Australia’s Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Amendment (Education) Rules 2021
I, Marise Payne, Minister for Foreign Affairs, make the following rules.
Dated 8 March 2021
Marise Payne
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Contents
1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1
3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1
4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1
Schedule 1—Amendments 2
Australia’s Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Rules 2020 2
1 Name
This instrument is the Australia’s Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Amendment (Education) Rules 2021.
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.
| Commencement information |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
| 1. The whole of this instrument | Immediately after this instrument is registered. | 7.59 pm (A.C.T.) 8 March 2021 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Australia’s Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Act 2020.
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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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
Australia’s Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Rules 2020
1 Section 4
Insert:
school means a school that provides any of the following kinds of education:
(a) preschool education;
(b) primary education;
(c) secondary education.
2 At the end of the instrument
Add:
8 Time for giving notices to Minister about pre‑existing core foreign arrangements
For the purposes of paragraph 2(3)(d) of Schedule 1 to the Act, the period of 6 months is prescribed for a pre‑existing foreign arrangement if:
(a) a core State/Territory entity that is a school is a party to the arrangement; or
(b) a core foreign entity that is a school located in a foreign country is a party to the arrangement.