Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Agriculture and Water Resources Measures No. 1) Regulations 2017 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Agriculture and Water Resources Measures No. 1) Regulations 2017

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 regulations.

Dated 09 March 2017

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Agriculture and Water Resources Measures No. 1) Regulations 2017.

2Commencement

1. (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.	15 March 2017

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.

1. (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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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. 1

   In the appropriate position in Part 2 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert:

7 Grant for a northern Australia shared biosecurity diagnostic facility To construct a shared biosecurity diagnostic facility in northern Australia.

1. 2

   In the appropriate position in Part 3 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert:

14 Grant to Grower Co‑Operative Limited To conduct studies to develop initiatives to improve efficiencies for the movement of grain along the supply chain from farms to the Port of Newcastle, for export to other countries.

1. 3

   In the appropriate position in Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert:

197 Leadership in Agricultural Industries Fund To provide grants to build the capacity of national agricultural representative organisations to engage with, and represent, their stakeholders in relation to matters of Commonwealth policy responsibility. This objective also has the effect that it would have if it were limited to providing grants: (a) in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth; or (b) as a measure that is peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried out for the benefit of the nation; or (c) incidental to the execution of the legislative powers vested in the Commonwealth; or (d) in connection with interstate or overseas trade and commerce; or (e) in connection with taxation imposed by a law of the Commonwealth; or (f) in connection with quarantine.