Commonwealth Numbered Acts Commonwealth Numbered ActsIn 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.
"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.
"Chief Financial Officer" means the person employed under section 61.
"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).
"Finance Minister" means the Minister who administers the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 .
(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.
"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).