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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2009 (NO. 1) (SLI NO 32 OF 2009)

 

 

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

 

Select Legislative Instrument 2009 No. 32

 

Issued by the authority of the Minister for Finance and Deregulation

 

Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997

 

Financial Management and Accountability Amendment Regulations 2009 (No. 1)


The Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 (FMA Act) provides a framework of rules for the proper management of public money and public property by Chief Executives and officials of FMA Act agencies.

Subsection 65(1) of the FMA Act provides that the Governor-General may make regulations prescribing matters required or permitted by the FMA Act to be prescribed, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the FMA Act.

Section 5 of the FMA Act provides that for the purposes of the FMA Act, a prescribed Agency means a body, organisation or group of persons prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of that definition. Agencies are currently prescribed in Schedule 1 to the Financial Management and Accountability Regulations 1997 (the Principal Regulations).

The amending Regulations insert Safe Work Australia (SWA) into the list of agencies in Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations, thereby prescribing SWA under the FMA Act.

SWA has the role of developing model occupational health and safety laws to be adopted by all jurisdictions.

 

The amending Regulations are a legislative instrument for the purposes of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.

In accordance with section 17 of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003, consultation was undertaken with the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.

The amending Regulations commence on 1 July 2009.


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