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CONTENTS
Export Market Development Grants (Repeal and
Consequential Provisions) Bill 1997
Date Introduced: 27 February 1997
House: House of Representatives
Portfolio: Trade
Commencement: The Act commences on 1 July 1997
The purpose of this Bill is to repeal the Export Market
Developments Grants Act 1974 (Act) and to
provide that certain approvals granted under the Act continue as if
made under the Export Market Development Grants Bill 1997
(Bill).
Reference should be made to the Background contained in the
Digest of the Bill.
Clauses 4 to 14 are
transitional provisions which provide for the following to continue
as if made or done under the Bill:
- approval of a person as an approved body, trading house, or
approved joint venture (clause 5)
- any guidelines created in respect of approval of trading houses
(clause 6)
- pending applications for approval as an approved body, trading
house, or approved joint venture (clause 7)
- invitations to make submissions as to why an approval should
not be cancelled and submissions received in response to such an
invitation (clause 8)
- determinations limiting the number of members of approved joint
ventures (clause 9)
- registration as a claimant (clause 10)
- determinations formulating grants entry tests (clause
11)
- the taking of grants entry tests (clause
12)
- decision making principles established by Austrade in respect
of exempting claimants from the change of ownership provisions
(clause 13)
Schedule 1 deals with the repeal of the
Act.Item 1 repeals the Act.Item 2
continues the Act in respect of matters outstanding at 1 July
1997.
Schedule 2 makes a number of minor
consequential amendments to the Australian Trade Commission
Act 1985 primarily to substitute '1997' for '1974' in the
title of all references to the Export Market Development
Grants Act 1974.
Lee Jones
18 March 1997
Bills Digest Service
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ISSN 1323-9031
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