Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997

1

Grants for drought assistance

To establish and fund a scheme for making loans to eligible farm businesses.

2

Mersey Community Hospital

To provide funding to Tasmania for the continued operation of the Mersey Community Hospital.

3

Grants for drought recovery assistance

To establish and fund schemes for making loans to eligible farm businesses.

5

Women’s Safety Technology Trials

To provide grants of financial assistance to a State or Territory for the development and delivery of trials that test ways of using technology to improve the safety of women experiencing, or at risk of, violence.

6

Grants for dairy sector assistance

To establish and fund a scheme for making loans to eligible dairy farm businesses.

7

Grant for a northern Australia shared biosecurity diagnostic facility

To construct a shared biosecurity diagnostic facility in northern Australia.

8

Grants for farm business assistance for former recipients of the Farm Household Allowance

To establish and fund a scheme for making loans to eligible farm businesses.

9

School education—Tasmania

To provide grants of financial assistance to Tasmania to fund specialist literacy programs and other support programs for Tasmanian students at government and non‑government schools.

10

Grants for school education reform

To provide grants of financial assistance to a State or Territory to enable the State or Territory to undertake school education reform or implement national policy measures relating to school education.

11

Family law payments to States and Territories

To provide funding to the States and Territories for:

(a) the exercise by State and Territory courts of federal jurisdiction under the Family Law Act 1975, the Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988 and the Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989; and

(b) the use of State court facilities by the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 1) and the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2).

This purpose also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing funding:

(a) in connection with, or incidental to, the investing of any court of a State with federal jurisdiction; or

(b) involving the granting of financial assistance to a State or Territory.

12

Grants to improve road safety in Australia

To provide grants of financial assistance to a State or Territory to support activities and projects to reduce deaths and injuries from road crashes in Australia.

13

Payments for activities that counter illicit tobacco

To provide grants of financial assistance to a State or Territory for State or Territory law enforcement agencies to undertake activities to counter illicit tobacco.

14

Grants for major and community infrastructure projects

To provide grants of financial assistance to a State or Territory for the planning, construction or upgrading of infrastructure, including community infrastructure, and for incidental matters.