Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission) Rules 2022

I, Katy Gallagher, Minister for Finance, make the following rules.

Dated 19 October 2022

Katy Gallagher

Minister for Finance

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014

1  Name

  This instrument is the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission) Rules 2022.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014

1  After clause 10 of Schedule 1

Insert:

10AA  Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission

  For the purposes of the finance law:

 (a) the following group of persons is a listed entity:

 (i) the person occupying, or performing the duties of, the office known as the Commissioner of the Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission;

 (ii) persons engaged under the Public Service Act 1999 to assist in the performance of the functions of the Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission; and

 (b) the listed entity is to be known as the Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission; and

 (c) the Commissioner of the Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission is the accountable authority of the listed entity; and

 (d) the persons referred to in paragraph (a) are officials of the listed entity; and

 (e) the purposes of the listed entity include the following:

 (i) to provide strategic policy advice to the responsible Minister;

 (ii) to promote and enhance coordination across Commonwealth, State and Territory governments, and the not‑for‑profit and private sectors;

 (iii) to promote coordinated and consistent monitoring and evaluation frameworks by all governments for the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022‑2032;

 (iv) to develop and maintain a supportive and structured approach to victim‑survivor engagement;

 (v) to inform priorities for policy, research and data collection in cooperation with jurisdictions and relevant organisations and agencies;

 (vi) to promote the objectives of the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022‑2032 across all parts of Australian society.