Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move amendment (18) on sheet 5816 revised:

(18)  Schedule 2, item 14, page 16 (after line 11), after subsection 46B(1), insert:

     (1A)    Regulations prescribing a method for calculating a liable entity’s partial exemption for the year in relation to an emissions-intensive trade-exposed activity must take into account any electricity price reductions resulting from the implementation of the renewable energy target and must avoid giving a liable entity a windfall gain.

Question negatived.

Bill, as amended, agreed to.

Renewable Energy (Electricity) (Charge) Amendment Bill 2009

Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.

Bill agreed to.

Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment Bill 2009 reported with amendments; Renewable Energy (Electricity) (Charge) Amendment Bill 2009 reported without requests; report adopted.