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Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water Measures No. 2) Regulations 2023

Authoritative Version
  • - F2023L00546
  • No longer in force
Regulations as made
This instrument amends the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997 to establish legislative authority for government spending on certain activities administered by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.
Administered by: Finance
Registered 12 May 2023
Tabling HistoryDate
Tabled HR22-May-2023
Tabled Senate13-Jun-2023
Date of repeal 11 Aug 2023
Repealed by Division 1 of Part 3 of Chapter 3 of the Legislation Act 2003
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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water Measures No. 2) Regulations 2023

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               11 May 2023

 

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Katy Gallagher

Minister for Finance

 

 

 

  

  

Contents

1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1

4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                                                                          2

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997                                             2

 

1  Name

                   This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water Measures No. 2) 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.

13 May 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 1—Amendments

  

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997

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

Insert:

 

601

Murray‑Darling Basin Aboriginal Water Entitlements Program

To provide funding to support the purchase and management of water entitlements in the Murray‑Darling Basin for the benefit of First Nations communities in the Murray‑Darling Basin.

602

Environmental legal services

To provide funding to environmental legal assistance organisations to:

(a) provide legal information and legal assistance services (including legal advice and legal representation):

(i) to persons in relation to matters in the federal jurisdiction or in relation to Commonwealth laws; or

(ii) specifically targeted to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; or

(iii) to persons in a Territory; or

(b) provide legal information and assistance services through the use of telephone and online communication services; or

(c) provide for online and telephone communication between environmental legal assistance organisations; or

(d) evaluate or improve the matters referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) above.

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) with respect to Indigenous Australians and particular groups of Indigenous Australians; or

(c) incidental to the execution of the legislative powers vested in the Commonwealth; or

(d) undertaken in, or in relation to, a Territory.

603

Goyder Institute for Water Research Program

To provide funding to the Goyder Institute for Water Research to support or facilitate its activities or programs, including the following:

(a) research programs (including activities supporting the dissemination of research and knowledge exchange);

(b) training and education programs;

(c) communication and engagement programs;

as a measure to give effect to Australia’s obligations under one or more of the following:

(d) the Convention on Biological Diversity, particularly Articles 12 and 13;

(e) the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat, particularly Articles 3 and 4;

(f) the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, particularly Articles 4 and 6.