Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (AttorneyGeneral’s Portfolio Measures No. 1) Regulation 2016

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), GovernorGeneral of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 05 May 2016

Peter Cosgrove

GovernorGeneral

By His Excellency’s Command

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance

 

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997

1  Name

  This is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Attorney-General’s Portfolio Measures No. 1) Regulation 2016.

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.

7 May 2016

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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  Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert in its appropriate position:

 

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Countering Violent Extremism

To reduce the risk of homegrown terrorism by acting domestically and internationally to strengthen Australia’s resilience to violent extremism, assist individuals to disengage from violent extremist influences, and address the impacts of violent extremism, including by:

(a) undertaking research and evaluating activities; and

(b) gathering and analysing information; and

(c) developing and disseminating information and resources; and

(d) developing and delivering training and capacity building initiatives; and

(e) developing and delivering intervention and diversion programs; and

(f) developing and providing information, assistance, advice, support and services to individuals, families, organisations and communities; and

(g) responding to and disrupting extremist propaganda and ideologies.

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

(a) providing grants of financial assistance to States and Territories; or

(b) measures for the purposes of the defence of the Commonwealth and of the States; or

(c) measures utilising, or in respect of, telegraphic, telephonic or other like services; or

(d) measures in relation to aliens and immigrants; or

(e) measures in relation to external affairs; or

(f) measures that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation, including research for the benefit of the nation; or

(g) measures undertaken in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth.