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Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Foreign Affairs and Trade Measures No. 1) Regulations 2024

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   14 March 2024

David Hurley

GovernorGeneral

By His Excellency’s Command

Katy Gallagher

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 (Foreign Affairs and Trade Measures No. 1) Regulations 2024.

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.

16 March 2024

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

 

651

Cyber systems in Pacific Island and Southeast Asian countries

To fund:

(a) a pilot program to scope and upgrade the cyber systems used by the governments of Pacific Island countries; and

(b) bilateral cyber exercises and training to prevent cyber incidents in Southeast Asian countries.

652

AustraliaFrance Bilateral Roadmap

To build and maintain Australia’s relationship with France by providing funding for the following activities:

(a) the AustraliaFrance Centre of Excellence for the IndoPacific, including the following:

(i) the IndoPacific Studies Program;

(ii) the Energy Transition Program;

(iii) the Pacific Social Sciences Program;

(b) research relating to Antarctica and the Southern Ocean;

(c) a FranceAustralia cultural initiative, including the following:

(i) establishing partnerships between French and Australian institutions and festivals;

(ii) establishing and expanding a network of performing arts professionals;

(iii) enhancing awareness of First Nations cultural assets in France;

(iv) advancing cooperation on film conservation and restoration.

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

(a) with respect to places, persons, matters or things external to Australia; or

(b) undertaken in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth.