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Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Health Measures No. 3) 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 24 June 2021

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 (Health Measures No. 3) 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.

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.	29 June 2021

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

481

Home Care Workforce Support Program

To support the aged care workforce, with a focus on home care, and to increase the skills of that workforce by providing funding to organisations and consortia to undertake activities, including the following:

(a) selecting and supporting suitable jobseekers to obtain employment providing home care services to older Australians;

(b) supporting new entrants to the home care sector to develop the skills, and to undertake the training, needed to provide home care services to older Australians;

(c) working with home care providers, employment services and registered training organisations to enhance the leadership capabilities of the existing aged care workforce to ensure new entrants to that workforce are adequately supported;

(d) providing additional targeted support to aged care providers, including residential care providers, in rural and remote areas where there are identified workforce shortages;

to give effect to Australia’s obligations under one or more of the following:

(e) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2 and 6;

(f) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Employment Policy, particularly Articles 1 and 2;

(g) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Vocational Guidance and Vocational Training in the Development of Human Resources, particularly Articles 1 to 4.

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