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DISASTER READY FUND ACT 2019 - SECT 24

Constitutional limits

    The Emergency Management Minister may exercise a power conferred on the Emergency Management Minister by section   20 or 21 only:

  (a)   with respect to the implied power of the Parliament to make laws with respect to nationhood; or

  (b)   with respect to the granting of financial assistance to a State or Territory; or

  (c)   with respect to a Territory; or

  (d)   with respect to implementing any of Australia's international obligations under the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; or

  (e)   with respect to the granting of financial assistance to a constitutional corporation for the purposes of carrying out the corporation's activities; or

  (f)   with respect to a Commonwealth place (within the meaning of the Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1970 ); or

  (g)   with respect to trade and commerce:

  (i)   between Australia and places outside Australia; or

  (ii)   among the States; or

  (iii)   within a Territory, between a State and a Territory or between 2 Territories; or

  (h)   with respect to the use of a postal, telegraphic, telephonic or other like service within the meaning of paragraph   51(v) of the Constitution; or

  (i)   with respect to research relating to the development of patents of inventions; or

  (j)   with respect to statistics; or

  (k)   with respect to meteorological observations; or

  (l)   with respect to insurance to which paragraph   51(xiv) of the Constitution applies; or

  (m)   with respect to matters incidental to the execution of any of the legislative powers of the Parliament or the executive power of the Commonwealth.



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