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Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Animal Effluent Management) Methodology Determination Variation 2025

I, Josh Wilson, Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy, make the following variation. 

Dated  21 December 2025  

Josh Wilson

Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy 

 

 

 

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Animal Effluent Management) Methodology Determination 2019

 

  This instrument is the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Animal Effluent Management) Methodology Determination Variation 2025.

  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 

The day after the registration of this instrument.  

 

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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. 

 

  1.     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. 

  This instrument is made under section 114(1) of the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011.

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

 

1  Section 17

Repeal the section, substitute:

17 Crediting period for non-biomethane projects

  For paragraph 69(3)(b) and subparagraph 70(3)(d)(ii) of the Act, if an animal effluent management project is a non-biomethane project that, during its crediting period or periods:

 (a) uses biogas to generate electricity—the period of 15 years is specified; or

 (b) uses a flare as a combustion device—the period of 15 years is specified; or

 (c) is any other project to which paragraphs (a) or (b) do not apply—the period of 12 years is specified.
 

2  Paragraph 34(d)

 Omit “non-biomethane project or a”.
 

3  Paragraph 34(d) (note)

Omit “subsections 17(3) and 17A(3)”, substitute “subsection 17A(3)”.