Industry Research and Development (Additional Support for Clothing Textiles Circularity Grant Program) Instrument 2025

I, Tanya Plibersek, Minister for the Environment and Water, as delegate of the Minister for Industry and Science, make the following instrument.

Dated  24.2.25  

Tanya Plibersek

Minister for the Environment and Water

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Prescribed program

6  Specified legislative power

1  Name

  This instrument is the Industry Research and Development (Additional Support for Clothing Textiles Circularity Grant Program) Instrument 2025.

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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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

program: see subsection 5(1).

5  Prescribed program

 (1) For the purposes of subsection 33(1) of the Act, the Additional Support for Clothing Textiles Circularity Grant Program (the program) is prescribed.

 (2) The program is to provide grant funding to the eligible organisation responsible for implementing, on a national level:

1.     voluntary industry-led national product stewardship initiatives; and
2.     pilot sustainability projects which address the environmental impacts of clothing textiles at all stages of the product lifecycle and align with circular economy principles.

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 enterprises and activities that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation (see paragraph 51(xxxix) and section 61 of the Constitution) is specified.