Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00490:section:5:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00490
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 5 (pt 2/12)
Character Range: 29111–32060

paragraph 13(1)(ea);
 (ab) paragraph 13(1)(eb);
 (b) paragraph 23(1)(d);
 (c) paragraph 76(4)(c);
 (ca) paragraph 76(4)(ca);
 (cb) paragraph 76(4)(cb);
 (d) section 214;
 (e) section 215.
Australia, when used in a geographical sense, includes the external Territories.
Australian carbon credit unit means a unit issued under section 147.
Australian police force means:
 (a) the Australian Federal Police; or
 (b) a police force or police service of a State or Territory.
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.
avoid, in relation to emissions of greenhouse gases, includes reduce or eliminate.
benchmark sequestration level has the meaning given by subsection 97(8).
carbon abatement means:
 (a) the removal of one or more greenhouse gases from the atmosphere; or
 (b) the avoidance of emissions of one or more greenhouse gases.
carbon abatement contract has the meaning given by section 20B.
carbon abatement contractor has the meaning given by section 20B.
carbon abatement purchasing process has the meaning given by section 20F.
carbon dioxide equivalent, of an amount of greenhouse gas, means the carbon dioxide equivalence (within the meaning of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007) of the amount of the gas.
carbon estimation area, in relation to an area‑based offsets project, has the meaning given by the applicable methodology determination for the project.
carbon maintenance obligation has the meaning given by paragraph 97(2)(a).
certificate of entitlement means a certificate issued under section 15.
Chapter 5 body corporate has the same meaning as in the Corporations Act 2001.
civil penalty order means an order under subsection 221(1).
civil penalty provision means a provision declared by this Act to be a civil penalty provision.
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