Climate Change (Eligible Industrial Activities) Amendment Regulations 2023

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Coat of Arms of New Zealand

Climate Change (Eligible Industrial Activities) Amendment Regulations 2023

Cindy Kiro, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 20th day of March 2023

Present:
Her Excellency the Governor-General in Council

These regulations are made under section 161A(1) of the Climate Change Response Act 2002

(a)

on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council; and

(b)

on the recommendation of the Minister of Climate Change.

Regulations

1 Title

These regulations are the Climate Change (Eligible Industrial Activities) Amendment Regulations 2023.

2 Commencement

These regulations come into force on 20 April 2023.

3 Principal regulations
4 Regulation 7 amended (Aluminium smelting)

Replace regulation 7(4)(m) and (n) with:

(m)

2.048, which is the allocative baseline for any 2022 final allocation:

(n)

2.034, which is the allocative baseline for any 2023 provisional allocation:

(o)

2.034, which is the allocative baseline for any 2024 provisional allocation.

Rachel Hayward,
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 amend the Climate Change (Eligible Industrial Activities) Regulations 2010. The amendments come into force on 20 April 2023.

The amendments relate to products that New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Limited produces by aluminium smelting (the products). The amendments—

  • replace the 2022 provisional allocative baseline for the products with a final allocative baseline; and

  • replace the 2023 provisional allocative baseline for the products; and

  • provide a 2024 provisional allocative baseline for the products.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2019.

Date of notification in Gazette: 23 March 2023.

These regulations are administered by the Ministry for the Environment.