Higher Education Support Amendment (Australia's Economic Accelerator) Act 2023 (5 of 2023)

Schedule 1   Amendments

Higher Education Support Act 2003

11   Subclause 1(1) of Schedule 1

Insert:

AEA Advisory Board has the meaning given by section 42-10.

Australia's Economic Accelerator program means a program specified in the Other Grants Guidelines under which grants for purposes specified in item 14 of the table in subsection 41-10(1) are to be paid.

Australia's Economic Accelerator program information has the meaning given by section 181-10.

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.

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 2023 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (http://www.austlii.edu.au).