Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications Measures No. 4) Regulations 2021 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications Measures No. 4) 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 19 August 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. 4) 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.	21 August 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1—Amendments

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997

1. 1

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

Insert:

495	Provision of safety net television services	To provide funding to support the provision of television services to viewers who are unable to access or receive terrestrial television services.
496	Peri‑UrbanMobile Program	To provide funding to support the provision of improved telecommunications connectivity inurban or peri‑urban areas of Australia.
497	Culture,Heritage and Arts Regional Tourism Program	To provide financial assistance for the Australian Museums and Galleries Association Incorporatedto deliver support to community cultural, heritage and arts organisations in regional Australia, including museums, galleries and historical societies, to assist them to recover from the adverse effects of the national crisis resulting from thecoronavirus known as COVID‑19, and to foster tourism and cultural participation. This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures: (a) with respect to trade and commerce with other countries, or among the States and Territories; or (b) with respect to Indigenous Australians and particular groups of Indigenous Australians; or (c) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under either or both of 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 and 15; or (d) that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation; or (e) undertaken in, or in relation to, a Territory.