Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Education and Training Measures No. 1) Regulation 2016 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Education and Training Measures No. 1) 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 25 February 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 (Education and Training Measures No. 1) 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.	27 February 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

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Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert in its appropriate numerical position:

136	Development of vocational education and training packages	To provide funding to successful applicants to operate as Skills Service Organisations to support the development of nationally endorsed training packages to guide training and assessment in the vocational education and training sector in Australia. This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing funding for the purpose of meeting Australia’s obligations under the following: (a) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Article 6; (b) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Employment Policy, particularly Article 1; (c) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Vocational Guidance and Vocational Training in the Development of Human Resources, particularly Articles 1, 2 and 4.
137	WorldSkills Australia	To provide financial assistance to WorldSkills Australia to promote skill‑based career pathways by: (a) engaging in measures to meet Australia’s obligations under the following: (i) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; (ii) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Employment Policy; (iii) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Vocational Guidance and Vocational Training in the Development of Human Resources; and (b) promoting and conducting a national skills competition, to the extent that these activities are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation; and (c) conducting research for the purpose of informing the Commonwealth.
138	Alternative arrangements for apprenticeship delivery	To fund trial alternative arrangements for apprenticeship delivery. This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing support for activities engaged in to meet Australia’s obligations under the following: (a) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Article 6; (b) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Employment Policy, particularly Articles 1 and 2; (c) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Vocational Guidance and Vocational Training in the Development of Human Resources, particularly Articles 1, 2 and 4.