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[ • ]Government bill · 2022 · Enacted

Overseas Investment (Forestry) Amendment Bill

Where it is in Parliament· last movement 2022-08-01

Introduction
First Reading
Select Committee
Second Reading
Committee of Whole House
Third Reading
Royal Assent
Enacted
What the official record says
This Act is the Overseas Investment (Forestry) Amendment Act . This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent. This Act amends the Overseas Investment Act 2005. In section 16A(1AA), table,— item relating to the modified benefit test if land is or includes farm land, second column, after , insert : repeal the item relating to the modified benefit test for forestry activities. In section 16A(1B), delete . Replace section 16A(2) and (3) and the cross-heading above section 16A(2) with: Subsection (1C) does not apply if the relevant Ministers are satisfied— that, as a result of the overseas investment, the farm land will, or is likely to, be used exclusively, or nearly exclusively, for forestry activities; and that, whenever a crop of trees is harveste

Laws this bill changes

  • Overseas Investment Act 2005
Plain English breakdown

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