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Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Agriculture Measures No. 2) Regulations 2019

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 12 December 2019

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance

1 Name

This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Agriculture Measures No. 2) Regulations 2019.

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.	18 December 2019

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

380

Promoting Sustainable Fisheries and Combatting Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing in Southeast Asia and Pacific Islands

To support the provision of technical assistance at the national and regional level to Southeast Asian and Pacific Island countries to:

(a) promote sustainable fisheries; and

(b) increase the capacity of those countries to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing; and

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

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

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

(d) undertaken in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth.

381

Fisheries Habitat Restoration Program

To improve the health of fisheries and fish stocks by supporting activities to restore marine and estuarine habitats.

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

(a) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under the Convention on Biological Diversity, particularly Articles 8(d), (f) and (i); or

(b) directed at fisheries, fish stocks or habitats external to Australia; or

(d) carried out in, or in relation to, a Territory.