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AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL REGISTRY OF EMISSIONS UNITS ACT 2011 - SECT 11

Opening of Registry accounts--identification procedures

  (1)   The regulations may prescribe identification procedures that must be carried out by the Regulator before the Regulator opens a Registry account in the name of the person.

  (2)   The regulations may declare that a specified number is a transaction limit for the purposes of this section.

  (3)   The regulations may make provision for identifying Registry accounts that are subject to a transaction limit.

  (4)   An identification procedure prescribed under regulations made for the purposes of subsection   (1):

  (a)   may be expressed to apply to Registry accounts that are subject to a transaction limit; or

  (b)   may be expressed to apply to Registry accounts that are not subject to a transaction limit.

  (5)   The regulations may provide that, if a Registry account is subject to a particular transaction limit, the Regulator must not:

  (a)   issue to the account any:

  (i)   Australian carbon credit units; or

  (ii)   safeguard mechanism credit units; or

  (b)   comply with an instruction to transfer units to the account;

if doing so would result in the account having entries for a number of units that exceeds the transaction limit.


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