National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Amendment (Reporting Obligations) Regulations 2018
I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.
Dated 21 June 2018
Peter Cosgrove
Governor‑General
By His Excellency’s Command
Josh Frydenberg
Minister for the Environment and Energy
Contents
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2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1
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4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1
Schedule 1—Amendments 2
National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Regulations 2008 2
1 Name
This instrument is the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Amendment (Reporting Obligations) Regulations 2018.
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.
| Commencement information |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
| 1. The whole of this instrument | 1 July 2018. | 1 July 2018 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007.
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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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
National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Regulations 2008
1 Regulation 1.03 (definition of decommissioned underground mine)
Repeal the definition, substitute:
decommissioned underground mine means an underground coal mine where the following activities have ceased to occur and are not expected to occur in the future:
(a) coal production;
(b) active mine ventilation, including the operation of ventilation fans at the mine.
2 In the appropriate position in Part 7
Insert:
Division 7.3—Application provision relating to the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Amendment (Reporting Obligations) Regulations 2018
7.09 Application—reports under the Act
The amendment of these Regulations made by Schedule 1 to the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Amendment (Reporting Obligations) Regulations 2018 applies in relation to a report required under Part 3, 3E or 3F of the Act for:
(a) the financial year beginning on 1 July 2018; and
(b) each later financial year.