This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Veterans’ Affairs Measures No. 3) Regulations 2017.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

237

Prime Minister’s Veterans’ Employment Program

To fund activities under the Prime Minister’s Veterans’ Employment Program, including:

(a) managing the Prime Minister’s Veterans’ Employment Annual Awards, including an annual event to confer the Awards; and

(b) establishing and supporting an Industry Advisory Committee responsible for developing practical measures to provide greater employment opportunities for veterans; and

(c) establishing an ex‑service organisation industry partnership register to facilitate employment initiatives for veterans.

These objectives also have the effect they would have if they were limited to the following:

(a) activities using electronic communications;

(b) commemorating Australians killed or injured in war;

(i) veterans;

(ii) defence force members;

(iii) the families of veterans and defence force members;

(iv) the communities of veterans and defence force members.

238

Grants to commemorate the end of the First World War

To fund grants to local communities and cultural institutions to:

(a) commemorate the end of the First World War; and

(b) remember Australian servicemen and servicewomen from all conflicts; and

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

(a) commemorating Australians killed or injured in war;

(b) supporting any or all of the following:

(i) veterans;

(ii) defence force members;

(iii) the families of veterans and defence force members;

(iv) the communities of veterans and defence force members;

(c) engaging in measures that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of a nation.

239

Travel to Century of Service Domestic Commemorations

To enable veterans to travel to and from events commemorating conflicts in which they have served.

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

(a) commemorating Australians killed or injured in war;

(b) supporting any or all of the following:

(i) veterans;

(ii) defence force members;

(iii) the families of veterans and defence force members;

(iv) the communities of veterans and defence force members;

(c) engaging in measures that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of a nation.