Rural and Regional Adjustment Regulation 2011

This regulation may be cited as the Rural and Regional Adjustment Regulation 2011.

In this regulation—

repealed regulation means the repealed Rural and Regional Adjustment Regulation 2000.

For section 8(2)(j) of the Act, this section prescribes another function of the authority.

The authority has the function of helping QTC to administer the boost to buy scheme by providing the agreed services in accordance with the service level agreement, including by acting as the agent of QTC.

In this section—

agreed services means the services the authority is required to provide under the service level agreement.

boost to buy scheme means the non-statutory home ownership assistance initiative defined in the service level agreement as the Scheme.

QTC means the corporation sole mentioned in the Queensland Treasury Corporation Act 1988, section 5(2) as preserved and continued in existence under the name and style ‘Queensland Treasury Corporation’.

service level agreement—

means the agreement made between the State of Queensland (acting through Queensland Treasury), QTC and the authority called ‘Service Level Agreement: Queensland Boost to Buy Scheme’ that is published on the authority’s website on the day this section commences; but

does not include a reference to the agreement mentioned in paragraph (a) as varied, novated, ratified or replaced from time to time.

For section 11(1)(c) of the Act, each scheme set out in a schedule, other than schedule 16, is approved.

For section 11(4) of the Act, each scheme mentioned in schedule 16 is approved.

The Rural and Regional Adjustment Regulation 2000, SL No. 124 is repealed.

This section applies to the following provisions (each a saved provision) of the repealed regulation—

part 5, divisions 2, 3 and 4;

the schedule, parts 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 13 to 17 and 19 to 27.

Each saved provision—

is a law to which the Acts Interpretation Act 1954, section 20A applies; and

continues to apply to the things mentioned in it as if the repealed regulation had not been repealed.

This section applies if—

before the commencement, a person applied for assistance under an approved assistance scheme under any of parts 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 18 or 28 to 34 of the schedule of the repealed regulation; and

immediately before the commencement, any of the following applied—

the application had not been decided;

the authority had approved assistance for the person under the scheme and the person had not been given all of the assistance;

the scheme had otherwise not been fully administered in relation to the person.

The scheme, as in force immediately before the commencement, continues to apply in relation to deciding the application, giving the assistance or otherwise administering the scheme, as if the repealed regulation had not been repealed.

In this section—

commencement means commencement of this section.

In a document, a reference to an eligible natural disaster may, if the context permits, be taken to be a reference to an eligible disaster.

Schedules 12 and 24, as in force immediately before the commencement of this section, are declared to be laws to which the Acts Interpretation Act 1954, section 20A applies.

This section applies to an application for assistance under the scheme mentioned in schedule 1 if—

the application was made before the commencement; and

immediately before the commencement, the application had not been decided.

Section 10 of the schedule, as in force immediately before the commencement, continues to apply for deciding the application.

In this section—

commencement means commencement of this section.

Existing schedule 23 continues to apply to administering the special disaster assistance scheme in relation to TC Marcia as if the schedule had not been amended.

To remove any doubt, it is declared that subsection (1) applies even if an assistance establishment notice or an amendment of an assistance establishment notice under existing schedule 23, section 6, for TC Marcia, is published on the authority’s website on or after the commencement.

In this section—

eligible disaster means an eligible disaster under schedule 23, section 4 as in force before the commencement.

existing, for schedule 23 or a provision of schedule 23, means the schedule or provision as in force immediately before the commencement.

special disaster assistance scheme means the scheme under existing schedule 23.

TC Marcia means the eligible disaster described as ‘Severe Tropical Cyclone Marcia and South East QLD trough’ in the assistance establishment notice published on the authority’s website on 23 March 2015.

The amendment of schedule 1, section 6(8), definition base lending rate by the Rural and Regional Adjustment (White Spot Disease Concessional Loan Scheme) Amendment Regulation 2017 applies in relation to loans drawn down before or after the commencement.