Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Social Services Measures No. 2) Regulations 2021 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Social Services Measures No. 2) 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 24 June 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 (Social Services Measures No. 2) 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	Immediately after this instrument is registered.	3.14 pm (A.C.T.) 24 June 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1Amendments

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997

1. 1

   Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (cell at table item 236, column headed “Objective(s)”)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

To facilitate an adequate and appropriate supply of disability, aged care and veterans’ care service providers, including for the purposes of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the Aged Care Act 1997 and the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986, by:

(a) funding regional coordinators to provide assistance to existing and potential new disability, aged care and veterans’ care service providers; and

(b) funding specialist coordinators to monitor disability, aged care and veterans’ care service provision and to identify issues that may affect the adequate supply of such services; and

(c) assisting disability service providers to prepare to provide services under the National Disability Insurance Scheme, by making grants to them and providing them with access to services provided by third parties that are relevant to the preparation of those providers.

This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures:

(a) to support veterans and defence force members and their families; or

(b) for the provision of, or incidental to the provision of, unemployment, sickness or hospital benefits or medical services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution); or

(c) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under either or both of the following:

(i) the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, particularly Articles 4, 19, 20, 25, 26 and 27;

(ii) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2 and 12.

1. 2

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

Insert:

484	Volunteer Management Activity	To provide funding to: (a) develop, establish and maintain an online platform to: (i) provide information and digital resources to volunteer support services, volunteer involving organisations and volunteers, including in relation to training, reporting and capacity building; and (ii) facilitate communication, collaboration and sharing of information and digital resources between volunteer support services and volunteer involving organisations; and (b) volunteer organisations to: (i) deliver support and training over the internet to volunteer support services, volunteer involving organisations and volunteers; and (ii) provide support and training to volunteer involving organisations to access and use the online platform referred to in paragraph (a); and (iii) increase access to volunteering opportunities, and remove barriers to volunteering, for identified priority groups; and (iv) facilitate employment pathways for identified priority groups. 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) with respect to aliens (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xix) of the Constitution); or (c) with respect to Indigenous Australians and particular groups of Indigenous Australians; or (d) with respect to immigrants; or (e) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under one or more of the following: (i) the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, particularly Article 3; (ii) the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, particularly Articles 4 and 19; (iii) the Convention on the Rights of the Child, particularly Articles 4 and 6; (iv) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2 and 6; or (f) undertaken in, or in relation to, a Territory.
485	Stronger Places, Stronger People	To improve outcomes for children in disadvantaged communities through: (a) supporting families, and assisting communities to support families, to prepare for parenthood and caregiving responsibilities and further the development of the children in their care; and (b) discouraging use of harmful substances such as tobacco, alcohol and drugs amongst prospective parents; and (c) encouraging young people to seek employment; and (d) preparing young people for employment; and (e) ensuring women have access to appropriate pre‑natal and post‑natal services; and (f) undertaking measures to help children to live safely and outside the youth justice system; by providing funding to: (g)design and implement a national model; and (h) enable communities to develop, implement and evaluate strategies to achieve the outcomes of the program, including by establishing local project teams to support communities to do this; and (i) develop tools and resources that can be tailored to, and used by,communities; to give effect to Australia’s obligations under one or more of the following: (j) the Convention on Psychotropic Substances, particularly Article 20; (k) the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, particularly Articles 2 and 12; (l) the Convention on the Rights of the Child, particularly Articles 3, 4, 6, 18, 19, 24, 27, 28, 29 and 31; (m) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2, 6 and 12; (n) the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 (as amended), particularly Articles 4 and 38; (o) the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, particularly Article 14; (p) the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, particularly Articles 5, 12 and 14.