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Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water Measures No. 5) Regulations 2023

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), GovernorGeneral of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated  14 December  2023

David Hurley

GovernorGeneral

By His 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 (Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water Measures No. 5) 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1Amendments

 

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997

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

Insert:

 

640

Community Energy Upgrades Fund

To provide funding for energy efficiency and electrification upgrades to facilities owned or operated by local governments as a measure to give effect to Australia’s obligations under one or more of the following:

(a) the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, particularly Article 10;

(b) the Paris Agreement, particularly Article 4;

(c) the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, particularly Article 4.

641

Emergency Services Training for Electric Vehicles

To provide funding for the development and communication of EV safety guidance, demonstrations and training for emergency service workers responding to EVrelated accidents and fires involving lithiumion or other batteries, as a measure to give effect to, or incidental to the giving of effect to, Australia’s obligations under one or more of the following:

(a) the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, particularly Article 10;

(b) the Paris Agreement, particularly Article 4;

(c) the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, particularly Article 4.