1Short titleThis regulation may be cited as the Rural and Regional Adjustment (Variation of Special Disaster Assistance Recovery Grants Scheme) Amendment Regulation 2022.2Regulation amendedThis regulation amends the Rural and Regional Adjustment Regulation 2011.3Insertion of new pt 4, div 19Part 4—insert—Division 19Transitional provision for Rural and Regional Adjustment (Variation of Special Disaster Assistance Recovery Grants Scheme) Amendment Regulation 202229Existing applications for assistance(1)This section applies if, before the commencement, an application for assistance under the scheme set out in schedule 23 was made but not decided.(2)Schedule 23, section 8, as amended by the Rural and Regional Adjustment (Variation of Special Disaster Assistance Recovery Grants Scheme) Amendment Regulation 2022, applies to the application.(3)However, schedule 23, section 3, definition primary producer, as in force immediately before the commencement, continues to apply for deciding the application as if the Rural and Regional Adjustment (Variation of Special Disaster Assistance Recovery Grants Scheme) Amendment Regulation 2022 had not commenced.4Amendment of sch 23, s 3 (Definitions for sch 23)(1)Schedule 23, section 3, heading, ‘sch 23’—omit, insert—schedule(2)Schedule 23, section 3, definition primary producer, paragraphs (a) and (b), ‘will eventually’—omit, insert—will, within a reasonable time,5Amendment of sch 23, s 8 (Assistance under standard or exceptional circumstances grant generally)(1)Schedule 23, section 8(2)(b), ‘purchasing,’—omit.(2)Schedule 23, section 8(2)—insert—

(ba)purchasing equipment or materials to clean a property, premises or equipment, if the authority is satisfied—

(i)the equipment is, or the materials are, not ordinarily available for hire or lease; orExamples of items not ordinarily available for hire or lease—cleaning chemicals, gloves, masks, brooms, mops, shovels or buckets

(ii)if subparagraph (i) does not apply—

(A)the equipment is, or the materials are, reasonably necessary for cleaning the property, premises or equipment; and

(B)the equipment is, or the materials are, not readily available for hire or lease at a cost that is equal to or less than the cost of purchasing the equipment or materials;