2013
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013
No. , 2013
(Environment)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Act 1995, and for related purposes
Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Schedule(s)......................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1—Amendments 3
Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Act 1995 3
A Bill for an Act to amend the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Act 1995, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Act 2013.
2 Commencement
(1) Each provision of this Act 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.
| Commencement information |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Provision(s) | Commencement | Date/Details |
| 1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table | The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. | |
| 2. Schedule 1 | At the same time as Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Clean Energy Legislation (Carbon Tax Repeal) Act 2013 commences. | 1 July 2014 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
3 Schedule(s)
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Act 1995
1 Section 2A (heading)
Repeal the heading, substitute:
2A Definition
2 Section 2A (definition of carbon unit)
Repeal the definition.
3 Section 2A (definition of fixed charge year)
Repeal the definition.
4 Section 2A (definition of flexible charge year)
Repeal the definition.
5 Section 2A (definition of issue)
Repeal the definition.
6 Section 2A (definition of per‑tonne carbon price equivalent)
Repeal the definition.
7 Section 2A (definition of vintage year)
Repeal the definition.
8 Section 2B
Repeal the section.
9 Subsections 3A(5) and (6)
Repeal the subsections, substitute:
(5) The amount of levy imposed by subsection (1) on a licensee in respect of the manufacture of an SGG in a quarter is the amount worked out using the following formula:
where:
prescribed rate means:
(a) $165; or
(b) if a lower amount is prescribed by the regulations—that lower amount.
10 Subsection 3A(7)
Omit “carbon charge component of the amount of the”.
11 Subsection 3A(8)
Repeal the subsection.
12 Paragraph 3A(11)(a)
Omit “the carbon charge component of the amount of”.
13 Application of amendments
The amendments of the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Act 1995 made by this Act apply in relation to levy for:
(a) the quarter beginning on 1 July 2014; and
(b) each later quarter.