Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Home Affairs Measures No. 4) Regulations 2020
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 06 August 2020
David Hurley
Governor‑General
By His Excellency’s Command
Mathias Cormann
Contents
1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1
3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1
4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1
Schedule 1—Amendments 2
Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997 2
1 Name
This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Home Affairs Measures No. 4) Regulations 2020.
2 Commencement
(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. | 12.32 pm (A.C.T.) 6 August 2020 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.
(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.
3 Authority
This instrument is made under the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Act 1997.
4 Schedules
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 In the appropriate position in Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table)
Insert:
| 434 | Coronavirus economic response—pandemic leave disaster payments | To provide financial assistance to persons who are unable to earn income because: (a) they are required to remain in isolation as a quarantine measure; or (b) they are caring for a person who is required to remain in isolation as a quarantine measure; as a result of the coronavirus known as COVID‑19. This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures: (a) with respect to aliens (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xix) of the Constitution); or (b) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2 and 12; 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. |