Explanatory Memorandum
(Circulated by authority of the Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business, Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash)Notes on Clauses
Clause 1 - Short title
1. This clause provides for the Act to be the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Governance and Other Matters) Act 2020.
Clause 2 - Commencement
2. The table in subclause 2(1) sets out when the Act's provisions will commence.
3. Sections 1 to 3 and any provisions not elsewhere covered by the table commence on the day the Act receives Royal Assent.
4. Schedule 1, Parts 1 and 2 commence at a time and day to be fixed by Proclamation. If the provisions do not commence before 1 July 2021, they commence on that day. The extended time for proclamation is to ensure time for stakeholders to be sufficiently consulted on the changes and the enable time for the structural changes to the National VET Regulator to be organised.
5. Schedule 1, Part 3 commences on the later of:
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- immediately after the commencement of the provisions covered by table item 2; and
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- immediately after the commencement of Schedule 1 to the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Amendment Act 2020.
6. If the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Amendment Act 2020 does not commence, Schedule 1, Part 3 does not commence at all.
7. Schedules 2 and 3 are to commence the day after this Act receives Royal Assent.
8. A note to this table provides that the table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
9. Subclause 2(2) provides that any information in column 3 of the table in the Act is not part of the Act, and information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
Clause 3 - Schedules
10. Clause 3 provides that any legislation that is specified in a Schedule is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule and that any other item in a Schedule has effect according to its terms.