Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Communications and the Arts Measures No. 2) Regulations 2019 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Communications and the Arts Measures No. 2) Regulations 2019

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 04 April 2019

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance and the Public Service

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Communications and the Arts Measures No. 2) Regulations 2019.

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.	9 April 2019

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 3 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert:

33 Grant to Free TV Australia Ltd To fund Free TV Australia Ltd to distribute Australian television content in the South Pacific region for transmission by local South Pacific broadcasters.

1. 2

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

Insert:

348 Regional Connectivity Program To provide funding: (a) for telecommunications infrastructure; and (b) for a trial of the provision of telephone services in regional and remote areas through innovative technologies; and (c) for the provision of assistance and advice relating to the use of digital technologies and applications, through the development of websites, the delivery of online resources and tools, and by a telephone service.