Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Health and Aged Care Measures No. 3) Regulations 2023 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Health and Aged Care Measures No. 3) Regulations 2023

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 22 August 2023

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Katy Gallagher

Minister for Finance

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Health and Aged Care Measures No. 3) Regulations 2023.

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.	24 August 2023

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

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

Insert:

621	Smoking and Vaping Cessation	To support people to quit smoking and vaping by: (a) improving access to evidence‑based smoking and vaping cessation information and support through: (i) the development and implementation of a national consumer digital cessation hub to provide access to information, resources and support; and (ii) the redevelopment of the My Quit Buddy mobile application; and (iii) the provision of funding to State and Territory Quitline and Quit services to expand their workforce, train counsellors and enhance the use of technology to increase efficiencies; and (b) improving the capacity of the health sector and health workforce to provide evidence‑based cessation support to patients through: (i) ensuring best practice clinical guidance is available for health professionals; and (ii) providing education and training to health professionals on evidence‑based practices to support patients to quit smoking and vaping; and (c) developing and delivering anti‑smoking and anti‑vaping public health campaigns, in particular: (i) a national campaign aimed at reaching priority and at‑risk population groups; and (ii) a targeted education strategy to address vaping among young people. This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures to give effect to Australia’s obligations under the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, particularly Articles 5, 12 and 14.
622	Youth Suicide, Self‑Harm and Waitlist Management Strategy	To provide funding to headspace Newcastle to deliver suicide prevention services and mental health services, including funding to: (a) support young people who are at risk of suicide or who have attempted suicide and their families; and (b) support young people who are experiencing self‑harm; and (c) support young people who have been bereaved by suicide; and (d) implement strategies to reduce the wait times for accessing headspace Newcastle’s services; and (e) provide safety planning training to headspace Newcastle staff; and (f) increase referral pathways between acute clinical services and headspace Newcastle; and (g) provide support for staff at high schools where a young person has died by suicide; and (h) increase the staffing profile and premises of, and diversity of services delivered by, headspace Newcastle. This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures to give effect to Australia’s obligation under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2 and 12.