Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water Measures No. 1) Regulations 2022 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water Measures No. 1) Regulations 2022

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

Dated 8 December 2022

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Katy Gallagher

Minister for Finance

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water Measures No. 1) Regulations 2022.

2Commencement

1. (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.	15 December 2022

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.

1. (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.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Act 1997.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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. 1

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

Insert:

579	Payments to the International Whaling Commission	To provide funding to enhance Australia’s leadership in the International Whaling Commission by paying financial contributions to aid the International Whaling Commission’s financial sustainability and build its whale conservation expertise and agenda.
580	National Biodiversity Market	To support the operation of a national biodiversity market by providing funding: (a) for the development of innovative ways of assessing and monitoring biodiversity change at the project and landscape scale; and (b) for research partnerships to support the delivery of methods and inputs for biodiversity assessment; and (c) to ensure that key biodiversity assessment methods, models and information sources are fit for purpose to support the operation of the biodiversity market; and (d) to assist organisations and persons, including natural resource management organisations, to improve their understanding of environmental markets; and (e) to enable organisations and persons, including natural resource management organisations, to assist landholders in developing and implementing projects under existing and emerging environmental markets, including under the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011; and (f) to expand a project development and market platform to include an automated trading system for the private sector and landholders. This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures: (a) with respect to postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution); or (b) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under one or more of the following: (i) the Convention on Biological Diversity, particularly Articles 8 and 10; (ii) the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, particularly Article 10; (iii) the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, particularly Article 4; or (c) undertaken in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth.
581	Protecting the Great Barrier Reef and securing reef jobs	To protect, restore and conserve the Great Barrier Reef by providing funding: (a) for the purpose of supporting local councils involved in the Reef Guardian Councils program to deliver projects proposed in Reef Action Plans prepared under that program; and (b) to Central Queensland University to assist with costs associated with establishing the Coastal Marine Ecosystems Research Centre, and to support that Centre’s work. This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures: (a) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, particularly Articles 4 and 5; or (b) in relation to places, persons, matters or things external to Australia.
582	ReMade in Australia	To establish and promote the trade marked ‘ReMade in Australia’ brand, including: (a) establishing a licensing scheme for the use of the trade mark that is administered by a non‑government licensing body; and (b) undertaking communications activities to promote the trade mark.
583	Saving Native Species	To provide funding for activities to protect and support the recovery of Australian plant and animal species, and places, including to: (a) protect, rehabilitate and support the recovery of, and prevent the extinction of, threatened native species and their habitats, and threatened ecological communities; and (b) protect the biodiversity of the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area and the Bowling Green Bay Ramsar internationally important wetland from invasive yellow crazy ants, including by providing support to the Wet Tropics Management Authority; and (c) support coordination of recovery actions and monitoring of threatened species and their habitats, including by developing threat abatement spatial planning tools for land managers to protect threatened species on their land. This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures: (a) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under one or more of the following: (i) the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, particularly Articles 4 and 5; (ii) the Convention on Biological Diversity, particularly Articles 7, 8, 9 and 10; (iii) the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat, particularly Articles 3 and 4; or (b) involving the granting of financial assistance to a State.
584	Engaging with First Nations Peoples on Climate Change	To provide funding to: (a) support the creation and implementation of a coordinated approach to climate change issues with Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations communities, including by establishing and supporting the Torres Strait Climate Centre of Excellence; and (b) establish and support activities to assist Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations communities to respond to climate change; and (c) support the extension of activities described in paragraphs (a) and (b) to people in the islands of the Pacific. This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures: (a) with respect to the people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws; or (b) with respect to places, persons, matters or things external to Australia; or (c) with respect to Australia’s relations with the islands of the Pacific.