Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Amendment (Abolition of National Water Commission) Regulation 2015

 

Select Legislative Instrument No. 96, 2015

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), GovernorGeneral of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 25 June 2015

Peter Cosgrove

GovernorGeneral

By His Excellency’s Command

Greg Hunt

Minister for the Environment

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Regulations 2011

1  Name

  This is the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Amendment (Abolition of National Water Commission) Regulation 2015.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

 

Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Regulations 2011

1  Regulation 3.34 (definition of National Water Commission)

Repeal the definition.

2  Regulation 3.34 (definition of National Water Initiative)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

National Water Initiative means the Intergovernmental Agreement on a National Water Initiative between the Commonwealth of Australia and the Governments of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, as amended from time to time.

3  Regulation 3.34

Insert:

Water Department means the Department of State that deals with water policy and resources and that is administered by the Minister administering the Water Act 2007.

4  Subregulation 3.37(4)

Omit “National Water Commission”, substitute “Water Department”.