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

Thank you for that question. There are two parts to my answer. The first is that my advice is that these regulations have never been disallowed in this chamber, which I understand is why those opposite and the governments two years ago agreed that this was an administrative process. But in terms of the parliament's ability to scrutinise future changes to FTAs, does this make any change? No, it does not. The bill removes the need to replicate technical changes to the PSR schedule of an FTA in a separate regulation establishing the rules of origin for that FTA—that is, the step that creates a disallowable instrument would no longer occur. JSCOT will continue to provide parliamentary scrutiny of future technical changes to the PSR of a relevant FTA through its standard treaty review processes.