Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Jobs and Small Business Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Jobs and Small Business Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019

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 21 February 2019

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 (Jobs and Small Business Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019.

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.	23 February 2019

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

329 Career Revive Initiative for Regional Women—supporting women to continue their careers after caring‑related breaks To facilitate women in regional areas to transition back into the workforce following a caring‑related break, by: (a) providing assistance to specific employers in regional areas to identify barriers in their workplaces to women returning to the workforce and to develop employer action plans to address those barriers; and (b) funding the development of publicly available resources to guide other employers to take the actions referred to in paragraph (a); and (c) engaging an employer peak body or business chamber to promote the Career Revive Initiative and encourage employers to take steps to assist women to return to work, including those steps identified in the publicly available resources referred to in paragraph (b). This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures: (a) with respect to postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services; or (b) to meet Australia’s obligations under one or more of the following: (i) the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, particularly Articles 1, 2, 3, 11 and 14; (ii) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Employment Policy, particularly Articles 1 and 2; (iii) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2 and 6.