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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
2013-2014
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Ozone Protection and Synthetic
Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy)
Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill
2014
No. , 2014
(Environment)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Ozone Protection and
Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Act 1995,
and for related purposes
No. , 2014
Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy)
Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2014
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Contents
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Short title ........................................................................................... 1
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Commencement ................................................................................. 1
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Schedule(s) ........................................................................................ 2
Schedule 1--Amendments
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Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Act
1995
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No. , 2014
Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy)
Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2014
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A Bill for an Act to amend the Ozone Protection and
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Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Act 1995,
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and for related purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act may be cited as the Ozone Protection and Synthetic
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Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal)
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Act 2014.
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2 Commencement
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(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
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Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy)
Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2014
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column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect
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according to its terms.
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Commencement information
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Provision(s)
Commencement
Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3
and anything in
this Act not
elsewhere covered
by this table
The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.
2. Schedule 1
At the same time as Part 1 of Schedule 1 to
the Clean Energy Legislation (Carbon Tax
Repeal) Act 2014 commences.
1 July 2014
Note:
This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally
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enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of
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this Act.
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(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act.
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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it
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may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
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3 Schedule(s)
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Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
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according to its terms.
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Amendments Schedule 1
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Schedule 1
--Amendments
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Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import
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Levy) Act 1995
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1 Section 2A (heading)
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Repeal the heading, substitute:
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2A Definition
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2 Section 2A (definition of carbon unit)
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Repeal the definition.
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3 Section 2A (definition of fixed charge year)
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Repeal the definition.
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4 Section 2A (definition of flexible charge year)
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Repeal the definition.
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5 Section 2A (definition of issue)
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Repeal the definition.
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6 Section 2A (definition of per-tonne carbon price equivalent)
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Repeal the definition.
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7 Section 2A (definition of vintage year)
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Repeal the definition.
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8 Section 2B
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Repeal the section.
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9 Subsections 3A(7) and (8)
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Repeal the subsections, substitute:
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Schedule 1 Amendments
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(7) The amount of levy imposed by subsection (1) on a licensee in
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respect of the import of an SGG in a quarter is the amount worked
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out using the following formula:
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Number of tonnes
Prescribed rate
of the SGG
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where:
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prescribed rate means:
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(a) $165; or
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(b) if a lower amount is prescribed by the regulations--that
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lower amount.
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10 Subsection 3A(9)
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Omit "carbon charge component of the amount of the".
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11 Subsection 3A(10)
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Repeal the subsection.
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12 Paragraph 3A(13)(a)
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Omit "the carbon charge component of the amount of".
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13 Subsections 4A(5) and (6)
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Repeal the subsections, substitute:
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(5) The amount of levy imposed by subsection (1) on a licensee in
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respect of the import of SGG equipment during a quarter is the
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amount worked out using the following formula:
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Number of tonnes
of the SGG
Prescribed rate
contained in
the equipment
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where:
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prescribed rate means:
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(a) $165; or
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(b) if a lower amount is prescribed by the regulations--that
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lower amount.
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Amendments Schedule 1
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14 Application of amendments
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The amendments of the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse
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Gas (Import Levy) Act 1995 made by this Schedule apply in relation to
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levy for:
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(a) the quarter beginning on 1 July 2014; and
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(b) each later quarter.
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