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Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Prime Minister and Cabinet Measures No. 11) Regulations 2021

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 16 December 2021

David Hurley

GovernorGeneral

By His Excellency’s Command

Simon Birmingham

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 (Prime Minister and Cabinet Measures No. 11) Regulations 2021.

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.

18 December 2021

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

 

528

Preparing Australian Communities Program—Projects of Local Significance

To support measures to improve the resilience of Australian communities against natural disasters, including by reducing the impact of such disasters when they occur.

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

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

(i) the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, particularly Article 10;

(ii) the Paris Agreement, particularly Articles 7 and 8;

(iii) the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, particularly Article 4; or

(b) involving the granting of financial assistance to a State or Territory; or

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

529

Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme

To establish and maintain a scheme known as the Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme to provide benefits and promote healing in relation to removals that took place in the Northern Territory prior to selfgovernment, the Australian Capital Territory prior to selfgovernment or the Jervis Bay Territory, including by funding the following activities:

(a) making payments to:

(i) recognise the harm caused by removals; and

(ii) facilitate healing;

(b) providing direct personal responses;

(c) providing legal, financial, counselling and other advisory and support services in relation to the scheme;

(d) engaging independent persons to assess applications or perform other roles under the scheme;

as a measure with respect to Indigenous Australians and particular groups of Indigenous Australians.

This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures undertaken in, or in relation to, a Territory.