Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Social Services Measures No. 1) Regulations 2023 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Social Services Measures No. 1) Regulations 2023

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 16 March 2023

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Katy Gallagher

Minister for Finance

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Social Services Measures No. 1) Regulations 2023.

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.	17 March 2023

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

598 Forced Adoption Support Services—Commemoration and Capacity‑Building To provide funding for: (a) national and local activities to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the National Apology for Forced Adoptions; and (b) the development and publication of online resources to complement those activities, and to serve as a commemorative and educational resource; and (c) the development and publication of online training modules to help providers of support services and aged care to address the needs of people affected by past forced adoption practices. This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures: (a) with respect to postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution); or (b) for the provision of, or incidental to the provision of, sickness benefits or medical services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution); or (c) that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation; or (d) undertaken in, or in relation to, a Territory.