1Short titleThis regulation may be cited as the Rural and Regional Adjustment (Variation of Tourism and Hospitality Sector Hardship Grants Scheme) Amendment Regulation 2022.2Regulation amendedThis regulation amends the Rural and Regional Adjustment Regulation 2011.3Insertion of new pt 4, div 15Part 4—insert—Division 15Validation provision for Rural and Regional Adjustment (Variation of Tourism and Hospitality Sector Hardship Grants Scheme) Amendment Regulation 202222Validation of particular sch 38 applications received by authority(1)This section applies if—

(a)before the commencement, an entity (the applicant) made an application for a part 2 first payment (the part 2 first payment application); and

(b)before the commencement, either—

(i)the authority decided to approve the part 2 first payment application; or

(ii)the chief executive officer, in a review decision of an original decision in relation to the part 2 first payment application, decided to approve the application; and

(c)the applicant purportedly made an application for a part 2 second payment (the part 2 second payment application) that was received by the authority no later than 6p.m. on 6 December 2021; and

(d)a part 2 first payment had not been made to the applicant before the applicant purportedly made the part 2 second payment application.

(2)Despite schedule 38, section 20(3), the part 2 second payment application is, and is taken to have always been, as valid as it would have been if a part 2 first payment had been made to the applicant before the applicant purportedly made the part 2 second payment application.(3)Terms defined in schedule 38 and used in this section have the same meanings as they have in schedule 38.4Amendment of sch 38, s 20 (Requirements for applications)(1)Schedule 38, section 20(1)(c), ‘be’—omit.(2)Schedule 38, section 20(1)(d), from ‘part 2’ to ‘be’—omit, insert—part 3 second payment—(3)Schedule 38, section 20(1)—insert—

(e)for a part 2 second payment—received by the authority—

(i)between 11 October 2021 and 6p.m. on 6 December 2021; or

(ii)between 11 April 2022 and 11:59p.m. on 9 May 2022.