Industry Research and Development (COVID‑19 Consumer Travel Support Program) Instrument 2020

Dated 11 December 2020

Simon Birmingham

Contents

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

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

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

4............ Definitions..................................................................................................................... 1

5............ Prescribed program....................................................................................................... 1

6............ Specified legislative power............................................................................................ 1

1  Name

                   This instrument is the Industry Research and Development (COVID-19 Consumer Travel Support Program) Instrument 2020.

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Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 section 33 of the Industry Research and Development Act 1986.

4  Definitions

                   In this instrument:

Act means the Industry Research and Development Act 1986.

program: see subsection 5(1).

5  Prescribed program

             (1)  For the purposes of subsection 33(1) of the Act, the COVID‑19 Consumer Travel Support Program (the program) is prescribed.

             (2)  The purpose of the program is to alleviate the negative economic impacts of the coronavirus known as COVID‑19 on the travel industry by providing immediate, short‑term financial support to travel agents, and tour arrangement service providers, that qualify for the jobkeeper scheme.

6  Specified legislative power

                   For the purposes of subsection 33(3) of the Act, the powers of the Parliament to make laws with respect to the following are specified:

                     (a)  trade and commerce with other countries, and among the States (within the meaning of paragraph 51(i) of the Constitution);

                     (b)  bankruptcy and insolvency (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xvii) of the Constitution);

                     (c)  enterprises and activities that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation (see paragraph 51(xxxix) and section 61 of the Constitution).