Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications Measures No. 3) Regulations 2021 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications Measures No. 3) Regulations 2021

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 24 June 2021

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Simon Birmingham

Minister for Finance

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications Measures No. 3) Regulations 2021.

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.	25 June 2021

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

482 Regional Arts Fund To provide financial assistance to support and promote the creation of, participation in and access to Australian arts and culture in regional and remote Australia, including by providing support for: (a) professional development and employment of artists and arts workers; and (b) arts or culture projects and activities of strategic benefit to Australian arts and culture. This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures: (a) with respect to aliens (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xix) of the Constitution); or (b) with respect to Indigenous Australians and particular groups of Indigenous Australians; or (c) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under one or more international agreements, including the following: (i) the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, particularly Articles 7 and 10; (ii) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2, 6 and 15; (iii) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Employment Policy, particularly Articles 1 and 2; (iv) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Vocational Guidance and Vocational Training in the Development of Human Resources, particularly Article 1; or (d) with respect to places, persons, matters or things external to Australia; or (e) that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation; or (f) undertaken in, or in relation to, a Territory.