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National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Safeguard Mechanism) Amendment (Landfill Gas Capture) Rule 2021

I, Angus Taylor, Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, make the following instrument.

Dated: 30 September 2021  

Angus Taylor

Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction

 

 

 

 

Contents

1  Name ..................................................2

2  Commencement............................................2

3  Authority................................................2

4  Schedules................................................2

Schedule 1—Amendments 3

 

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Safeguard Mechanism) Amendment (Landfill Gas Capture) Rule 2021.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument 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

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

The day after this instrument is registered.

 

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subsection 22XS(1) of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Safeguard Mechanism) Rule 2015

1  Section 4 (definition of Benchmark Emissions-Intensity Index)

Omit “(including the prescribed capture efficiency rate for non-legacy greenhouse gas emissions)”.

2  Subsection 54(3) (formula)

Omit “BCt”, substitute “CER”.

3  Subsection 54(3) (definition of BCt)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

CER is 0.372, representing the capture efficiency rate for non-legacy greenhouse gas emissions.  

4  Section 1 of Schedule 1

Omit “and the prescribed capture efficiency rate for non-legacy greenhouse gas emissions”.