This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Prime Minister and Cabinet Measures No. 8) Regulations 2021.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

507

Addressing child sexual abuse

To prevent child sexual abuse and address the effects of child sexual abuse by providing funding including for activities, assistance, infrastructure, research and services for one or more of the following:

(a) the implementation of the National Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse;

(b) the implementation of recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse;

(d) the provision of assistance or support to people and organisations who provide support for victims and survivors of child sexual abuse;

(e) the provision of assistance or support to organisations to better equip them to prevent and respond to child sexual abuse;

(f) raising awareness of, preventing, and addressing the impacts of child sexual abuse.

This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures:

(a) with respect to postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution); or

(b) for the provision of, or incidental to the provision of, medical services or sickness benefits (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution); or

(d) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under either or both of the following:

(i) the Convention on the Rights of the Child, particularly Articles 4, 19, 25, 27, 34 and 39;

(ii) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Article 12; or

(e) with respect to places, persons, matters or things external to Australia; or

(f) that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation; or

(g) done in the exercise of executive power of the Commonwealth; or

(h) involving the granting of financial assistance to a State or Territory; or

(i) undertaken in, or in relation to, a Territory.