Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL GREENHOUSE AND ENERGY REPORTING ACT 2007 - SECT 76B

Scope

  (1)   This section applies if:

  (a)   the Minister, by written instrument given to the Chair of the Climate Change Authority, requests the Climate Change Authority to conduct a review under this section of such matters as are specified in the instrument; and

  (b)   the matters specified in the instrument are covered by subsection   (4).

Review

  (2)   The Climate Change Authority must conduct a review of those matters.

Consultation

  (3)   In conducting a review, the Climate Change Authority must make provision for public consultation.

Covered matters

  (4)   This subsection covers the operation of:

  (a)   this Act; and

  (b)   legislative instruments under this Act.

Report

  (5)   The Climate Change Authority must:

  (a)   give the Minister a report of the review; and

  (b)   as soon as practicable after giving the report to the Minister, publish the report on the Climate Change Authority's website.

  (6)   The Minister must cause copies of a report under subsection   (5) to be tabled in each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the completion of the preparation of the report.

Recommendations

  (7)   A report of a review under subsection   (2) may set out recommendations to the Commonwealth Government.

  (8)   In formulating a recommendation that the Commonwealth Government should take particular action, the Climate Change Authority must analyse the costs and benefits of that action.

  (9)   Subsection   (8) does not prevent the Climate Change Authority from taking other matters into account in formulating a recommendation.

  (10)   If a report of a review under subsection   (2) sets out one or more recommendations to the Commonwealth Government, the report must set out the Climate Change Authority's reasons for those recommendations.

Government response to recommendations

  (11)   If a report of a review under subsection   (2) sets out one or more recommendations to the Commonwealth Government:

  (a)   as soon as practicable after receiving the report, the Minister must cause to be prepared a statement setting out the Commonwealth Government's response to each of the recommendations; and

  (b)   within 6 months after receiving the report, the Minister must cause copies of the statement to be tabled in each House of the Parliament.

  (12)   The Commonwealth Government's response to the recommendations may have regard to the views of the following:

  (a)   the Climate Change Authority;

  (b)   the Regulator;

  (c)   such other persons as the Minister considers relevant.