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Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Home Affairs Measures No. 4) Regulations 2024

I, the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated   24 October 2024

Sam Mostyn AC

Governor‑General

By Her 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

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Home Affairs Measures No. 4) Regulations 2024.

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.

29 October 2024

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

 

690

Modernised Multicultural Grants Program

To support multicultural Australia and multicultural communities by funding the following:

(a) grassroots multicultural organisations to engage in capacity building activities, including festivals, celebrations, small amenity upgrades and community programs;

(b) peak bodies to engage in activities directed to strengthening Australia’s multicultural capacity through:

(i) promoting inclusive and respectful communities; and

(ii) promoting the value of immigration, multiculturalism and Australian citizenship; and

(iii) strengthening understanding of Australian values and civic responsibilities.

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

(a) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, particularly Articles 2 and 7; or

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

691

Protecting migrant workers—information and education package

To safeguard temporary migrant workers from workplace exploitation and enhance the integrity of Australia’s visa system by:

(a) designing information and educational materials on migrant worker rights, protections and obligations and migration compliance measures; and

(b) disseminating these information and educational materials to temporary migrant workers and their employers; and

(c) supporting non‑government organisations to provide services and other supports to temporary migrant workers and their employers in relation to migrant worker rights, protections and obligations and migration compliance measures.