Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Environment and Energy Measures No. 3) Regulations 2017 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Environment and Energy Measures No. 3) 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 16 November 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. 3) 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.	18 November 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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:

253	Reef Guardian Grants Program	To fund activities that protect and conserve the heritage and the environment of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (the heritage area) and the Great Barrier Reef catchment area (the catchment area), including the following: (a) activities to engage communities in the catchment area to enable stewardship of the heritage and catchment areas; (b) research projects designed to address priority planning and management issues in the heritage and catchment areas that are undertaken by eligible students or researchers; (c) activities carried out in the heritage and catchment areas to address one or more of the key threats to the Great Barrier Reef; (d) activities carried out in the heritage area to support reef resilience. This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing funding for activities giving effect to Australia’s obligations under the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, particularly Articles 4, 5(a), 5(c) and 5(d).
254	Antarctic Science Foundation	To support Antarctic scientific research by providing funding (including loans) to the Antarctic Science Foundation for purposes relating to the establishment and initial operations of the Foundation, including the following: (a) employing key staff members; (b) meeting the preliminary travel costs of those staff members; (c) publicly launching the Foundation. This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing support for activities: (a) that are carried out in the Australian Antarctic Territory; or (b) in relation to places, persons, matters or things external to Australia.