Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

NATIONAL GREENHOUSE AND ENERGY REPORTING REGULATIONS 2008 - REG 5.02

  (1)   For subsection   26(1) of the Act, the following persons are specified:

  (a)   each of the following Commonwealth Ministers:

  (i)   the Minister responsible for administering the Act;

  (ii)   the Minister responsible for administering the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 ;

  (iii)   the Minister responsible for administering the Energy Efficiency Opportunities Act 2006 ;

  (iv)   the Treasurer;

  (aa)   the Parliamentary Secretary of a Commonwealth Minister mentioned in paragraph   (a);

  (ab)   any member of staff of a Commonwealth Minister mentioned in paragraph   (a) or a Parliamentary Secretary mentioned in paragraph   (aa);

  (b)   the Secretary of each of the following Commonwealth Departments:

  (i)   the Department administered by the Minister mentioned in subparagraph   (a)(i);

  (ii)   the Department administered by the Minister mentioned in subparagraph   (a)(ii);

  (iii)   the Department administered by the Minister mentioned in subparagraph   (a)(iii);

  (iv)   the Treasury;

  (c)   the Australian Statistician;

  (d)   the Chair of the Australian Energy Regulator;

  (da)   an official of the Regulator;

  (e)   each of the following APS employees or employees of an authority of the Commonwealth:

  (i)   the Executive Director of the Australian government agency known as the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics;

  (ii)   a member of the staff of the Australian government agency known as the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics;

  (iii)   the Executive Director of the Australian government agency known as the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics;

  (iv)   a member of the staff of Australian government agency known as the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics;

  (v)   a member of the staff of the Australian Bureau of Statistics mentioned in subsection   16(1) of the Australian Bureau of Statistics Act 1975 whose duties relate to collecting statistics in relation to greenhouse gas emissions, energy production and energy consumption;

  (vi)   a person made available to assist the Australian Energy Regulator to perform its functions under paragraph   44AAC(a) of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 ;

  (vii)   the Executive Director of the Australian government agency known as the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics;

  (viii)   a member of the staff of the Australian government agency known as the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics;

  (ix)   an APS employee in the Department mentioned in subparagraph   (b)(i) whose duties relate to developing policies, administering programs, or collecting statistics, about greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gas projects, energy consumption or energy production;

  (x)   an APS employee in a Department mentioned in subparagraph   (b)(ii) or (iii) whose duties relate to developing policies about greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gas projects or the reporting of energy production and energy consumption;

  (xi)   an APS employee in the Treasury.

Note:   For paragraph   (da), official of the Regulator is defined in the Act.

  (2)   In this regulation:

"Australian Energy Regulator" means the body established by section   44AE of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 .