This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Attorney-General’s Portfolio Measures No. 3) Regulations 2018.

(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.	18 August 2018

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table item 87)

Repeal the item, substitute:

Justice Services—Community Legal Services Program

To provide funding to organisations to:

(a) provide legal assistance services (including legal advice and legal representation):

(i) to persons in relation to matters in the federal jurisdiction or in relation to Commonwealth laws; or

(ii) specifically targeted to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; or

(iii) to persons in a Territory; or

(b) provide legal assistance services through the use of telephone and online communication services; or

(d) collect data, conduct research, and provide advice for the purpose of informing the Commonwealth in relation to legal services; or

(e) evaluate or improve the matters referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) above.

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

(a) incidental to the legislative powers vested in the Commonwealth; or

(b) done in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth; or

(d) with respect to statistics; or

(e) with respect to the people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws; or

(f) with respect to a Territory.

2 In the appropriate position in Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert:

294

Elder Abuse Service Trials

To fund trials of the following specialist services to prevent, identify and respond to elder abuse:

(a) specialist elder abuse units comprising lawyers and social workers who provide services tailored to individuals’ needs (which may include legal advice, counselling, or referral and support to access other services);

(b) health justice partnerships, which would assist older persons in the health care system, identified by health care workers or social workers as being at risk or potentially subjected to elder abuse, to access specialised legal support services;

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

(a) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under either or both of the following:

(i) the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, particularly Articles 4, 8 and 16;

(ii) the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, particularly Articles 2, 7, 17 and 26; or

(b) for services that are specifically targeted to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; or