Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment (Native Forest Wood Waste) Regulations 2022

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 15 December 2022

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Chris Bowen

Minister for Climate Change and Energy

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Renewable Energy (Electricity) Regulations 2001

1  Name

  This instrument is the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment (Native Forest Wood Waste) Regulations 2022.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Renewable Energy (Electricity) Regulations 2001

1  Subregulation 8(1)

Omit “(1) For”, substitute “For the purposes of”.

2  Paragraph 8(1)(d)

Omit “residue; and”, substitute “residue.”.

3  Paragraph 8(1)(e)

Repeal the paragraph.

4  Subregulations 8(2) to (4)

Repeal the subregulations.

5  In the appropriate position in Part 9

Insert:

56  Amendments made by the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment (Native Forest Wood Waste) Regulations 2022

  Despite the amendments of regulation 8 made by Schedule 1 to the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment (Native Forest Wood Waste) Regulations 2022, that regulation continues to apply, as if those amendments had not been made, in relation to an accredited power station if:

 (a) the power station first became accredited as an accredited power station during the period that:

 (i) began on 27 June 2015; and

 (ii) ended immediately before the commencement of this regulation; and

 (b) the application for accreditation of the power station listed the eligible energy source of wood waste.