Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I move government amendments 1 to 4 on sheet BF213:

(1)    Schedule 2, item 8, page 14 (line 2), omit “Authority’s”, substitute “Regulator’s”.

(2)    Schedule 2, item 8, page 14 (lines 4, 7, 11 and 15), omit “Authority”, substitute “Regulator”.

(3)    Schedule 2, item 14, page 15 (lines 17, 28 and 30), omit “Authority”, substitute “Regulator”.

(4)    Schedule 2, item 14, page 16 (lines 3, 12, 17, 21, 26, 28, 29 and 32), omit “Authority”, substitute “Regulator”.

These are minor amendments dealing with an administrative matter and clarifying that the Renewable Energy Regulator, who administers the current Mandatory Renewable Energy Target scheme and who will administer the expanded Renewable Energy Target scheme, will be responsible for administration of partial exemptions in relation to emissions-intensive trade-exposed activities under the RET scheme. When the Carbon Pollution Production Scheme comes into force, the Renewable Energy Regulator will be absorbed into the Australian Climate Change Regulatory Authority, which will administer these partial exemptions. The proposed amendments simply replace several references made in the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment Bill 2009 to the Australian Climate Change Regulatory Authority, known as ‘the authority’, with references to the Renewable Energy Regulator, ‘ the regulator’, as the authority will only come into existence once the CPRS legislation passes. Consequential amendments in the CPRS legislation will give effect to the requisite change of reference from ‘regulator’ to ‘authority’ in the RET legislation at the appropriate time. These provisions are to commence on the day in which the act receives royal assent.

Question agreed to.