4Definitions

#### 4 Definitions 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. > 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. > Deputy Chair means the Deputy Chair of the Board. > electrification technologies means: (a) technologies that use electricity and replace technologies that use fossil fuels; or (b) technologies that facilitate the replacement of technologies that use fossil fuels with technologies that use electricity. > energy efficiency technologies includes: (a) energy conservation technologies; and (b) demand management technologies; and (c) technologies (including enabling technologies) that are related to energy efficiency technologies. > 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).