Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Attorney-General’s Portfolio Measures No. 3) Regulation 2016 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Attorney‑General’s Portfolio Measures No. 3) Regulation 2016

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 08 December 2016

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance

Contents

1Name

This is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Attorney-General’s Portfolio Measures No. 3) Regulation 2016.

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.	14 December 2016

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 4 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert:

184	Emergency Management Volunteer Scholarships	To establish and administer a scholarship program supporting emergency management volunteer education, to provide benefits to students in the form of scholarships.
185	Family Relationships Services Program	To provide funding for the following: (a) family law services, including funding for: (i) family relationship centres to assist families with relationship issues; and (ii) family dispute resolution services, including in regional areas, to assist families to settle parenting and property arrangements following separation; and (iii)family counselling services to assist families with relationship issues following separation; and (iv) a family relationship advice line providing advice (including legal advice) and non‑face‑to‑face dispute resolution services over the telephone and online; and (v) services to assist separating families in high conflict over parenting arrangements; and (vi) services to assist children from separating families to deal with issues arising from their parents’ separation; and (vii) children’s contact services to assist children of separated parents to establish and maintain relationships with the parent, and other family members, with whom the child does not reside; (b) the Family Law Pathways Networks to improve collaboration and coordination between organisations and professionals working with separating and separated families in the family law system to help those families obtain appropriate services; (c) Family Law System Projects to enhance the family law system’s capacity to respond to the needs of separating and separated families. This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing funding: (a) in connection with telephonic or electronic communications; or (b) in relation to marriage; or (c) in relation to divorce, including in relation to parental rights or the custody or guardianship of infants; or (d) to meet Australia’s obligations under the following: (i) the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, particularly Article 23; (ii) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 10 and 12; or (e) to meet Australia’s obligations in relation to children, including those under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, particularly Articles 9, 12, 18, 19, 24 and 27; or (f) to meet Australia’s obligations in relation to women, in particular those under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; or (g) in relation to matters referred to the Parliament of the Commonwealth by the Parliament or Parliaments of any State or States; or (h) in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth; or (i) in, or in relation to, a Territory.