Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Amendment Regulation 2015 (Cth)

Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Amendment Regulation 2015

Select Legislative Instrument No. 181, 2015

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 regulation.

Dated 12 November 2015

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Greg Hunt

Minister for the Environment

Contents

1............ Name.................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority............................................................................................ 1

4............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                            3

Part 1—Amendments commencing day after registration                   3

Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Regulations 1995         3

Part 2—Amendments commencing 1 July 2015                                   4

Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Regulations 1995         4

1Name

This is the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Amendment Regulation 2015.

2Commencement

(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.	18 November 2015
2.  Schedule 1, Part 1	The day after this instrument is registered.	18 November 2015
3.  Schedule 1, Part 2	1 July 2015.	1 July 2015

Note:This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989.

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 1—Amendments commencing day after registration

Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Regulations 1995

1  Regulation 200 (at the end of the definition of Non‑QPS Exemption List)

Add:

             ; and (l)  for the year 2016—the document called Exemption List for Non‑QPS Applications of Methyl Bromide in 2016, published by the Department, as in force on 1 January 2016.

2  Subregulation 213(6) (at the end of the definition of Non‑QPS Intermediate Supplier List)

Add:

             ; and (l)  for the year 2016—the document called Intermediate Supplier List for Non‑QPS Applications of Methyl Bromide in 2016, published by the Department, as in force on 1 January 2016.

Part 2—Amendments commencing 1 July 2015

Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Regulations 1995

3  After paragraph 73(1)(aa)

Insert:

(ab) HCFC pre‑charged refrigeration equipment imported by a person, so long as the importation of the equipment by the person satisfies the conditions mentioned in paragraph 13(6A)(c) of the Act;