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Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Education Measures No. 3) Regulations 2019

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), GovernorGeneral of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 17 October 2019

David Hurley

GovernorGeneral

By His Excellency’s Command

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997

1  Name

  This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Education Measures No. 3) Regulations 2019.

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.

19 October 2019

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1Amendments

   

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997

1  In the appropriate position in Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert:

 

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Research, tools and strategies to boost Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages education

To support the teaching and learning of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages in schools, including by providing funding to:

(a) conduct research into bestpractice resources and models for such teaching and learning; and

(b) develop resources and a national workforce strategy to support such teaching and learning; and

(c) develop and provide professional development courses to support such teaching and learning.

This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing funding for measures:

(a) for, or in relation to, Indigenous Australians or particular groups of Indigenous Australians; or

(b) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under either or both of the following:

(i) the Convention on the Rights of the Child, particularly Articles 4, 28 and 29;

(ii) the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, particularly Articles 2 and 27.