Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PRODUCT GRANTS AND BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION ACT 2000 NO. 61, 2000

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Object  
   4.      States and Territories are bound  
   5.      Definitions  
   6.      Operation of offence provisions  
   7.      Commissioner has general administration of this Act  

   PART 2--GRANTS AND BENEFITS COVERED BY ACT

   8.      Grants and benefits covered by Act  

   PART 3--REGISTRATION FOR GRANTS AND BENEFITS

   9.      Registration for entitlement to grants or benefits  
   10.     Refusal to register  
   11.     Cancellation of registration  

   PART 4--PAYMENT OF GRANTS AND BENEFITS

   12.     Claim periods  
   13.     Advances on account of grants or benefits  
   14.     Guidelines for making advances  
   15.     Claims for grants or benefits  
   16.     Further information  
   17.     Assessment  
   18.     Reliance by Commissioner on claim  
   19.     Commissioner must give you notice of an assessment  
   20.     Amendment of assessment  
   21.     Request for amended assessment  
   22.     Production of assessment is conclusive evidence  
   23.     Payment of grants or benefits  
   24.     Recovery by set-off  

   PART 5--RECORD-KEEPING REQUIREMENTS

   25.     No entitlement to grants or benefits unless record-keeping  
   26.     Pre-claim record-keeping requirements  
   27.     Post-claim record-keeping requirements  
   28.     Records that are lost or destroyed  

   PART 6--DISQUALIFICATION FOR FRAUD

   29.     Disqualification of claimant for fraud  
   30.     Disqualification for aiding and abetting etc. fraud  
   31.     Disqualification of body corporate—executive disqualified  
   32.     Disqualification of partnership—partner disqualified  
   33.     Disqualification of trust—trustee disqualified etc.  

   PART 7--CONTRIVED SCHEMES ETC.

   34.     Contrived schemes etc.  

   PART 8--CIVIL PENALTIES

   35.     General interest charge on unpaid scheme debts  
   36.     Penalty for making false statements  
   37.     Assessment of penalty  
   38.     Remission of penalty  
   39.     Amendment of assessment  
   40.     Production of assessment is conclusive evidence  
   41.     Relationship with offence provisions  

   PART 9--INFORMATION-GATHERING POWERS

   42.     Commissioner may obtain information and documents  
   43.     Self-incrimination  
   44.     Copies of documents  
   45.     Commissioner may retain documents  
   46.     Commonwealth bound by this Part  

   PART 10--PROTECTION OF CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION

   47.     Protection of confidentiality of information  

   PART 11--ACCESS TO PREMISES

   48.     Access to premises etc.  
   49.     Identity cards  
   50.     Commonwealth bound by this Part  

   PART 12--SPECIAL RULES FOR CERTAIN ENTITIES

   51.     Treatment of partners  
   52.     Treatment of unincorporated associations  

   PART 13--MISCELLANEOUS

   53.     Reviewable grant or benefit decisions  
   54.     Application of the Criminal Code  
   55.     Appropriation  
   56.     Grants and benefits to be treated as subsidies for the purposes of  
   57.     Address for service  
   58.     Service of documents if entity absent from Australia or cannot be  
   59.     Authorised officers  
   60.     Regulations