Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Social Services Measures No. 1) Regulation 2016 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Social Services Measures No. 1) Regulation 2016

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 25 February 2016

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance

Contents

1Name

This is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Social Services Measures No. 1) Regulation 2016.

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.	27 February 2016

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Part 3 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert in its appropriate numerical position:

10 Grants to the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children To fund the delivery of specialist allied health and education services to children, aged 18 years or under, with hearing or vision impairment, and their families, in remote and regional locations in Australia: (a) as the provision of sickness benefits or benefits to students; or (b) using postal, telegraphic, telephonic and other like services; or (c) to meet Australia’s obligations under: (i) the Convention on the Rights of the Child; or (ii) the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; or (iii) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

2

Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert in its appropriate numerical position:

141 Young Carers Respite and Information Services Programme To assist young carers to complete their secondary education, or the vocational education equivalent, by providing: (a) students aged 18 years or under who have caring responsibilities with respite and educational support services; and (b) young carers aged 25 years or under with information, advice and referral services, including online or by telephone; to the extent that the services: (c) are the provision of benefits to students and sickness benefits; or (d) are provided using postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services.