This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 In the appropriate position in Part 3 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert:

Grant to the Kimberley Land Council Aboriginal Corporation

To provide funding to the Kimberley Land Council Aboriginal Corporation to conduct research to support the listing of the West Kimberley on the World Heritage List, as a measure to give effect to Australia’s obligations under the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, particularly Articles 4, 5 and 11.

2 Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table item 319)

Repeal the item, substitute:

319

Fisheries Assistance and User Engagement Funding Program

To provide ongoing funding and support for fishers and other users of areas of sea that, under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, are declared as Commonwealth reserves, where:

(a) the areas of sea are outside Australia and are in Commonwealth marine areas; and

(b) the funding and support is for the fishers and other users to:

(i) adjust to changes in access and regulatory requirements resulting from new or revised zoning arrangements in those Commonwealth reserves; or

(ii) engage in projects that further the objects of those Commonwealth reserves.

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

Insert:

704

High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza H5N1 Preparedness Capability Program

To support measures in preparation for any incursions of high pathogenicity avian influenza H5N1 in Australia, so as to limit its impacts on Australian wildlife and ecosystems and give effect to Australia’s obligations under international agreements including:

(a) the Convention on Biological Diversity, particularly Articles 6, 8 and 9; and

(b) the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat, particularly Article 3.

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

(a) with respect to places, persons, matters or things external to Australia; or

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

705

Quad Clean Energy Supply Chain Diversification Program

To develop and diversify clean energy supply chains in the Indo‑Pacific region by funding eligible projects, as a measure:

(a) with respect to places, persons, matters or things external to Australia or matters affecting Australia’s relations with foreign countries; or

(b) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under one or more of the following:

(i) the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, particularly Article 4;

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

(iii) the Paris Agreement, particularly Articles 4 and 10.