Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Environment and Energy Measures No. 1) Regulations 2017 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Environment and Energy Measures No. 1) Regulations 2017

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 09 March 2017

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Environment and Energy Measures No. 1) Regulations 2017.

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 March 2017

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1—Amendments

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997

1. 1

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

Insert:

194	Improving your Local Parks and Environment Program	To provide support for local councils, environmental and community groups and others to undertake measures for the protection of the environment in their local areas, in particular by: (a) protecting, conserving and rehabilitating natural ecosystems and habitats; and (b) undertaking activities and adopting practices aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing support for activities to give effect to Australia’s obligations under: (a) the Convention on Biological Diversity, particularly Articles 7(c), 8(d), (f), (h) and (l) and 13(a); or (b) the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, particularly Articles 4(1)(b), (c) and (f) and 4(2)(a).
195	Solar Communities Program	To provide support for community groups to install solar photovoltaic equipment, solar hot water equipment and solar‑connected batteries at facilities that they own, lease or use to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to the extent that these measures give effect to Australia’s obligations under: (a) the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; or (b) the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
196	Food Rescue Charity Program	To provide support for food rescue charities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in particular by: (a) installing solar photovoltaic equipment, solar‑connected batteries and energy efficient refrigeration equipment at facilities that they own, lease or use; or (b) purchasing energy efficient refrigeration vehicles. This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing support for measures to give effect to Australia’s obligations under: (a) the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; or (b) the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.