Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities Measures No. 2) Regulations 2018 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities Measures No. 2) 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 (Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities Measures No. 2) 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.	12 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

   In the appropriate position in Part 3 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert:

29 Grants to the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal To provide funding to contribute to and support the achievement of the object of the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal, namely to promote for the public benefit rural and regional renewal, regeneration and development in Australia in social, economic, environmental and cultural areas. This purpose also has the effect it would have if it were limited to enabling the Foundation to provide funding: (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) to or in relation to immigrants or aliens; or (d) for the provision of unemployment, pharmaceutical, sickness and hospital benefits, medical services and benefits to students, and for matters incidental to the provision of those benefits or services; or (e) to or in relation to Indigenous Australians and particular groups of Indigenous Australians; or (f) in connection with assisting Australia to meet its obligations under international agreements, including the following: (i) the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, particularly Articles 4, 5, and 10; (ii) the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, particularly Article 4; (iii) the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, particularly Article 10; (iv) the Paris Agreement, particularly Articles 7 and 8; (v) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2, 6, 11 and 12; (vi) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Employment Policy, particularly Articles 1 and 2; (vii) the international treaties referred to in the definition of relevant international agreement in subsection 4(1) of the Water Act 2007; or (g) as financial assistance to a State or Territory; or (h) in or in relation to a Territory; or (i) 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) in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth.

1. 2

   Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table item 93, column headed “Objective(s)”)

Omit all words from and including “grants to” to and including “agriculture.”, substitute:

grants:

(a) to support, and to enable support for, drought‑affected communities, particularly to address unemployment caused by drought; and

(b) to support and enhance the viability and competitiveness of drought‑affected agriculture;

including by providing grants for local infrastructure projects.

1. 3

   Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table item 93, column headed “Objective(s)”, paragraph (g))

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

(g) in connection with assisting Australia to meet its obligations under international agreements, including the following:

(i) the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, particularly Articles 4, 5, and 10;

(ii) the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, particularly Article 4;

(iii) the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, particularly Article 10;

(iv) the Paris Agreement, particularly Articles 7 and 8;

(v) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2, 6, 11 and 12;

(vi) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Employment Policy, particularly Articles 1 and 2; or