This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Attorney-General’s Portfolio Measures No. 1) Regulations 2025.

(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.	12 March 2025

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table item 87, column headed “Objective(s)”, subparagraph (a)(ii))

Omit “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people”, substitute “Indigenous Australians”.

2 Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table item 87, column headed “Objective(s)”, after paragraph (d) (first occurring))

Insert:

(da) provide legal assistance services to individuals in relation to disputes with insurers, other than disputes in relation to State insurance (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xiv) of the Constitution); or

3 Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table item 87, column headed “Objective(s)”, paragraph (e) (first occurring))

Omit “or (d)”, substitute “, (d) or (da)”.

4 Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table item 87, column headed “Objective(s)”)

Omit “also”.

5 Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table item 87, column headed “Objective(s)”, paragraph (e) (second occurring))

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

(e) with respect to Indigenous Australians and particular groups of Indigenous Australians; or

(ea) with respect to insurance, other than State insurance (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xiv) of the Constitution); or

6 In the appropriate position in Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert:

702

Case Management and Mediation Services—Elder Abuse Program

To provide funding to organisations to provide services to address elder abuse, including through the provision of:

(a) legal information, advice and assistance; or

(b) administrative services; or

(d) financial support services; or

(e) non‑legal advocacy and mediation between family members;

as a measure to give effect to Australia’s obligations under:

(f) the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, particularly Articles 2, 7, 17 and 26; or

(g) the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, particularly Articles 4, 8 and 16.

703

Supporting victims and survivors of child sexual abuse and supporting children displaying harmful sexual behaviours

To provide social, therapeutic, legal and other support services to:

(a) victims and survivors of child sexual abuse; and

(b) children displaying harmful sexual behaviours or at risk of doing so;

as a measure to give effect to Australia’s obligations under the Convention of the Rights of the Child, particularly Articles 2, 4, 19, 34 and 39.