Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Social Services Measures No. 3) 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 19 June 2023
David Hurley
Governor‑General
By His Excellency’s Command
Katy Gallagher
Minister for Finance
Contents
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Schedules
Schedule 1—Amendments
Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997
This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Social Services Measures No. 3) Regulations 2023.
(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. | 22 June 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.
This instrument is made under the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Act 1997.
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997
1 In the appropriate position in Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table)
Insert:
611 | Jindelara Cottage—Permanent Accommodation | To fund the refurbishment and construction of permanent accommodation at Jindelara Cottage for people with disabilities, as a measure to give effect to Australia’s obligation under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, particularly Articles 4, 9, 19 and 28. |
612 | Sustain myGov | To provide funding for the continued operation and maintenance of the online platform known as myGov, including to enable the use of myGov to access Commonwealth, State and Territory services. |
613 | Disability Worker COVID‑19 Leave Payments | To provide, as a sickness benefit (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution), payments to individuals (through the reimbursement of payments made by an individual’s employer) who: (a) provide close personal support to National Disability Insurance Scheme participants; and (b) are unable to earn their usual income due to testing positive for the coronavirus known as COVID‑19; and (c) have, or had, no available paid leave entitlements to cover the period of their inability to earn their usual income. |