Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Location of Corporate Commonwealth Entities) Order 2016

Dated 23 November 2016

Mathias Cormann

Contents

1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1

4............ Location of corporate Commonwealth entities............................................................... 1

5............ Application.................................................................................................................... 1

1  Name

                   This instrument is the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Location of Corporate Commonwealth Entities) Order 2016.

2  Commencement

             (1)  Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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

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

3  Authority

                   This instrument is made under subsection 22(1) of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.

4  Location of corporate Commonwealth entities

             (1)  It is a policy of the Australian Government that a corporate Commonwealth entity with agricultural policy or regulatory responsibilities is to be located:

                     (a)  in a regional community; and

                     (b)  within 10 kilometres by road of the main campus of a regional university that is recognised for research and teaching in the field of agricultural science.

             (2)  In this section:

regional community means a community that is not within 150 kilometres by road of Canberra or the capital city of a State.

5  Application

                   The policy of the Australian Government mentioned in section 4 is applied to the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority.