Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Attorney‑General’s Portfolio Measures No. 1) Regulations 2017

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

Dated 18 May 2017

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance

1 Name

This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Attorney-General’s Portfolio Measures No. 1) Regulations 2017.

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.	20 May 2017

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Insert:

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Protecting the Rights of Older Australians

To provide funding for the following:

(a) research relating to the nature and prevalence of elder abuse;

(b) a national awareness campaign about older persons’ rights and capabilities;

(c) research into the need for, and the delivery of, a national hotline to inform, assist and support people who have experienced, or who are at risk of experiencing, elder abuse;

(d) pilot training for persons (including staff in Commonwealth government agencies) who deliver services to older persons about elder abuse, its identification and appropriate responses to it;

to the extent that the provision of the funding:

(e) is within the executive power of the Commonwealth; or

(f) involves the use of postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution); or

(g) assists Australia to meet its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (in particular Articles 7, 17(1) and 26) and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (in particular Articles 8(1)(b) and 16).