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Export Market Development Grants Amendment Act 1995

No. 83 of 1995

An Act to amend the Export Market Development Grants Act 1974,
and for related purposes

[Assented to 30 June 1995]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Export Market Development Grants Amendment Act 1995.

Commencement

2.(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(2) Part 15 of the Schedule is taken to have commenced on 1 July 1990.

Amendments

3. The Act specified in the Schedule is amended as set out in the Schedule.

Application

General

4.(1) Subject to this section, the amendments made by Parts 2 to 12 (inclusive) of the Schedule apply in relation to claims for grant in relation to periods beginning on or after 1 July 1994.

Tourism

(2) If paragraph 14(1)(c) of the Export Market Development Grants Act 1974 applies to a claimant in relation to a claim period that consists of, or is included in, the year beginning on 1 July 1994, the amendments made by Part 2 of the Schedule to this Act do not apply in determining the claimant's eligible expenditure for the year beginning on 1 July 1993.

AUSTRADE assistance schemes

(3) Section 11P of the Export Market Development Grants Act 1974 as amended by Part 6 of the Schedule to this Act does not apply to a project or activity approved for the purposes of a scheme of a kind referred to in paragraph (b) of that section unless the approval is given after the commencement of this section.

Change in ownership of business etc.

(4) The amendments of section 19 of the Export Market Development Grants Act 1974 made by Part 14 of the Schedule to this Act apply in relation to:

    (a) the sale or other transfer of a business or part of a business, if the sale or transfer occurs on or after the eligible starting day; or

    (b) a change in the membership of a partnership, if the change occurs on or after the eligible starting day; or

    (c) any other business arrangement, if the arrangement was entered into on or after the eligible starting day.

For this purpose, the "eligible starting day" is the earliest day on which principles formulated under section 19A of the Export Market Development Grants Act 1974 take effect.

Validation of certain guidelines

5.(1) This section applies to guidelines made under section 41 or 42 of the Export Market Development Grants Act 1974 at any time before the commencement of this section.

(2) Guidelines to which this section applies are taken:

    (a) to have been, at all times after their making; and