Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Attorney-General’s Portfolio Measures No. 2) Regulations 2022 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Attorney‑General’s Portfolio Measures No. 2) Regulations 2022

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 8 December 2022

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Katy Gallagher

Minister for Finance

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Attorney‑General’s Portfolio Measures No. 2) Regulations 2022.

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.	10 December 2022

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1Amendments

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997

1. 1

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

Insert:

565	Justice Services—education and training for the justice sector on family, domestic and sexual violence	To support the education and training of persons involved in the enforcement and administration of the law (including legal practitioners, judicial officers, court administrators and law enforcement officers) about family, domestic and sexual violence, including by funding any of the following: (a) training on how to identify and support victims of family violence (including victims of coercive control); (b) training for law enforcement officers on how to identify and respond appropriately to family, domestic and sexual violence; (c) training for judicial officers to be delivered by the National Judicial College of Australia; (d) maintaining the National Domestic and Family Violence Bench Book by the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration; (e) education, training or information on the nature and impacts of family, domestic and sexual violence. This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures: (a) with respect to postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution); or (b) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under either or both of the following: (i) the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, particularly Articles 2, 3, 5 and 16; (ii) the Convention on the Rights of the Child, particularly Articles 19; or (c) that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation; or (d) incidental to the execution of any power vested by the Constitution in the Federal Judicature.
566	Justice Services—justice reinvestment	To reduce the incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people by funding justice reinvestment, including by funding any of the following: (a) assistance to communities to develop or implement justice reinvestment strategies and programs; (b) services that will reduce or prevent the possibility of incarceration (such as counselling, recreation, housing and other support services); (c) criminal diversion and post‑release support programs; (d) activities to build the capacity of entities to provide justice reinvestment such as: (i) providing advice on governance and strategy; and (ii) providing data collection and analysis; and (iii) purchasing assets and infrastructure to be used in justice reinvestment activities; and (iv) providing information technology support.