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Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Education, Skills and Employment Measures No. 8) Regulations 2020

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 10 December 2020

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Simon Birmingham

Minister for Finance

1 Name

This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Education, Skills and Employment Measures No. 8) Regulations 2020.

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.	12 December 2020

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

459

National Microcredentials Marketplace

To establish and operate a website to provide information about microcredentials.

460

Tertiary Access Payment for Outer Regional and Remote School Leavers

To encourage and assist students from outer regional and remote areas of Australia to access tertiary study by providing, as benefits to students within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution, one‑off payments to eligible students who relocate to commence tertiary study in the year immediately following their completion of the final year of secondary school.

461

Pacific Labour Mobility: Safeguarding Welfare of Workers (Community Connections)

To support the welfare of persons (the participants) who are:

(a) aliens (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xix) of the Constitution) or immigrants; and

(b) participating in the Seasonal Worker Program or Pacific Labour Scheme;

by fostering the participants’ inclusion in their local Australian communities, including by funding organisations to:

(d) provide ongoing support to the participants.