Product Emissions Standards (Excise) Charges Amendment Regulations 2021

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 09 December 2021

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Trevor Evans

Assistant Minister for Waste Reduction and Environmental Management
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Product Emissions Standards (Excise) Charges Regulations 2018

1  Name

  This instrument is the Product Emissions Standards (Excise) Charges Amendment Regulations 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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 the Product Emissions Standards (Excise) Charges Act 2017.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1—Amendments

Product Emissions Standards (Excise) Charges Regulations 2018

1  Before section 1

Insert:

Part 1—Preliminary

2  Section 4 (definition of product price)

Omit “$20,000” (wherever occurring), substitute “$10,000”.

3  Before section 5

Insert:

Part 2—Charge on the manufacture of emissions‑controlled products

4  Subsection 5(3) (formula)

Repeal the formula, substitute:

5  Subsection 5(4)

Omit “0.0045”, substitute “0.0033”.

6  Subsection 5(5)

Omit “$32,000”, substitute “$44,000”.

7  At the end of the instrument

Add:

Part 3—Transitional, application and saving provisions

6  Amendments made by the Product Emissions Standards (Excise) Charges Amendment Regulations 2021

  The amendments made by the Product Emissions Standards (Excise) Charges Amendment Regulations 2021 apply in relation to emissions‑controlled products that are manufactured on or after 1 July 2021.