Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (2015 Measures No. 8) Regulation 2015 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (2015 Measures No. 8) Regulation 2015

Select Legislative Instrument No. 149, 2015

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 20 August 2015

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance

Contents

1............ Name.................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority............................................................................................ 1

4............ Schedules............................................................................................ 1

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                            2

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997               2

1Name

This is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (2015 Measures No. 8) Regulation 2015.

2Commencement

(1)Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1.  The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.	22 August 2015

Note:This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2)Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Act 1997.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997

1  Part 3 of Schedule 1AB (at the end of the table)

Add:

8 Australian Children’s Music Foundation To fund the Australian Children’s Music Foundation to improve the equity of access to, and participation and engagement in, music education by Australian students in: (a) schools with a significant proportion of disadvantaged students; and (b) schools with a significant proportion of students who are Aboriginal persons or Torres Strait Islanders; and (c) juvenile justice centres. This purpose also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing funding: (a) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under either or both of the following: (i) the Convention on the Rights of the Child (particularly Articles 28, 29 and 31); (ii) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (particularly Articles 13 and 15); or (b) to benefit Aboriginal persons and Torres Strait Islanders; or (c) by providing benefits to students; or (d) in or in relation to a Territory.

2  Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (at the end of the table)

Add:

107 Industry Skilling Program Enhancement—Schools Pathways Programme To: (a) provide linkages, and enhance work and career pathways, for students into the Australian defence industry and address specific skills gaps in defence industry capability; and (b) expand the pool of skilled workers from which the Australian defence industry can recruit (including by supporting studies, experiences and educational endeavours in science, technology, engineering and mathematics for students). This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing support for activities: (a) to maintain Australian defence industry capability; or (b) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under either or both of the following: (i) the Convention on the Rights of the Child (particularly Articles 28 and 29); (ii) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (particularly Article 13); or (c) providing benefits to students.