Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Attorney-General’s Portfolio Measures No. 1) Regulation 2015 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Attorney‑General’s Portfolio Measures No. 1) Regulation 2015

Select Legislative Instrument No. 230, 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 10 December 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 (Attorney-General’s Portfolio Measures No. 1) 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.	16 December 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Note:This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 4 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert in its appropriate numerical position:

114 Innovative Wrap‑around Support in Domestic Violence Hotspots To support the provision of legal assistance and other forms of support to women and children experiencing, or at risk of, domestic violence by providing funding for the following: (a) the establishment of specialist domestic violence units within existing legal assistance services; (b) the establishment of health justice partnerships, involving the placement of legal assistance providers in selected health facilities, to provide services including: (i) legal assistance to women and children; and (ii) training to health professionals to identify and respond to domestic violence. This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing funding or support by engaging in measures to meet Australia’s international obligations, in particular obligations under: (a) the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (particularly Articles 2, 3, 5 and 16); or (b) the Convention on the Rights of the Child (particularly Article 19).