Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Legislation Amendment (Australian Building and Construction Commission) Rules 2017

Dated   2 March 2017

Mathias Cormann

Contents

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

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

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

4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                                                                          2

Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Rule 2014       2

Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014                                               2

1  Name

                   This instrument is the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Legislation Amendment (Australian Building and Construction Commission) Rules 2017.

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Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 the following:

                     (a)  the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013;

                     (b)  the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2014.

4  Schedules

                   Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Rule 2014

1  Section 7BE

Repeal the section.

2  Schedule 2

Repeal the Schedule.

Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014

3  After clause 1 of Schedule 1

Insert:

1A  Australian Building and Construction Commission

                   For the purposes of the finance law:

                     (a)  the Australian Building and Construction Commission (the Commission) is a listed entity; and

                     (b)  the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner (the ABC Commissioner) is the accountable authority of the listed entity; and

                     (c)  the following persons are officials of the listed entity:

                              (i)  the ABC Commissioner;

                             (ii)  the staff of the Commission referred to in subsection 30(1) of the Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Act 2016;

                            (iii)  persons whose services are made available to the ABC Commissioner under section 31 of that Act;

                            (iv)  consultants engaged under section 32 of that Act; and

                     (d)  the purposes of the listed entity include the functions of the ABC Commissioner referred to in section 16 of that Act.

4  Clause 17A of Schedule 1

Repeal the clause.