Linda Reynolds (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

Again, just to be very clear, this doesn't change the processes. When we enter into an FTA there are two bills plus a regulation that comes through this place. So, that's regulation at that time, which, like all regs, is disallowable. But what this does for the other nine FTAs is that when, every five years, they are updated, if it's minor then we don't need go through the reg changes. But if it's major, it goes to JSCOT. They consider it and make recommendations for the bill itself. So, every five years, for these six, we still have to then update the regs. But they have never been challenged, because they are very technical. So, for nine FTAs, we don't have to do that technical regulatory updating. Again, nothing has changed from how we do those other nine. There is still that original reg—which of course is disallowable—but we don't have to update all of them every five years.