Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Social Services Measures No. 4) Regulation 2016 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Social Services Measures No. 4) 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 08 December 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. 4) 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.	14 December 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 4 of Schedule 1AB (table item 83)

Repeal the item, substitute:

83 Financial Wellbeing and Capability—Commonwealth Financial Counselling and Financial Capability—Capability Building 1. To provide funding for an entity to: (a) develop and provide online information and resources for financial counsellors, financial capability workers and consumers; and (b) provide the national 1800 financial counselling and financial capability Helpline telephone service (the Helpline), including the development of national standards and materials for the Helpline. 2. To provide funding for services to be provided by an entity directed at supporting: (a) attendance at national financial counselling and financial capability conferences by the following: (i) financial counsellors and financial capability workers for the Helpline; (ii) residents of a Territory; and (b) the presentation of sessions at national financial counselling and financial capability conferences that relate to any of the following: (i) bankruptcy or insolvency; (ii) invalid or old‑age pensions within the meaning of paragraph 51 (xxiii) of the Constitution; (iii) allowances, pensions, endowments, benefits or services to which paragraph 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution applies; (iv) immigrants or aliens; (v) the Helpline; (vi) online information or resources relevant to financial counselling or financial capability; (vii) particular issues confronting the residents of Territories. 3. To provide funding for servicesto be provided by an entity directed at supporting the presentation of sessions at national financial counselling and financial capability conferences, to the extent thatthe presentation amountsto a measure designed to meet Australia’s obligations under: (a) the Convention on the Rights of the Child; or (b) the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; or (c) the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; or (d) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. 4. To provide funding for services to be provided by an entity directed at supporting the following: (a) attendance at national financial counselling and financial capability conferences by the following: (i) Indigenous persons; (ii) persons who provide financial counselling and financial capability services predominantly to Indigenous persons; (b) the presentation of sessions at national financial counselling and financial capability conferences that relate to particular issues confronting Indigenous persons.