Bill
Export Market Development Grants Legislation Amendment Bill 2020
passed, as at 2020-12-17. Foreign Affairs and Trade portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Foreign Affairs and Trade
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2020-10-07
- second reading — 2020-10-07
- other — 2020-12-08
- second reading — 2020-12-08
- second reading — 2020-12-08
- other — 2020-12-08
- third reading — 2020-12-08
- introduced — 2020-12-09
- second reading — 2020-12-09
- second reading — 2020-12-10
- third reading — 2020-12-10
- passed — 2020-12-10
- royal assent — 2020-12-17
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2020-10-07.
The bill would overhaul the grant program for Australian small and medium exporters by moving operational rules out of the main Act and into subordinate legislation.
It would empower the Minister to set program rules through a disallowable legislative instrument, while keeping policy principles in the Act and relying on general Commonwealth laws where possible.
Austrade’s CEO could use an extra 2.5 per cent of the annual appropriation in 2020-21 and 2021-22 to cover transition costs.
- The bill replaces the current reimbursement model with upfront grant agreements.
- It limits eligibility to businesses that are new to exporting or expanding their export promotion.
- It allows industry bodies and alliances to receive funding that includes training in marketing and promotion.
- The bill moves program operational rules from the Act into subordinate legislation.
- It gives the Minister authority to make those rules through a disallowable legislative instrument.
- It amends the Austrade Act to let the CEO delegate decision-making powers to employees of non-corporate Commonwealth entities.
Australian small and medium enterprises that export and are either new to exporting or expanding their export promotion, as well as industry bodies and alliances that represent them.
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