Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Social Services Measures No. 4) Regulations 2022

Dated 8 December 2022

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Katy Gallagher

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 (Social Services Measures No. 4) Regulations 2022.

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.

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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                   Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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  Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (cell at table item 510, column headed “Program”)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

2  Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table item 510, column headed “Objective(s)”)

Omit “participants of the Cashless Debit Card program”, substitute “recipients of social security payments in areas in which the Cashless Debit Card program or the Income Management program are or have operated (including to support Cashless Debit Card program and Income Management program participants while they transition off the programs)”.

3  Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table item 510, column headed “Objective(s)”, paragraphs (f) and (g))

Repeal the paragraphs, substitute:

(f) services that assist recipients of a social security payment to manage their payment, including improvement of their financial and digital literacy;

(g) infrastructure which facilitates recipients of a social security payment to access the internet;

(h) projects which create jobs for recipients of social security payments.

4  Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (at the end of the cell at table item 510, column headed “Objective(s)”)

Add:

; or (d) undertaken in, or in relation to, a Territory.