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Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications 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 28 May 2020

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance

1 Name

This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications 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	The day after this instrument is registered.	3 June 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 3 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert:

Grant to QAL Finance Pty Ltd

To provide funding to QAL Finance Pty Ltd to contribute to the costs of re‑establishing border services as part of the redevelopment of the terminal at Gold Coast Airport.

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

Insert:

416

Public Interest News Gathering Program

To provide financial assistance to or for media organisations (including print, digital, radio or television) to support and encourage original, high quality public interest journalism, including such financial assistance to mitigate the adverse effects of the coronavirus known as COVID‑19 on the media sector.

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

(a) with respect to trade and commerce with other countries, or among the States and Territories; or

(b) with respect to postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution); or

(d) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under one or more of the following:

(i) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2 and 6;

(ii) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Employment Policy, particularly Articles 1 and 2;

(iii) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Vocational Guidance and Vocational Training in the Development of Human Resources, particularly Articles 1, 2, 3 and 4; or

(e) that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation; or

(f) undertaken in, or in relation to, a Territory.