This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Home Affairs Measures No. 4) Regulations 2025.

(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.	31 October 2025

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 2 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert:

Payments for activities that counter illicit tobacco

To provide grants of financial assistance to a State or Territory for State or Territory law enforcement agencies to undertake activities to counter illicit tobacco.

2 In the appropriate position in Part 3 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert:

Grant to Charles Darwin University

To provide funding to Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory to operate the North Australia and Rangelands Fire Information web service, which provides data, maps and other resources to manage bushfires in rural and remote parts of Australia.

3 Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table item 513, column headed “Program”)

Omit “Pilot”, substitute “Program”.

4 Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table item 513, column headed “Objective(s)”)

Omit “fund providers to implement a pilot which tests whether Australia can”, substitute “provide funding to community organisations to provide refugee integration and settlement services to”.

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

Insert:

750

Humanitarian Integration and Settlement Program

To fund onshore and offshore services and activities with respect to humanitarian entrants who are aliens (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xix) of the Constitution), to assist them to settle in Australia, including through the provision of:

(a) pre‑arrival assessment and services; and

(b) on‑arrival services; and

(d) assistance with essential registrations; and

(e) intensive settlement services; and

(f) orientation to living in Australia and local services; and

(g) employment, education, health and English language support.

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

(a) with respect to immigrants; or

(b) with respect to places, persons, matters or things external to Australia.

751

Strengthening Community Safety

To support community crime prevention projects undertaken by local government bodies, as a measure to give effect to Australia’s obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, particularly Articles 2 and 9.