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Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Social Services 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 5 December 2024

Sam Mostyn AC

Governor‑General

By Her Excellency’s Command

Katy Gallagher

Minister for Finance

1 Name

This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Social Services 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.	7 December 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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:

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Volunteer Grants Program

To support a volunteer organisation to do any of the following:

(a) pay for:

(i) telephones and radio communication devices for use by volunteers; or

(ii) computers, software and other equipment or devices, where those items are to be used to facilitate online communications and activity by volunteers; or

(iii) internet service and telephone fees incurred by the organisation; or

(iv) insurance premiums incurred by the organisation;

(b) remove or reduce barriers to volunteering for:

(i) children who participate in volunteering as a means of supporting their development; or

(ii) people who support the development or wellbeing of children;