Future Drought Fund Act 2019

The Drought Minister must determine a plan for ensuring that a coherent and consistent approach is adopted in:

making arrangements or grants under section 21; and

entering into agreements under section 22.

For the purposes of this Act, Drought Resilience Funding Plan means a plan determined under subsection (1).

The Drought Minister must take all reasonable steps to ensure that:

the first Drought Resilience Funding Plan comes into force before 1 July 2020; and

a Drought Resilience Funding Plan is in force at all times after the first Drought Resilience Funding Plan ceases to be in force.

A Drought Resilience Funding Plan:

comes into force at the start of the day after the day the Plan is registered under the Legislation Act 2003; and

unless sooner repealed under subsection (5), is repealed at the end of the 4‑year period that began when the Plan came into force.

If a Drought Resilience Funding Plan is expressed to replace an existing Drought Resilience Funding Plan, the existing Plan is taken to be repealed when the replacement Plan comes into force.

A Drought Resilience Funding Plan must not require:

an arrangement to be made with a particular person; or

an arrangement to be made for carrying out a particular project; or

a grant to be made to a particular person; or

a grant to be made for carrying out a particular project.

A Drought Resilience Funding Plan is a legislative instrument.

The Drought Minister must ensure that a Drought Resilience Funding Plan that is in force is published on the Agriculture Department’s website.

Subsection 33(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 does not apply in relation to the power under this section to determine a Drought Resilience Funding Plan.