COVID‑19 Disaster Payment (Funding Arrangements) Act 2021 No. 70, 2021 An Act to make provision in relation to COVID‑19 disaster payments, and for related purposes Contents Part 1—Preliminary 1 Short title 2 Commencement 3 Definitions Part 2—Appropriation 4 Appropriation Part 3—Annual report 5 Inclusion of information in National Recovery and Resilience Agency's annual report COVID-19 Disaster Payment (Funding Arrangements) Act 2021 No. 70, 2021 An Act to make provision in relation to COVID‑19 disaster payments, and for related purposes [Assented to 30 June 2021] The Parliament of Australia enacts: Part 1—Preliminary 1 Short title This Act is the COVID‑19 Disaster Payment (Funding Arrangements) Act 2021. 2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms. Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this Act The later of: 1 July 2021 (a) 1 July 2021; and (b) the day after this Act receives the Royal Assent. Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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. (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act. 3 Definitions In this Act: COVID‑19 disaster payment means a payment or grant of financial assistance covered by item 492 of the table in Part 4 of Schedule 1AB to the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997. Part 2—Appropriation 4 Appropriation (1) The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated for the purposes of making COVID‑19 disaster payments. (2) This section applies to COVID‑19 disaster payments made on or after the commencement of this section and before the end of 30 June 2022. Part 3—Annual report 5 Inclusion of information in National Recovery and Resilience Agency's annual report The Coordinator‑General of the National Recovery and Resilience Agency, when preparing that Agency's annual report under section 46 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 for the reporting period commencing on 1 July 2021, must include information in that report that relates to COVID‑19 disaster payments made in that period. [Minister's second reading speech made in— House of Representatives on 16 June 2021 Senate on 23 June 2021] (68/21)