Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Prime Minister and Cabinet Measures No. 2) 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 08 July 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 (Prime Minister and Cabinet Measures No. 2) 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (at the end of the cell at table item 492, column headed “Objective(s)”)

Add:

In addition, to provide financial assistance to certain persons 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) were previously present in a location (the hotspot area) in Australia that was at that time, or is at a later time:

(i) subject to a State or Territory public health order restricting the movement of persons for a period of more than 7 days; and

(ii) determined by the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer to be a COVID‑19 hotspot for the purposes of Commonwealth support; and

(d) are, or were, present in another location in Australia at a time that it was subject to a State or Territory public health order (the second public health order) restricting the movement of persons for a period of more than 7 days where such persons were previously present in the hotspot area; and

(e) are, or were, restricted in their movement by the second public health order because they were previously present in the hotspot area; and

(f) are, or were, unable to earn their usual income because the restrictions imposed by the second public health order prevent, or prevented, them being able to work in their usual employment; and

(g) other than annual leave, have, or had, no available leave entitlements to cover the period of the restrictions; and

(h) declare that during the period of the restrictions they:

(i) are, or were, in an area where restrictions have been imposed on persons who were previously present in the hotspot area; and

(ii) have, or had, liquid assets of less than $10,000; and

(i) during the period of the restrictions are, or were, not otherwise receiving:

(i) Commonwealth income support payments or payments of a similar nature; or

(ii) pandemic leave disaster payments;

as a measure that is peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation.