Clean Energy Amendment (International Emissions Trading and Other Measures) Act2012 (204 of 2012)

Schedule 1  

Part 1   General amendments

Clean Energy Act 2011

50   After subsection 24(8D)

Insert:

Own-use notifications - no double counting

(8E) If:

(a) the designated joint venture had the landfill facility throughout the eligible financial year; and

(b) during the eligible financial year, an amount of covered emissions from the operation of the landfill facility was attributable to the combustion of natural gas that was supplied by a natural gas supplier to a person (the recipient ) (who may be a participant in the designated joint venture); and

(c) the natural gas supplier has, under section 35A, a provisional emissions number for an eligible financial year; and

(d) the provisional emissions number is wholly or partly attributable to the supply of the natural gas to the recipient; and

(e) either:

(i) the recipient gave the natural gas supplier an own-use notification in relation to the supply of the natural gas; or

(ii) the conditions specified in the regulations are satisfied;

the amount mentioned in paragraph (b):

(f) does not count for the purposes of subsection (1); and

(g) counts for the purposes of paragraph (4)(b).

(8F) If:

(a) the designated joint venture had the landfill facility for a number of, but not all, days in the eligible financial year (the control days ); and

(b) during the control days, an amount of covered emissions from the operation of the landfill facility was attributable to the combustion of natural gas that was supplied by a natural gas supplier to a person (the recipient ) (who may be a participant in the designated joint venture); and

(c) the natural gas supplier has, under section 35A, a provisional emissions number for an eligible financial year; and

(d) the provisional emissions number is wholly or partly attributable to the supply of the natural gas to the recipient; and

(e) either:

(i) the recipient gave the natural gas supplier an own-use notification in relation to the supply of the natural gas; or

(ii) the conditions specified in the regulations are satisfied;

the amount mentioned in paragraph (b):

(f) does not count for the purposes of subsection (1); and

(g) counts for the purposes of paragraph (5)(b).