Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts Measures No. 3) 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 11 December 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
Part 1—Amendments
Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997
Part 2—Transitional provisions
Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997
This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts Measures No. 3) 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. | 16 December 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 Part 3 of Schedule 1AB (table item 63)
Repeal the item.
2 In the appropriate position in Part 3 of Schedule 1AB (table)
Insert:
105 | To provide funding to the Hellenic Museum to support and enhance Australia’s relationship with Greece and enable Australian audiences to engage with diverse cultural and education experiences by: (a) hosting the Rituals: Gifts for the Gods exhibition; and (b) upgrading the museum’s infrastructure used to support its public programming for the exhibition. |
3 In the appropriate position in Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table)
Insert:
763 | Online Safety Education: Digital and Media Literacy for Younger Australians | To provide funding to non‑government organisations for online safety education activities that develop the digital and media literacy of younger Australians, by helping them to critically analyse and engage with online content, as a measure with respect to postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution). This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures to give effect to Australia’s obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, particularly Articles 4 and 19. |
4 In the appropriate position in Part 3
Insert:
Despite the repeal of table item 63 of Part 3 of Schedule 1AB by Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts Measures No. 3) Regulations 2025, that item continues in force for the purposes of sections 32B and 32C of the Act in relation to the administration or variation of grants made before the repeal, but not so as to authorise any new commitment by the Commonwealth to spend money.