Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Measures No. 1) Regulations 2025
I, the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.
Dated 30 October 2025
Sam Mostyn AC
Governor‑General
By Her Excellency’s Command
Katy Gallagher
Minister for Finance
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Schedules
Schedule 1—Amendments
This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Measures No. 1) 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.
This instrument is made under the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Act 1997.
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
1 In the appropriate position in Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table)
Insert:
738 | Rural Financial Counselling Service Program | To provide financial counselling services to eligible farmers, fishers, foresters and small related businesses experiencing, or at risk of, financial hardship. This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures: (a) in connection with 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 (c) with respect to bankruptcy or insolvency (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xvii) of the Constitution); or (d) 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 Article 7; (iii) the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa, particularly Articles 4 and 5; (iv) the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, particularly Article 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 the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth. |