Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Infrastructure and Regional Development Measures No. 2) Regulation 2016 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Infrastructure and Regional Development Measures No. 2) Regulation 2016

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 regulation.

Dated 08 December 2016

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance

Contents

1Name

This is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Infrastructure and Regional Development Measures No. 2) Regulation 2016.

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.	14 December 2016

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

191 Building Better Regions Fund To support regional and remote communities by providing grants for infrastructure and community investment projects which create jobs and encourage economic growth in such communities. This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing grants: (a) in connection with trade and commerce with other countries, or among the States and Territories; or (b) in connection with electronic communications; or (c) in relation to aliens or immigrants; or (d) to provide medical services, unemployment, pharmaceutical, sickness and hospital benefits, benefits to students, and measures incidental to the provision of those services or benefits; or (e) to, or in relation to, Indigenous Australians and particular groups of Indigenous Australians; or (f) to meet its obligations under international agreements, including under: (i) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Article 6; or (ii) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Employment Policy; or (g) for the construction or extension of railways in any State with the consent of that State; or (h) in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth; or (i) to provide for measures that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation; or (j) as financial assistance to a State or Territory; or (k) in, or in relation to, a Territory.