Pursuant to section 161A(1) of the Climate Change Response Act 2002, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the recommendation of the Minister for Climate Change Issues and on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following regulations.

1 Title

2 Commencement

3 Principal regulations

4 Regulation 7 amended (Aluminium smelting)

Regulations

1 Title

These regulations are the Climate Change (Eligible Industrial Activities) Amendment Regulations 2014.

2 Commencement

These regulations come into force on the day after the date of their notification in the Gazette.

3 Principal regulations

These regulations amend the Climate Change (Eligible Industrial Activities) Regulations 2010 (the principal regulations).

4 Regulation 7 amended (Aluminium smelting)

Replace regulation 7(4) with:
- “(4) Despite anything in these regulations, the allocative baselines for the product specified in subclause (2) that is produced by New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Limited (company number 156735) are as follows:
  
  “(a) 2.645, which is the allocative baseline for any 2010 final allocation:
  
  “(b) 2.726, which is the allocative baseline for any 2011 final allocation:
  
  “(c) 2.062, which is the allocative baseline for any 2012 final allocation:
  
  “(d) 10.441, which is the allocative baseline for any 2013 final allocation:
  
  “(e) 5.985, which is the allocative baseline for any 2014 provisional allocation:
  
  “(f) 5.980, which is the allocative baseline for any 2015 provisional allocation.”

Michael Webster,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

These regulations, which come into force on the day after the date of their notification in the Gazette, amend the Climate Change (Eligible Industrial Activities) Regulations 2010. The amendment prescribes the allocative baselines for 2013 to 2015 for products produced by New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Limited.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 17 April 2014.

These regulations are administered by the Ministry for the Environment.

Climate Change (Eligible Industrial Activities) Amendment Regulations 2014