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Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Employment and Workplace Relations Measures No. 1) Regulations 2023

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 16 March 2023

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Katy Gallagher

Minister for Finance

1 Name

This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Employment and Workplace Relations Measures No. 1) Regulations 2023.

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.	18 March 2023

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

597

Productivity, Education and Training Fund

To provide assistance to representative employers’ and workers’ organisations to:

(a) support engagement by representative employers’ and workers’ organisations, and their members, through enhanced tripartite governance structures across the Commonwealth workplace relations portfolio, to inform Commonwealth policy development; and

(b) enable running of workplace productivity, education and training initiatives by representative employers’ and workers’ organisations to support their members to engage in Commonwealth law reform processes, encourage take up of new Commonwealth laws in their workplaces, and monitor and evaluate implementation of Commonwealth law reforms on the ground; and

(c) ensure greater emphasis on tripartite engagement and social dialogue to deliver the Commonwealth Government’s workplace relations reform agenda and allow appropriate engagement on reforms by key peak agencies to manage the broad impacts of reforms; and

(d) enable representative employers’ and workers’ organisations, as key intermediaries, to raise awareness of Commonwealth workplace reforms among persons who are subject to those laws, which will help increase compliance with Commonwealth workplace laws and reduce the regulatory burden associated with unintended non‑compliance.

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

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

(i) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2 and 7;

(ii) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Labour Administration: Role, Functions and Organisation, particularly Articles 2, 4, 5 and 6; or

(b) undertaken in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth.