F2026L01074/ Made 13 August 2026/ Registered 18 August 2026/ Commences 1 July 2027/ 254 days from this record
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Name and commencement: one date for the whole instrument

The instrument is the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (Defence Delivery Agency) Rules 2026, and every provision of it starts on 1 July 2027.

BindsThe Commonwealth (the instrument itself)
Commences1 July 2027
Sourcesections 1 and 2
Record date2026-10-20

The requirement, in our words

Section 1 gives the instrument its name. Section 2 is a table: every provision starts on 1 July 2027, and column 3 repeats that date for information only. Subsection 2(2) says column 3 is not part of the instrument and may be edited in a published version. There is no staged start, no later date for one provision and no condition tied to another event. The date is printed in the text; it is not worked out from registration.

What the provision is doing

One start date gives the DDA, the Department of Defence and the portfolio a single planning date. Every consequence then begins together: the listed entity status, the accountable authority role, the officials and the purposes arrive on the same day instead of being phased in.

What good practice looks like

Quote section 2 in the briefing note and attach the commencement page of the authorised version.

What changed

Before 1 July 2027 the PGPA Rule does not contain clause 8. The DDA is not a listed entity under the Rule, the National Armaments Director is not its accountable authority for the finance law, and the listed persons are not its officials. On 1 July 2027 all of that changes at once. A team that reads only the amending instrument can miss that the amendment is the insertion of a clause into another instrument, and that the inserted clause is what continues after the amending instrument is repealed.

Evidence an auditor or portfolio reviewer asks for

CategoryRecord to keepRetention
Dated briefing noteA one-page note for the accountable authority that quotes the commencement table, names 1 July 2027 and states what applies on 30 June 2027 and on 1 July 2027.Current, with the version history.
Transition calendarA calendar that works back from 1 July 2027 to the plan, the audit committee, the delegations, the officials register and the first-day pack.Current, plus the first quarter after commencement.
Register entryThe entity register entry that records the instrument, the make date, the registration date and the commencement date.Permanent entity record.

Common gaps

  • The team plans to the registration date, 18 August 2026, instead of the commencement date.
  • The commencement table is read as a calculation and someone tries to add a period to registration.
  • The note gives 1 July 2027 as the start date but does not say what applies the day before.
  • The plan has no owner for the first-day evidence pack.

What to do before 1 July 2027

  1. Quote section 2 in the briefing note and attach the commencement page of the authorised version.
  2. Write the two-column test: what applies on 30 June 2027 and what applies on 1 July 2027.
  3. Work back from 1 July 2027 and put a date and an owner on every day-one document.
  4. Check the note again after any later compilation or amending instrument.

Dates and cross-references

Commences: 1 July 2027, stated in section 2 of F2026L01074. Retention: Not stated in the text.

Read with: authority-and-schedules, schedule-1-item-1.

Source

This page reads Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (Defence Delivery Agency) Rules 2026 (F2026L01074) and its explanatory statement, against the PGPA Act 2013 and the PGPA Rule 2014 Compilation No. 64. Retrieved 2026-10-20. The requirement above is our own statement, not the instrument wording. Not legal advice; does not certify.