Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN RENEWABLE ENERGY AGENCY ACT 2011 - SECT 4

    In this Act:

"agreement" includes a contract or deed.

"appointed member" means a Board member appointed under section   30.

"ARENA" : see Australian Renewable Energy Agency .

"ARENA's money" : see section   67.

"Australia" , when used in a geographical sense, includes the external Territories.

"Australian Renewable Energy Agency" or ARENA means the body established by section   7.

"Australia's greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets" means:

  (a)   if:

  (i)   Australia's current nationally determined contribution was communicated in accordance with Article 4 of the Paris Agreement in June 2022; and

  (ii)   that nationally determined contribution has not been adjusted in accordance with paragraph   11 of Article 4 of the Paris Agreement;

    the greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets set out in paragraphs 10(1)(a) and (b) of the Climate Change Act 2022 ; or

  (b)   in any other case--the greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets included in:

  (i)   Australia's current nationally determined contribution communicated in accordance with Article 4 of the Paris Agreement; or

  (ii)   if that nationally determined contribution has been adjusted in accordance with paragraph   11 of Article 4 of the Paris Agreement--that nationally determined contribution, as adjusted and in force from time to time.

"Board" means the Board of ARENA.

"Board member" means a member of the Board.

"CEO" means the Chief Executive Officer of ARENA.

"Chair" means the Chair of the Board.

"Chief Financial Officer" means the person employed under section   61.

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

Note:   The text of the Convention is set out in Australian Treaty Series 1994 No.   2 ([1994] ATS 2). In 2011, the text of a Convention in the Australian Treaty Series was accessible through the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (www.austlii.edu.au).

"constitutional corporation" means a corporation to which paragraph   51(xx) of the Constitution applies.

"Finance Minister" means the Minister who administers the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 .

"financial assistance" means:

  (a)   grants; or

  (b)   any other kinds of assistance specified by the Minister by legislative instrument for the purpose of this paragraph.

"non-Commonwealth money" means money that ARENA receives from a person other than the Commonwealth.

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

Note:   The Agreement is in Australian Treaty Series 2016 No.   24 ([2016] ATS 24) and could in 2022 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (http://www.austlii.edu.au).

"renewable energy technologies" includes:

  (a)   hybrid technologies; and

  (b)   technologies (including enabling technologies) that are related to renewable energy technologies.

"Secretary" means the Secretary of the Department.

"vacancy" , in relation to the office of an appointed member, has a meaning affected by subsection   33(4).