Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Education and Training Measures No. 2) Regulations 2018 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Education and Training Measures No. 2) Regulations 2018

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 21 June 2018

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Education and Training Measures No. 2) Regulations 2018.

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.	23 June 2018

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

277	Skills Checkpoint for Older Workers Program	To provide funding for career guidance and training for older workers to help them remain in the workforce. This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures to meet Australia’s obligations under: (a) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2 and 6; or (b) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Employment Policy, particularly Articles 1 and 2; or (c) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Vocational Guidance and Vocational Training in the Development of Human Resources, particularly Articles 1, 2, 3 and 4.
278	High Achieving Teachers Program	To fund providers to deliver alternative pathways into teaching, to address teacher shortages and increase the quality of teaching, including by: (a) recruiting and selecting high achieving individuals to be trained as teachers; and (b) partnering with education authorities to place program participants in secondary schools with identified needs; and (c) providing training and support to program participants. This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures to meet Australia’s obligations under: (a) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2 and 13; or (b) the Convention on the Rights of the Child, particularly Articles 4, 28 and 29.
279	National Disability Coordination Officer Program	To assist people with disability to access, and participate in, tertiary education and employment, and to facilitate transitions between education, training and employment for people with disability. This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures to meet Australia’s obligations under: (a) the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, particularly Articles 4, 24 and 27; or (b) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons), particularly Articles 7 and 9; or (c) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2, 6, 7 and 13.
280	Higher Education Admissions Information Platform	To fund the development, maintenance and ongoing operation of a website which will: (a) provide information about higher education admissions policies and processes; and (b) enable comparison of higher education courses; and (c) enable a centralised national application process for tertiary admissions.