Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Foreign Affairs and Trade Measures No. 3) Regulations 2025 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Foreign Affairs and Trade Measures No. 3) Regulations 2025

I, the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 30 October 2025

Sam Mostyn AC

Governor‑General

By Her Excellency’s Command

Katy Gallagher

Minister for Finance

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Foreign Affairs and Trade Measures No. 3) Regulations 2025.

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.	31 October 2025

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

   Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table item 709, column headed “Objective(s)”)

After “To provide financial assistance and other forms of support to, or for the benefit of, Nauru,”, insert “including, but not limited to, support”.

1. 2

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

Insert:

747	ASEAN‑Australia Centre Grants Program	To provide funding to the ASEAN‑Australia Centre for grants to eligible recipients to develop, promote and strengthen understanding and engagement between Australia and Southeast Asia.
748	Centre for Australia‑India Relations Maitri Program	To build and maintain Australia’s relationship with India, by funding the Centre for Australia‑India Relations to provide grants to eligible recipients for: (a) projects that benefit that relationship, including artistic, cultural, sporting, scientific, academic, business and media projects; and (b) postgraduate scholarships for Indian students to study higher education degrees at Australian universities; and (c) fellowships for Australian and Indian researchers to work on Australia‑India geostrategic or geoeconomic policy issues. This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures: (a) in connection with trade and commerce with other countries, or among the States and Territories; or (b) with respect to aliens (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xix) of the Constitution); or (c) for the provision of benefits to students (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution); or (d) with respect to places, persons, matters or things external to Australia.
749	PacificAus Sports Grants Program	To strengthen relationships between Australia and the Pacific through sport by fostering elite sports pathways for Pacific athletes and sporting teams, and fostering engagement between Australian and Pacific sporting teams, athletes and stakeholders, including by funding activities that support: (a) Pacific teams and athletes’ participation in multi‑sport events, including Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games; and (b) Pacific teams and athletes’ participation in high level Australian and international sporting competitions; and (c) the presence of Australian sporting codes in the Pacific; and (d) the development of pathways for emerging Pacific athletes and officials to receive high performance coaching, training and competition. This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures: (a) with respect to places, persons, matters or things external to Australia; or (b) with respect to Australia’s relations with foreign countries; or (c) with respect to the relations of the Commonwealth with the islands of the Pacific.