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Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Employment and Workplace Relations 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 14 December 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. 3) 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.	16 December 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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:

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Reducing silicosis and other silica‑related diseases by increasing awareness

To raise awareness of, and provide education, information or advice about, the following:

(a) the risks to health caused by exposure to respirable crystalline silica or engineered stone that is in situ;

(b) measures that should be taken to prevent workers developing silicosis or any another other silica‑related disease;

(c) the effect of laws, including proposed changes to laws, that seek to reduce the incidence of silicosis and other silica‑related diseases in Australia.

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) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2 and 12; or