Financial Management and Accountability Amendment Regulation 2013 (No. 3) (Cth)

Financial Management and Accountability Amendment Regulation 2013 (No. 3)

Select Legislative Instrument No. 70, 2013

I, Quentin Bryce AC CVO, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation under the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997.

Dated              16 May 2013

Quentin Bryce

Governor‑General

By Her Excellency’s Command

Penelope Ying Yen Wong

Minister for Finance and Deregulation

Contents

1............ Name of regulation............................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority............................................................................................ 1

4............ Schedule(s)......................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                            2

Financial Management and Accountability Regulations 1997                      2

1Name of regulation

This regulation is the Financial Management and Accountability Amendment Regulation 2013 (No. 3).

2Commencement

This regulation commences on the day it is registered.

3Authority

This regulation is made under the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997.

4Schedule(s)

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 Management and Accountability Regulations 1997

1  After item 421.002 of Schedule 1AA

Insert:

421.002A

Referendum on financial recognition of local government

Objectives:

(a) to provide for a national civics education campaign in relation to a proposed referendum, subject to subsection 11(4) of the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984; and

(b) to provide for the implementation of a communications campaign by non‑government bodies and persons who are supportive of, against, or neutral towards, that proposed referendum, subject to subsection 11(4) of the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984