# The Safeguard Mechanism (Crediting) Amendment Act 2023 receives Royal Assent

Date: 2023

## The fact

On 30 March 2023 Parliament passed the Safeguard Mechanism (Crediting) Amendment Bill 2022. It received Royal Assent on 11 April 2023 as Act No. 14 of 2023. Reforms commenced 1 July 2023, declining baselines for about 215 large facilities toward the 43 percent target, with a hard cap of 1,233 Mt to 2030.

## Context

Climate Change Act sat as parent. Neighbouring Future Gas is a later fossil file. He did not sit as the Clean Energy Regulator.

Climate Act 2022 is the parent. Future Gas 2024 is a child tension.

The Prime Minister of Australia chairs Cabinet and advises the Governor-General. Parliament enacts; the Governor-General assents. He does not write a High Court judgment, a state housing approval, or a US AUKUS submarine yard print.

## Evidence and sources

Federal Register of Legislation carries the official instrument or communique. Norton Rose Fulbright records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

## What is established and what is not

Established: 11 April 2023 Royal Assent and 1 July 2023 commencement, independently placed on the departmental record.

Not established: that every facility thereby cut actual emissions that Tuesday, or a unique later national-inventory coefficient.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The Governor-General assented. He led Cabinet. Bowen administered. The Clean Energy Regulator implements.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The Safeguard Mechanism (Crediting) Amendment Act 2023 receives Royal Assent, not a later speech about The Safeguard Mechanism (Crediting) Amendment Act 2023 receives Royal Assent.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The Safeguard Mechanism (Crediting) Amendment Act 2023 receives Royal Assent on 2023-04-11 is not a licence to treat every later Federal Register of Legislation communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The Safeguard Mechanism (Crediting) Amendment Act 2023 receives Royal Assent into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Parliament passed. The Governor-General assented. He led Cabinet. Bowen administered. The Clean Energy Regulator implements. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Anthony Albanese: https://factrail.ai/people/anthony-albanese

## Drivers

- Carbon-Pricing Coverage: https://factrail.ai/drivers/carbon-pricing-coverage
- Decarbonization and climate-mitigation policy: https://factrail.ai/drivers/env-decarbonization-policy

## Sources

- https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en/knowledge/publications/ec39762f/first-tranche-of-safeguard-mechanism-reforms-made
- https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2023A00014/asmade

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/au-safeguard-2023