Renewable Energy (Electricity) (Charge) Amendment Act 2010

No. 70, 2010

An Act to amend the Renewable Energy (Electricity) (Charge) Act 2000, and for related purposes

Renewable Energy (Electricity) (Charge) Amendment Act 2010

No. 70, 2010

An Act to amend the Renewable Energy (Electricity) (Charge) Act 2000, and for related purposes

[Assented to 28 June 2010]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Renewable Energy (Electricity) (Charge) Amendment Act 2010.

2 Commencement

(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provision(s)	Commencement	Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table	The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.	28 June 2010
2. Schedule 1	At the same time as Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment Act 2010 commences.	1 January 2011

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally passed by both Houses of the Parliament and assented to. It will not be expanded to deal with provisions inserted in this Act after assent.

(2) Column 3 of the table contains additional information that is not part of this Act. Information in this column may be added to or edited in any published version of this Act.

3 Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Renewable Energy (Electricity) (Charge) Act 2000

1 Title

Omit “renewable energy certificate charge”, substitute “large‑scale generation shortfall charge”.

2 Section 1

Omit “Charge”, substitute “Large‑scale Generation Shortfall Charge”.

Note: This item amends the short title of the Act. If another amendment of the Act is described by reference to the Act’s previous short title, that other amendment has effect after the commencement of this item as an amendment of the Act under its amended short title (see section 10 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901).

3 Section 5

Repeal the section, substitute:

5 Imposition

The large‑scale generation shortfall charge that is payable under the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000 is imposed by this section.

4 Application of amendments

The amendments made by this Act apply in relation to liability to large‑scale generation shortfall charge under the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000 for the year starting on the commencement of this Schedule and later years.