{"id":"F2014L01691","name":"Carbon Farming Initiative Amendment Commencement Proclamation 2014","slug":"carbon-farming-initiative-amendment-commencement-proclamation-2014","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":92363,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2014L01691-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-02","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Carbon Farming Initiative Amendment Commencement Proclamation 2014","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 20.2\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nCarbon Farming Initiative Amendment Commencement Proclamation 2014\n\nI, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and under item 2 of the table in subsection 2(1) of the Carbon Farming Initiative Amendment Act 2014, fix 13 December 2014 as the day on which Schedule 1 to that Act commences.\n\nSigned and sealed with the Great Seal of Australia on 11 December 2014\n\nPeter Cosgrove\n\nGovernor‑General\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command\n\nGreg Hunt\n\nMinister for the Environment\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1620},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a commencement proclamation that activates provisions already enacted in the Carbon Farming Initiative Amendment Act 2014. It does not expand, restrict, or modify the substantive scope of the underlying legislation; it merely implements the temporal trigger contemplated by section 2 of the parent Act."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision fixing a commencement date","No defined terms, interpretation sections, or schedules","No conditional logic, exceptions, or penalty provisions","Extremely short form (under 150 operative words)","Only one external reference (to the parent Act) without nested cross-referencing"],"plain_english_summary":"This document is essentially the **'go live' button** for part of Australia's carbon farming laws.\n\nMade by the Governor-General, it formally declares that **Schedule 1 of the Carbon Farming Initiative Amendment Act 2014** starts on **13 December 2014**. \n\n**What this means:**\n*   The amendments contained in that Schedule—which change how the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) operates—became legally enforceable on that specific date\n*   Farmers, landholders, and carbon project developers became subject to the new rules from 13 December 2014 onwards\n*   Without this proclamation, those changes would have remained dormant on the statute books indefinitely\n\nIt is a purely procedural instrument (a formal timing mechanism) rather than a substantive law-making document."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/carbon-farming-initiative-amendment-commencement-proclamation-2014","history":"/api/acts/carbon-farming-initiative-amendment-commencement-proclamation-2014/history","analysis":"/api/acts/carbon-farming-initiative-amendment-commencement-proclamation-2014/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/carbon-farming-initiative-amendment-commencement-proclamation-2014/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/carbon-farming-initiative-amendment-commencement-proclamation-2014/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/carbon-farming-initiative-amendment-commencement-proclamation-2014/documents"}}