Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Home Affairs Measures No. 3) Regulations 2018 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Home Affairs Measures No. 3) 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 11 October 2018

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance and the Public Service

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Home Affairs Measures No. 3) 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.	13 October 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

   Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table item 274, column headed “Objective(s)”)

Omit “practicing”, substitute “practising”.

1. 2

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

Insert:

309 National Aerial Firefighting Program To fund a national firefighting body to provide, in association with the States and Territories, the national aerial firefighting program, including: (a) to procure, maintain and coordinate a fleet of specialised firefighting aircraft, to be used by the States and Territories in combating bushfires across Australia; and (b) to fund costs directly or indirectly associated with procuring, maintaining or coordinating those aircraft; and (c) to develop national protocols and systems for aerial firefighting. This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures: (a) that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and that cannot otherwise be carried out for the benefit of the nation; or (b) taken in, or in relation to, a Territory.