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Australia's Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Act 2020

No. 116, 2020

An Act to protect and manage Australia's foreign relations, and for related purposes

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
Division 1—Preliminary matters
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Simplified outline of this Act
4 Definitions
Division 2—Core provisions of this Act
5 Object of this Act
6 Foreign arrangements
7 What are State/Territory entities?
8 What are foreign entities?
9 What is an arrangement?
10 Core foreign arrangements
11 Application of this Act to subsidiary arrangements
12 What is a subsidiary arrangement?
13 Application of this Act to variations of arrangements
Part 2—Negotiating and entering core foreign arrangements
Division 1—Simplified outline of this Part
14 Simplified outline of this Part
Division 2—Negotiating core foreign arrangements
15 Prohibition on negotiations without the Minister's approval
16 Requirement to notify the Minister about negotiations
17 The Minister's decision about negotiations
18 Notices relating to the Minister's approval under subsection 17(2)
19 When the Minister's approval under subsection 17(2) is in force
20 Notice of the Minister's refusal under subsection 17(3)
21 When the Minister is taken to have given approval for negotiations
Division 3—Entering core foreign arrangements
22 Prohibition on entering core foreign arrangements
23 Requirement to notify the Minister before entering core foreign arrangements
24 The Minister's decision about proposals to enter core foreign arrangements
25 Notices relating to the Minister's approval under subsection 24(2)
26 When the Minister's approval under subsection 24(2) is in force
27 Notice of the Minister's refusal under subsection 24(3)
28 When the Minister is taken to have given approval for proposals to enter core foreign arrangements
29 Requirement to notify the Minister about entering core foreign arrangements
Division 4—Consequences of unlawfully entering core foreign arrangements
Subdivision A—Effect on legally binding arrangements
30 Arrangements that purport to be legally binding under Australian law
31 Arrangements that are legally binding under foreign law
Subdivision B—Effect on non‑legally binding arrangements
32 Arrangements that are not legally binding
Part 3—Entering non‑core foreign arrangements
Division 1—Simplified outline of this Part
33 Simplified outline of this Part
Division 2—Entering non‑core foreign arrangements
Subdivision A—Requirement to notify the Minister about proposals to enter non‑core foreign arrangements
34 Requirement to notify the Minister about proposals to enter non‑core foreign arrangements
Subdivision B—Declarations about negotiations or proposals to enter non‑core foreign arrangements
35 Declarations about negotiating non‑core foreign arrangements
36 Declarations about proposals to enter non‑core foreign arrangements
Subdivision C—Matters relating to declarations under this Part
37 Matters relating to declarations under this Part
Subdivision D—Requirement to notify the Minister about entering non‑core foreign arrangements
38 Requirement to notify the Minister about entering non‑core foreign arrangements
Part 4—The Minister's powers to make declarations about foreign arrangements,