This instrument is the Industry Research and Development (Zero Net Emissions from Agriculture Cooperative Research Centre Partnership Program) Instrument 2024.

(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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 section 33 of the Industry Research and Development Act 1986.

4 Definitions

In this instrument:

Act means the Industry Research and Development Act 1986.

Kyoto Protocol means the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, done at Kyoto on 11 December 1997, as in force for Australia from time to time.

Note: The Kyoto Protocol is in Australian Treaty Series 2008 No. 2 ([2008] ATS 2) and could in 2024 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (http://www.austlii.edu.au).

Paris Agreement means the Paris Agreement, done at Paris on 12 December 2015, as in force for Australia from time to time.

Note: The Paris Agreement is in Australian Treaty Series 2016 No. 24 ([2016] ATS 24) and could in 2024 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (http://www.austlii.edu.au).

program: see subsection 5(1).

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change means the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, done at New York on 9 May 1992, as in force for Australia from time to time.

Note: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is in Australian Treaty Series 1994 No. 2 ([1994] ATS 2) and could in 2024 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (http://www.austlii.edu.au).

CRC means the Zero Net Emissions from Agriculture Cooperative Research Centre.

5 Prescribed program

(1) For the purposes of subsection 33(1) of the Act, the Zero Net Emissions from Agriculture Cooperative Research Centre Partnership Program (the program) is prescribed.

(2) The program provides funding for the Commonwealth to participate as a partner to the CRC, including by the payment of partnership fees.

(3) The purpose of the program is to influence and shape the CRC’s activities relating to the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions in the agricultural sector to help align with the Commonwealth’s emissions mitigation objectives across the economy, and contribute to meeting Australia’s obligations under Article 4 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Article 10 of the Kyoto Protocol and Article 4 of the Paris Agreement.

6 Specified legislative power

For the purposes of subsection 33(3) of the Act, the power of the Parliament to make laws with respect to external affairs (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxix) of the Constitution), as it relates to measures to give effect to Australia’s obligations under one or more of the following, is specified:

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

(b) the Kyoto Protocol, particularly Article 10;