Industry Research and Development (Promote Mental Health for Small Business Operators Program) Instrument 2019 (Cth)

Industry Research and Development (Promote Mental Health for Small Business Operators Program) Instrument 2019 I, Michaelia Cash, Minister for Small and Family Business, Skills and Vocational Education, make the following Instrument.

Dated 5 February 2019

Michaelia Cash Minister for Small and Family Business, Skills and Vocational Education

Contents 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Definitions 5 Prescribed program 6 Specified legislative power

1 Name This instrument is the Industry Research and Development (Promote Mental Health for Small Business Operators Program) Instrument 2019.

2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this instrument 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 instrument The day after this instrument is registered. 12 February 2019

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument. (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority This instrument is made under section 33 of the Industry Research and Development Act 1986.

4 Definitions In this instrument: Act means the Industry Research and Development Act 1986. program means the Promote Mental Health for Small Business Operators Program.

5 Prescribed program (1) For the purposes of subsection 33(1) of the Act, the program is prescribed. (2) The purpose of the program is to improve awareness of, and practical responses to, mental health issues experienced by, or that may be experienced by, operators of Australian small businesses, including by: (a) funding promotional activities with a particular focus on: (i) reaching out to people who are closest to small business operators, such as their families and trusted advisors; and (ii) promoting new and existing mental health resources; and (iii) promoting, and raising awareness of, mental health initiatives targeted at small business operators; and (b) providing support, by a trial program, for small business operators to access evidence‑based prevention and treatment interventions aimed at reducing the onset and impact of mental ill‑health.