Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Home Affairs Measures No. 2) Regulations 2020 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Home Affairs Measures No. 2) Regulations 2020

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 06 February 2020

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Home Affairs Measures No. 2) Regulations 2020.

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.	8 February 2020

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

398	Support services for post‑traumatic stress disorder and other mental illnesses—emergency services workers involved in the 2019‑2020 bushfire season	To fund the provision of support services for post‑traumatic stress disorder and other mental illnesses to emergency services workers (including volunteers) involved in the response to bushfires in the 2019‑2020 bushfire season and their immediate families. This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to: (a) providing sickness benefits or medical services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution); or (b) providing funding for measures to give effect to Australia’s obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2 and 12; or (c) engaging in enterprises or activities which are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and which cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation.
399	Support and mental health literacy network for emergency services workers—pilot program	To fund a pilot program to provide a network of support and mental health literacy for emergency services workers (including volunteers) and their families and kinship groups. This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing: (a) sickness benefits or medical services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution); or (b) funding for measures to give effect to Australia’s obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2 and 12; or (c) funding with respect to postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution).