document in paragraph (a) could in 2024 be viewed on the Global Reporting Initiative’s website (https://www.globalreporting.org).</p>
              <p>Note 2:	The documents in subparagraphs (b)(i) and (ii) could in 2024 be viewed on the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s website (https://www.oecd.org).</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__subclause-7">
              <num>7</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of determining the effect that paragraph (1)(c), subsections (3) and (5) and any regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (1)(f) have in relation to an entity, identify information mentioned in those provisions:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(a)	so as best to achieve consistency with Disclosures 207-1 and 207-4 of <i>GRI </i><i>207:Tax</i> <i>2019</i> of the Global Reporting Initiative’s Sustainability Reporting Standards; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>having regard to the following documents, to the extent they are relevant:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>the Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations, as approved by the Council of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and last amended on <date date="2022-01-07">7 January 2022</date>;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(ii)	<i>Guidance on the Implementation of Country</i><i>-</i><i>by</i><i>-</i><i>Country Reporting: BEPS Action 13</i> (2022) of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DA__para-iii">
              <num>iii</num>
              <content>
                <p>a document, or part of a document, prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subparagraph.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3DB">
            <num>3DB</num>
            <heading>Publication of information by certain country by country reporting entities—corrections and exemptions etc.</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Corrections</p>
              <p>publish information that corrects the error by giving a document containing the information to <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> in the approved form.</p>
              <p>Note:	Subsection 288-140(1) in Schedule 1 provides for an administrative penalty for failing to comply with paragraph (1)(a) of this section on time.</p>
              <p>Exemptions</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3DB__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>If an entity becomes aware that a document it has given to <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> under paragraph 3D(3)(b) contains an error, it:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DB__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>if the error is a material error—must; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DB__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>otherwise—may;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3DB__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>If paragraph (1)(a) applies, the entity must publish the information by giving the document containing the information to <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> no later than 28 days after the entity becomes aware of the error.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3DB__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p><role refersTo="#commissioner">The Commissioner</role> must, as soon as practicable after receiving the document given in accordance with subsection (1), make the information available on an Australian government website.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3DB__subclause-4">
              <num>4</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of subparagraph 3D(1)(f)(ii), <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> may, by legislative instrument, specify a class of entity to which subsection 3D(3) does not apply.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3DB__subclause-5">
              <num>5</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of paragraph 3D(1)(g), <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> may, by notice in writing, specify:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DB__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>an entity that is exempt from publishing information under subsection 3D(3); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DB__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the reporting period for which the exemption applies.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3DB__subclause-6">
              <num>6</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of paragraph 3D(3)(a), <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> may, by notice in writing, specify:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DB__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>an entity that is exempt from publishing information of a particular kind; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DB__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the particular kind of information that the entity is exempt from publishing; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-3DB__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>the reporting period for which the exemption applies.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3DB__subclause-7">
              <num>7</num>
              <content>
                <p>A notice under subsection (5) or (6) must only specify a single reporting period.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3DB__subclause-8">
              <num>8</num>
              <content>
                <p>A notice under subsection (5) or (6) is not a legislative instrument.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-4__clause-2">
            <num>2</num>
            <heading>After paragraph 8C(1)(aa)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-2__para-ab">
              <num>ab</num>
              <content>
                <p>to publish information in the manner in which it is required under a taxation law to be published; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3">
            <num>3</num>
            <heading>At the end of Division 288 in Schedule 1</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Add:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-4__clause-288-140">
            <num>288-140</num>
            <heading>Penalty for failing to publish information on time</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-288-140__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>You are liable to an administrative penalty if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-288-140__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>you are required under subsection 3D(3) or 3DB(2) to publish information by giving a document containing the information to <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> in the *approved form by a particular day; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-288-140__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>you do not publish the information by giving the document to <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> in the approved form by that day.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-288-140__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>The amount of the penalty is <quantity refersTo="#penaltyUnit">500 penalty units</quantity> for each period of 28 days or part of a period of 28 days:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-288-140__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>starting on the day mentioned in paragraph (1)(a); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-288-140__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>ending when you publish the information by giving the document to <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> in the approved form;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <content>
              <p>up to a maximum of <quantity refersTo="#penaltyUnit">2,500 penalty units</quantity>.</p>
              <p>Note:	<ref href="#dvs-298">Division 298</ref> contains machinery provisions for administrative penalties.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-4__clause-4">
            <num>4</num>
            <heading>Application</heading>
            <content>
              <p>The amendments made by this Schedule apply in relation to a reporting period mentioned in subsection 3D(1) of the <i>Taxation Administration Act 1953</i> that starts on or after 1 July 2024.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
        </hcontainer>
      </attachment>
      <attachment>
        <hcontainer name="schedule" eId="schedule-5">
          <heading>Deductible gift recipients</heading>
          <content>
            <p>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</p>
          </content>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-5__clause-1">
            <num>1</num>
            <heading>In the appropriate position in subsection 30-25(2) (table)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-5__clause-2">
            <num>2</num>
            <heading>In the appropriate position in section 30-65 (table)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-5__clause-3">
            <num>3</num>
            <heading>Section 30-315 (after table item 21)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-5__clause-4">
            <num>4</num>
            <heading>Section 30-315 (after table item 26)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-5__clause-5">
            <num>5</num>
            <heading>Section 30-315 (after table item 29)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-5__clause-6">
            <num>6</num>
            <heading>Section 30-315 (after table item 34)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-5__clause-7">
            <num>7</num>
            <heading>Section 30-315 (after table item 48AA)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-5__clause-8">
            <num>8</num>
            <heading>Section 30-315 (after table item 57)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-5__clause-9">
            <num>9</num>
            <heading>Section 30-315 (after table item 63)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-5__clause-10">
            <num>10</num>
            <heading>Section 30-315 (after table item 80)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-5__clause-11">
            <num>11</num>
            <heading>Section 30-315 (after table item 112AG)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-5__clause-12">
            <num>12</num>
            <heading>Section 30-315 (after table item 113)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-5__clause-13">
            <num>13</num>
            <heading>In the appropriate position in subsection 30-105(2) (table)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-5__clause-14">
            <num>14</num>
            <heading>In the appropriate position in section 30-105 (table)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
        </hcontainer>
      </attachment>
      <attachment>
        <hcontainer name="schedule" eId="schedule-6">
          <heading>National skills and workforce development payments</heading>
          <content>
            <p>Federal Financial Relations Act 2009</p>
          </content>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-6__clause-1">
            <num>1</num>
            <heading>After paragraph 3(1)(a)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-6__clause-1__para-aa">
              <num>aa</num>
              <content>
                <p>payments to be spent by the States in accordance with a skills and workforce development agreement; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-6__clause-2">
            <num>2</num>
            <heading>Section 4</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p><b><i>skills and workforce development agreement</i></b> means:</p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-6__clause-2__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the National Skills Agreement that was entered into between the Commonwealth and the States and that took effect on <date date="2024-01-01">1 January 2024</date>, as amended from time to time; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-6__clause-2__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>if the agreement referred to in paragraph (a) ceases to have effect—an agreement, as amended from time to time, that:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-6__clause-2__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>is entered into between the Commonwealth and one or more States; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-6__clause-2__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>relates to skills or workforce development, or both; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-6__clause-2__para-iii">
              <num>iii</num>
              <content>
                <p>is expressed to be a skills and workforce development agreement for the purposes of this Act; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-6__clause-2__para-iv">
              <num>iv</num>
              <content>
                <p>is entered into before or after the commencement of this paragraph.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-6__clause-3">
            <num>3</num>
            <heading>After Part 2</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-6__clause-12A">
            <num>12A</num>
            <heading>National skills and workforce development payments</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Scope</p>
              <p>Determination</p>
              <p>Terms and conditions</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-6__clause-12A__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>This section applies to a State in relation to a financial year if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-6__clause-12A__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the State is a party to a skills and workforce development agreement; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-6__clause-12A__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the financial year is the 2024-25 financial year or a later financial year.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-6__clause-12A__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p><role refersTo="#minister">The Minister</role> may determine that an amount specified in the determination is to be paid to the State for the purpose of making a grant of financial assistance for the financial year for the purpose of expenditure in accordance with the skills and workforce development agreement.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-6__clause-12A__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(3)	A determination under subsection (2) is a legislative instrument, but <i>Legislation Act 2003</i> does not apply to the determination.<ref href="#sec-42">section 42</ref> (disallowance) of the </p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-6__clause-12A__subclause-4">
              <num>4</num>
              <content>
                <p>Financial assistance is payable to the State under this section for the financial year on condition that the financial assistance is spent in accordance with the skills and workforce development agreement.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-6__clause-12A__subclause-5">
              <num>5</num>
              <content>
                <p>Financial assistance payable to the State under this section is subject to such additional terms and conditions (if any) as are set out in the skills and workforce development agreement.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-6__clause-4">
            <num>4</num>
            <heading>Section 12</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Repeal the section.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-6__clause-5">
            <num>5</num>
            <heading>Paragraphs 17(b), 18(1)(b) and 18(2)(b)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>After “Part”, insert “2A,”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-6__clause-6">
            <num>6</num>
            <heading>After paragraph 21(a)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p>the skills and workforce development agreement; and</p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-6__clause-6__para-aaa">
              <num>aaa</num>
              <content>
                <p>if:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-6__clause-6__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>the determination relates to financial assistance to a State under <ref href="#sec-12A">section 12A</ref>; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-6__clause-6__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>the State is a party to a skills and workforce development agreement;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-6__clause-7">
            <num>7</num>
            <heading>Section 22</heading>
            <content>
              <p>After “<ref href="#part-2">Part 2</ref>”, insert “, <ref href="#part-2A">Part 2A</ref>”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-6__clause-8">
            <num>8</num>
            <heading>Definitions</heading>
            <content>
              <p>In this Part:</p>
              <p><b><i>Act</i></b> means the <i>Federal Financial Relations Act 2009</i>.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-6__clause-9">
            <num>9</num>
            <heading>Application provision—2024-25 financial year and earlier financial years</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-6__clause-9__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>Section 12 of the Act, as in force immediately before the commencement of this Schedule, continues to apply in relation to the 2024-25 financial year and earlier financial years despite the repeal of that section by this Schedule.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-6__clause-9__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>However, the following do not apply in relation to the 2024-25 financial year:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-6__clause-9__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>paragraph 12(2)(c) of the Act;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-6__clause-9__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>subsections 12(4) and (5) of the Act;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-6__clause-9__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>any determinations under the subsections mentioned in paragraph (b) of this subitem.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-6__clause-9__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>Instead, the total amount of all financial assistance payable under subsection 12(1) of the Act to the States for the 2024-25 financial year is the amount determined by <role refersTo="#minister">the Minister</role>, by legislative instrument, under this subitem.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-6__clause-9__subclause-4">
              <num>4</num>
              <content>
                <p><role refersTo="#minister">The Minister</role> may, by legislative instrument, determine the manner in which the total amount determined under subitem (3) of this item is to be divided between the States.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-6__clause-9__subclause-5">
              <num>5</num>
              <content>
                <p>(5)	Section 42 (disallowance) of the <i>Legislation Act 2003</i> does not apply to a determination made under subitem (3) or (4) of this item.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-6__clause-9__subclause-6">
              <num>6</num>
              <content>
                <p>To avoid doubt, a determination under:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-6__clause-9__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>subitem (3) or (4) of this item; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-6__clause-9__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>subsection 12(4) or (5) of the Act, as those subsections are continued in force by subitem (1) of this item;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <content>
              <p>may be made after the end of the financial year to which the determination relates.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-6__clause-10">
            <num>10</num>
            <heading>Saving provision—determinations</heading>
            <content>
              <p>If:</p>
              <p>then, despite the repeal of <ref href="#sec-12">section 12</ref> of that Act by this Schedule, the determination continues in force, on and after that commencement, as if that section had not been repealed.</p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-6__clause-10__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>a determination was made in relation to the 2023-24 financial year or an earlier financial year under subsection 12(4) or (5) of the Act; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-6__clause-10__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the determination is in force immediately before the commencement of this Schedule;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-6__clause-11">
            <num>11</num>
            <heading>Application provision—overpayment or underpayment of grant</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Overpayments</p>
              <p>Underpayments</p>
              <p>[<i>Minister’s second reading speech made in—</i></p>
              <p>
                <i>House of Representatives on 5 June 2024</i>
              </p>
              <p><i>Senate on 28 November 2024</i>]</p>
              <p>(65/24)</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-6__clause-11__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>If a State has been paid an amount in excess of the amount that, under <ref href="#sec-12">section 12</ref> of the Act, it was entitled to receive by way of financial assistance for the 2024-25 or 2023-24 financial year:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-6__clause-11__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p><ref href="#sec-18">section 18</ref> of the Act does not apply to the amount; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-6__clause-11__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p><role refersTo="#minister">the Minister</role> must deduct an amount equal to the excess from any amount that the State is entitled to receive by way of financial assistance under section 12A of that Act for the first practicable subsequent financial year.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-6__clause-11__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>If a State has been paid less than the amount that, under <ref href="#sec-12">section 12</ref> of the Act, it was entitled to receive by way of financial assistance for the 2024-25 or 2023-24 financial year:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-6__clause-11__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p><ref href="#sec-18">section 18</ref> of the Act does not apply to the amount; and</p>
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              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p><role refersTo="#minister">the Minister</role> must add an amount equal to the shortfall to any amount that the State is entitled to receive by way of financial assistance under section 12A of the Act for the first practicable subsequent financial year.</p>
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