Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00105:section:4:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00105
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 4 (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 7468–10435

4  Definitions
  In this Act:
Account means the Clean Energy Finance Corporation Special Account established by section 45.
acquire includes acquire by way of issue.
ARENA means the Australian Renewable Energy Agency.
asset means:
 (a) any kind of real or personal property; or
 (b) any legal or equitable estate or interest in real or personal property; or
 (c) any legal or equitable right.
Australia, when used in a geographical sense, includes the external Territories.
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 the Corporation.
Board member means a member of the Board (and includes the Chair).
CEO means the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation.
Chair means the Chair of the Board.
clean energy technologies: see section 60.
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 2012, 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).
complying investment: see subsection 59(2).
constitutional corporation means a corporation to which paragraph 51(xx) of the Constitution applies.
Corporation means the Clean Energy Finance Corporation established by section 8.
Corporation official: see subsection 75(3).
Corporation's money: see section 53.
derivative means a derivative (within the meaning of Chapter 7 of the Corporations Act 2001) that is a financial asset.
energy efficiency technologies: see section 60.
Finance Minister means the Minister administering the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.
financial asset: see section 63.
GFS Australia means the publication of the Australian Bureau of Statistics known as Australian System of Government Finance Statistics: Concepts, Sources and Methods, as updated from time to time. This updating takes 2 forms:
 (a) from time to time, a new version of the