Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Home Affairs Measures No. 1) Regulations 2021

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 18 February 2021

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Simon Birmingham

Minister for Finance

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997

1  Name

  This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Home Affairs Measures No. 1) Regulations 2021.

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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 434, column headed “Objective(s)”)

Omit all the words from and including “who are” to and including “COVID‑19.”, substitute:

who:

(a) are Australian citizens, Australian permanent residents or holders of a temporary visa who have the right to work in Australia; and

(b) are aged 17 years or over; and

(c) do not have appropriate leave entitlements; and

(d) are, or were, unable to earn income because:

(i) they are, or have been, required to remain in isolation for a period as a quarantine measure; or

(ii) they are caring for, or cared for, a person required to remain in isolation for a period as a quarantine measure;

 as a result of the coronavirus known as COVID‑19; and

(e) during that period, are, or were:

(i) in Australia; and

(ii) not otherwise receiving income support payments or certain other Commonwealth payments; and

(iii) not a person for whom an entity receives jobkeeper payment under section 14 of the Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Rules 2020.