Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Social Services Measures No. 3) Regulations 2024 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Social Services Measures No. 3) Regulations 2024

I, the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 24 October 2024

Sam Mostyn AC

Governor‑General

By Her Excellency’s Command

Katy Gallagher

Minister for Finance

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Social Services Measures No. 3) Regulations 2024.

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.	29 October 2024

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table item 550)

Repeal the item, substitute:

550 Community‑led Economic Development To support employment in areas in which the Cashless Debit Card program and the Income Management program are or have operated by funding infrastructure projects and capital investments that do one or more of the following in those areas: (a) create jobs and training opportunities; (b) support community economic development; (c) build community capacity. This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures: (a) with respect to Indigenous Australians and particular groups of Indigenous Australians; or (b) undertaken in, or in relation to, a Territory.

1. 2

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

Insert:

693 Leaving Violence Program To provide financial and other support to victims of intimate partner violence to: (a) help victims to leave violent relationships; and (b) help victims who have left violent relationships to stabilise their lives; as a measure to give effect to Australia’s obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, particularly Articles 2, 7, 9 and 17. This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures with respect to bankruptcy or insolvency (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xvii) of the Constitution).