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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

231

National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy

To fund national collaborative research infrastructure facilities and projects to establish, maintain and operate national research infrastructure, in order to:

(a) implement the National Research Infrastructure Roadmap; and

(b) support high quality, priority research to facilitate greater discovery and innovation in the Australian research sector and the Australian economy more broadly; and

(d) support collaboration between researchers and research infrastructure facilities and projects, both nationally and internationally; and

(e) support collaboration between researchers and end users (including governments and industry) both nationally and internationally; and

(f) foster Australian innovation, economic development, national security, social wellbeing and environmental sustainability; and

(g) enable Australia to meet its reporting obligations under international agreements and to maintain international collaborative research relationships.

This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to research infrastructure funding measures:

(a) relating to interstate and overseas trade and commerce; or

(b) relating to postal, telegraphic, telephonic or other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution); or

(d) relating to astronomical and meteorological observations; or

(e) relating to quarantine; or

(f) relating to fisheries in Australian waters beyond territorial limits; or

(g) relating to the use of statistical information; or

(h) relating to the provision of pharmaceutical, sickness or hospital benefits, medical or dental services, or benefits to students, within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution; or

(i) relating to places, persons, matters or things external to Australia or matters affecting Australia’s relations with foreign countries; or

(j) for the purpose of enabling Australia to meet its research, implementation or reporting obligations under international agreements; or

(k) in, or in relation to, a Territory; or

(l) that are peculiarly adapted to the government of the nation and which cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation; or

(m) that are done in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth; or

(n) relating to a grant of financial assistance to a State.

232

Industry Specialist Mentoring for Australian Apprentices

To provide support for industry specialist mentoring services for apprentices and trainees:

(a) to improve retention and completion rates; and

(b) to support the supply of skilled workers in industries undergoing structural change.

This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing support for activities that are the provision of, or incidental to the provision of, benefits to students (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution).