Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Social Services Measures No. 1) Regulation 2015 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Social Services Measures No. 1) Regulation 2015

Select Legislative Instrument No. 233, 2015

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 10 December 2015

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance

Contents

1............ Name.................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority............................................................................................ 1

4............ Schedules............................................................................................ 1

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                            2

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997               2

1Name

This is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Social Services Measures No. 1) Regulation 2015.

2Commencement

(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.	16 December 2015

Note:This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.

(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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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  Part 2 of Schedule 1AB (at the end of the table)

Add:

5 Women’s Safety Technology Trials To provide grants of financial assistance to a State or Territory for the development and delivery of trials that test ways of using technology to improve the safety of women experiencing, or at risk of, violence.

2  Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert in its appropriate numerical position:

118	Safe Technology for Women	To enable women experiencing, or at risk of, domestic or family violence to keep safe by providing access to new smart phones and safe technology information, as a measure: (a) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (particularly Articles 2, 5 and 16); or (b) involving electronic communications; or (c) involving the granting of financial assistance to a State or Territory; or (d) providing services in a Territory.
119	Keeping Women Safe in Their Homes	To provide assistance to enable States, Territories, organisations and other entities to conduct risk assessments and improve or upgrade the security of the homes of women experiencing, or at risk of, domestic or family violence, as measures: (a) involving the granting of financial assistance to a State or Territory; or (b) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under: (i) the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (particularly Articles 2, 5 and 16); or (ii) the Convention on the Rights of the Child (particularly Articles 3 and 19); or (c) providing services in a Territory; or (d) involving electronic communications.
120	Funding for MensLine Australia	To deliver support, resources and counselling for men with family and relationship concerns (including via telephone, videoconferencing and other online media), as measures: (a) involving electronic communications; or (b) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
121	Better Responses from Frontline Staff	To deliver training to enable frontline personnel (including police, medical personnel, and social and community workers) to provide better responses to women experiencing, or at risk of, domestic or family violence, as a measure: (a) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (particularly Articles 2, 3, 5 and 16); or (b) providing services in a Territory.
122	Local Support Coordinators	To fund local support coordinators to coordinate support (including housing, safety and budgeting services) for women experiencing, or at risk of, domestic or family violence, as a measure: (a) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (particularly Article 3); or (b) involving the granting of financial assistance to a State or Territory; or (c) providing services in a Territory.