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RENEWABLE ENERGY (FOOD PROCESSING ACTIVITIES) AMENDMENT BILL 2009
2008-2009
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
THE SENATE
Presented and read a first time
Renewable Energy (Food Processing
Activities) Amendment Bill 2009
No. , 2009
(Senator Boswell)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Renewable Energy
(Electricity) Act 2000 in connection with food
processing activities
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Contents
1 Short
title
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2 Commencement
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3 Schedule(s)
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Schedule 1--Amendment of the Renewable Energy (Electricity)
Act 2000
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Renewable Energy (Food Processing Activities) Amendment Bill 2009 No. , 2009 1
A Bill for an Act to amend the Renewable Energy
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(Electricity) Act 2000 in connection with food
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processing activities
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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 Renewable Energy (Food Processing
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Activities) Amendment Act 2009.
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2 Commencement
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This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal
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Assent.
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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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule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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Amendment of the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000 Schedule 1
Renewable Energy (Food Processing Activities) Amendment Bill 2009 No. , 2009 3
Schedule 1--Amendment of the Renewable
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Energy (Electricity) Act 2000
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1 Section 38B
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Omit "The", substitute "(1) Subject to subsection (2), the".
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2 At the end of section 38B
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Add:
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(2) The regulations must determine a food processing activity, to the
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extent that it is trade-exposed, to be an emissions-intensive
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trade-exposed activity. The partial exemption of an
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emissions-intensive trade-exposed food processing activity for
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2010 and any later year is to be calculated to be equal to 90% of
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the additional renewable source electricity acquisition obligation of
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the activity during the relevant year.
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(3) In subsection (2):
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additional renewable source electricity acquisition obligation
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means the amount of renewable source electricity that the activity
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is required to acquire under this Act after the commencement of
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the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment Act 2009 in
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addition to the amount of renewable source electricity that the
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activity was required to acquire under this Act before the
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commencement of the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment
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Act 2009.
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