Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Prime Minister and Cabinet Measures No. 2) 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 27 June 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 (Prime Minister and Cabinet Measures No. 2) 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.	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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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:

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Data Integration Partnership for Australia

To provide funding for initiatives that will facilitate the analysis of data by collecting, sharing and linking data from multiple sources by electronic means, including by:

(a) creating integrated data analytical units; and

(b) creating integrated datasets; and

(c) enhancing the Data Exchange, which is a platform used by certain entities that receive government funding to report on their performance; and

(d) enhancing the Enterprise Data Warehouse, which is a platform which holds data for health and aged care programs; and

(e) implementing a National Education Evidence Base; and

(f) providing trusted third parties with access to integrated datasets; and

(g) promoting public understanding of the benefits of analysing data from multiple sources.

This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing funding for activities:

(a) involving the use of telegraphic, telephonic, or other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution); or

(b) for the collection, analysis, dissemination or use of statistics (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xi) of the Constitution); or

(c) that are incidental to the provision of invalid or old‑age pensions (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxiii) of the Constitution); or

(d) that are incidental to the provision of maternity allowances, widows’ pensions, child endowment, unemployment, pharmaceutical, sickness or hospital benefits, medical or dental services, benefits to students or family allowances (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution); or

(e) peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and that cannot otherwise be carried out for the benefit of the nation; or

(f) in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth.