Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Veterans’ Affairs Measures No. 1) Regulations 2023
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 16 March 2023
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 (Veterans’ Affairs Measures No. 1) Regulations 2023.
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 | The day after this instrument is registered. | 21 March 2023 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (table item 361)
Repeal the item, substitute:
| 361 | Additional Employment Support for Veterans | To fund measures to help veterans and other former defence force members find employment, including measures to: (a) fund organisations to provide support (including counselling, vocational education and case management) to veterans and former deference force members and their families; and (b) support employers to hire veterans and former defence force members; and (c) encourage and promote the benefits of employing veterans and former defence force members. This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures: (a) supporting any or all of the following: (i) veterans; (ii) defence force members; (iii) the families of veterans and defence force members; (iv) the communities of veterans and defence force members; or (b) providing, or incidental to the provision of, unemployment benefits (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution; or (c) undertaken in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth. |
2 In the appropriate position in Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table)
Insert:
| 596 | Grants‑in‑Aid | To provide funding to national ex‑service organisations to support veterans and their families. |