Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment (Solar Water Heater Eligibility) Regulations 2018 (Cth)

Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment (Solar Water Heater Eligibility) Regulations 2018

I, the Honourable Paul de Jersey AC, Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 06 December 2018

Paul de Jersey AC

Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia

By His Excellency’s Command

Angus Taylor

Minister for Energy

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment (Solar Water Heater Eligibility) Regulations 2018.

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. The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.	8 December 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000.

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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Renewable Energy (Electricity) Regulations 2001

1

After subregulation 3A(1)

Insert:

1. (1A)

   However, a device is not a solar water heater if the number of certificates that could be created over a 10‑year period for the installation of the device in any one or more of the zones, worked out in accordance with the method mentioned in subregulation 19B(1) or 19BA(3), would be more than 2,500, unless the device was entered into the Register of solar water heaters before 1 December 2018.

2

At the end of regulation 19BB

Add:

1. (3)

   The Regulator must not make a determination that would vary the information contained in the Register of solar water heaters in relation to a device entered into the Register before 1 December 2018, if the effect of the determination would be:

   1. (a)

      to increase, to more than 2,500 from a number less than or equal to 2,500, the number of certificates that could be created over a 10‑year period for the installation of the device in any one or more of the zones; or

   2. (b)

      to increase, from a number more than 2,500, the number of certificates that could be created over a 10‑year period for the installation of the device in any one or more of the zones.

1. 3

   Subregulation 20AAA(7) (paragraph (b) of the definition of contract documentation)

Omit “means”.