Agency engagement [2022] AUSStaCSDLM 127 (30 November 2022)

• New matters
• Ongoing matters
• Concluded matters

Chapter 3

Agency engagement

3.1 As part of its technical scrutiny of legislative instruments, the committee may engage with relevant agencies via its secretariat to gather information or seek clarification to resolve minor technical scrutiny concerns. While this correspondence is confidential, the committee lists the relevant instruments on its website and provides a statistical overview of the relevant scrutiny issues raised in its Annual Reports. The committee reports on matters which cannot be satisfactorily resolved via engagement with the relevant agency in Chapter 1 of the Monitor.

3.2 Some instruments may be listed as both 'new' and 'concluded', where the committee via its secretariat has both raised and resolved concerns with the relevant agency in the period covered by the Monitor.

New matters

3.3 Of the instruments registered on the Federal Register of Legislation between 8 October and 21 October 2022, the committee commenced engaging with the relevant agency via its secretariat about the following 15 instruments.^[1]

Instrument
Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (reporting standard) determination No. 12 of 2022 [F2022L01350]
Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (reporting standard) determination No. 13 of 2022 [F2022L01344]
Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (reporting standard) determination No. 14 of 2022 [F2022L01348]
Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (reporting standard) determination No. 15 of 2022 [F2022L01346]
Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (reporting standard) determination No. 16 of 2022 [F2022L01353]
Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (reporting standard) determination No. 17 of 2022 [F2022L01349]
Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (reporting standard) determination No. 18 of 2022 [F2022L01366]
Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (reporting standard) determination No. 19 of 2022 [F2022L01364]
Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (reporting standard) determination No. 20 of 2022 [F2022L01369]
Military Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence, Veterans' and Families’ Acute Support Package) Instrument 2022 [F2022L01341]
Nuclear Non-Proliferation (Safeguards) Amendment Regulations 2022 [F2022L01340]
Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Defence-related Claims) (Defence, Veterans' and Families’ Acute Support Package) Instrument 2022 [F2022L01343]
Telecommunications Amendment (Disclosure of Information for the Purpose of Cyber Security) Regulations 2022 [F2022L01333]
Veterans' Entitlements (Defence, Veterans' and Families’ Acute Support Package) Instrument 2022 [F2022L01342]
Work Health and Safety (Managing the Risks of Respirable Crystalline Silica from Engineered Stone in the Workplace) Code of Practice 2022 [F2022L01368]

Ongoing matters

3.4 Since the last Monitor was tabled, the committee has concluded all outstanding matters involving agencies that were listed as ongoing in Delegated Legislation Monitor 8 of 2022. These instruments are listed below as concluded agency matters.

Concluded matters

3.5 The committee has concluded its consideration of the following 17 instruments after engagement with relevant agencies via its secretariat.^[2]

Instrument
Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Residential Aged Care Funding) Instrument 2022 [F2022L01276]
Education Services for Overseas Students (Calls on the OSTF—requirements for payments) Instrument 2022 [F2022L01302]
Education Services for Overseas Students (Notice Requirements) Instrument 2022 [F2022L01298]
Education Services for Overseas Students (Requirements for Notice to Immigration Secretary) Instrument 2022 [F2022L01303]
Education Services for Overseas Students (Suitable Alternative Courses) Instrument 2022 [F2022L01299]
Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (reporting standard) determination No. 12 of 2022 [F2022L01350]
Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (reporting standard) determination No. 13 of 2022 [F2022L01344]
Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (reporting standard) determination No. 14 of 2022 [F2022L01348]
Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (reporting standard) determination No. 15 of 2022 [F2022L01346]
Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (reporting standard) determination No. 16 of 2022 [F2022L01353]
Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (reporting standard) determination No. 17 of 2022 [F2022L01349]
Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (reporting standard) determination No. 18 of 2022 [F2022L01366]
Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (reporting standard) determination No. 19 of 2022 [F2022L01364]
Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (reporting standard) determination No. 20 of 2022 [F2022L01369]
Industry Fellowships Program (IFP) Grants Guidelines [F2022L01187]
National Health (Eligible Midwives) Determination 2022 [F2022L01262]
Veterans' Affairs (Treatment Principles—Extending Access to Allied Health and Rehabilitation Appliances for Residential Care Recipients) Amendment Determination 2022 [F2022L01287]

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[1] For further details, see the Index of Instruments page on the committee's website.

[2] For further details, see the Index of Instruments page on the committee's website.