House of Representatives

Explanatory Memorandum

(Circulated by authority of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator the Honourable Marise Payne)

Notes on clauses

List of abbreviations

Preliminary

Section 1 Short title

30. Section 1 provides for the short title of the Act to be the Australia's Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) (Consequential Amendments) Act 2020.

Section 2 Commencement

31. Section 2 provides for the commencement of each provision of the Act, as set out in the table at subsection 2(1).

32. Item 1 in the table provides that sections 1 to 3 and anything in the Act not elsewhere covered by the table will commence on the day on which the Act receives Royal Assent.

33. Item 2 in the table provides that Schedule 1 will commence at the same time as section 1 of the Foreign Relations Bill commences. Section 2 of the Foreign Relations Bill provides that Part 1 of that Bill, which includes section 1, will commence on the day on which the Bill receives Royal Assent. Therefore, Schedule 1 of this Bill will commence on the day on which the Foreign Relations Bill receives Royal Assent.

34. Subsection 2(2) specifies that information in column 3 of the table at subsection 2(1) is not a part of the Act, and information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

Section 3 Schedules

35. Section 3 enables legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act to be amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and specifies that any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.