Customs Legislation Amendment (Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2017 (Cth)

Customs Legislation Amendment (Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2017

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 14 December 2017

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Peter Dutton

Minister for Immigration and Border Protection

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Customs Legislation Amendment (Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2017.

2Commencement

1. (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. Sections 1 to 4 and anything in this instrument not elsewhere covered by this table	The day after this instrument is registered.	19 December 2017
2. Schedule 1, Part 1	The day after this instrument is registered.	19 December 2017
3. Schedule 1, items 9 and 10	The later of: (a) immediately after the commencement of the provisions covered by table item 2; and (b) at the same time as the provisions covered by table item 4.	1 January 2018
4. Schedule 1, items 11 to 16	The later of: (a) the day after this instrument is registered; and (b) 1 January 2018.	1 January 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.

1. (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.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Customs Act 1901.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Part 1Amendments commencing day after registration

Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations 1958

1

Subregulation 2(1) (definition of SGG)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

SGG or synthetic greenhouse gas means any of the following:

1. (a)

   an HFC;

2. (c)

   a PFC;

3. (d)

   sulfur hexafluoride.

2

Subregulation 2(1)

Insert:

sulfur hexafluoride means the substance referred to in Part 11 of Schedule 15, whether existing alone or in a mixture.

3

Part 9 of Schedule 15 (table item 11)

Repeal the item.

4

Part 11 of Schedule 15 (table item 1)

Repeal the item, substitute:

1 Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6)

Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956

5

Subregulation 2(1)

Insert:

sulfur hexafluoride means the substance referred to in Part 11 of Schedule 10, whether existing alone or in a mixture.

6

Subregulation 5K(6)

Omit “the conditions in paragraph 13(6A)(b) or (c) of the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989 are satisfied”, substitute “subsection 13(5) or (6) of the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989 applies”.

7

Part 9 of Schedule 10 (table item 11)

Repeal the item.

8

Part 11 of Schedule 10 (table item 1)

Repeal the item, substitute:

1 Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6)

Part 2Amendments with other commencements

Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations 1958

9

Subregulation 2(1)

Insert:

nitrogen trifluoride means the substance referred to in Part 12 of Schedule 15, whether existing alone or in a mixture.

1. 10

   Subregulation 2(1) (after paragraph (a) of the definition of SGG)

   Insert:

   1. (b)

      nitrogen trifluoride;

11

Part 10 of Schedule 15 (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

Column 1

Item

Column 2

Substance

1

CF4 (PFC‑14)

2

C2 F6 (PFC‑116)

3

C3 F8 (PFC‑218)

4

C4 F10 (PFC‑3‑1‑10)

5

c‑C4 F8 (PFC‑318)

6

C5 F12 (PFC‑4‑1‑12)

7

C6 F14 (PFC‑5‑1‑14)

8

C10 F18 (PFC‑9‑1‑18)

12

At the end of Schedule 15

Add:

Part 12—Nitrogen trifluoride

Column 1

Item

Column 2

Substance

1

Nitrogen trifluoride (NF3)

Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956

13

Subregulation 2(1)

Insert:

nitrogen trifluoride means the substance referred to in Part 12 of Schedule 10, whether existing alone or in a mixture.

14

Subregulation 2(1) (definition of SGG)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

SGG or synthetic greenhouse gas means any of the following:

1. (a)

   an HFC;

2. (b)

   nitrogen trifluoride;

3. (c)

   a PFC;

4. (d)

   sulfur hexafluoride.

15

Part 10 of Schedule 10 (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

Column 1

Item

Column 2

Substance

1

CF4 (PFC‑14)

2

C2 F6 (PFC‑116)

3

C3 F8 (PFC‑218)

4

C4 F10 (PFC‑3‑1‑10)

5

c‑C4 F8 (PFC‑318)

6

C5 F12 (PFC‑4‑1‑12)

7

C6 F14 (PFC‑5‑1‑14)

8

C10 F18 (PFC‑9‑1‑18)

16

At the end of Schedule 10

Add:

Part 12—Nitrogen trifluoride

Column 1

Item

Column 2

Substance

1

Nitrogen trifluoride (NF3)