Ozone Layer Protection Amendment Regulations 2001
Ozone Layer Protection Amendment Regulations 2001
Ozone Layer Protection Amendment Regulations 2001
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Ozone Layer Protection Amendment Regulations 2001
Note
These regulations are administered in the Ministry for the Environment.
Pursuant to Part 3 of the Ozone Layer Protection Act 1996, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, and on the recommendation of the Minister for the Environment whose recommendation has been made—
(a) after consultation by the Minister in accordance with section 17 of that Act; and
(b) after being satisfied that, after making the regulations, New Zealand will be able to give effect to its obligations under the Convention and the Protocol,—
makes the following regulations.
Contents
1 Title
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(1) These regulations are the Ozone Layer Protection Amendment Regulations 2001.
(2) In these regulations, the Ozone Layer Protection Regulations 19961 are called
“the principal regulations”
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2 Commencement
These regulations come into force on the 28th day after the date of their notification in the Gazette.
3 Conditional prohibition on importation of HCFCs
4 New regulations 9A and 9B inserted
The principal regulations are amended by inserting, after regulation 9, the following regulations:
“9A Special permits for HCFCs
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“(1) Any person may apply in writing to the Minister for a special permit for HCFCs.
“(2) The application must specify the following information:
“(a) the extent to which the applicant's entitlement (if any) to import HCFCs has been fully used or accounted for; and
“(b) evidence of the applicant's commitment to use, in a timely manner, cost-effective alternatives to HCFCs; and
“(c) evidence of the applicant's commitment to obtain, under regulation 14, a transfer of entitlement to a permit for HCFCs; and
“(d) evidence of energy efficiency or other environmental advantages (if any) from granting a special permit for HCFCs to the applicant; and
“(e) evidence of adverse economic or social impacts (if any) if the Minister does not grant a special permit for HCFCs to the applicant.
“(3) The amount of HCFCs that an applicant may import under a special permit is the ODP tonnage of HCFCs specified in the permit, reduced in accordance with the following reduction timetable:
Period Reduction % 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2009 0 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2014 75 1 January 2015 100
“9B Total allocation of HCFCs
The total ODP tonnage of HCFCs allocated each year under regulations 9 and 9A must not exceed the consumption limits under the Protocol, as modified by the reduction timetables set out in regulations 9(3) and 9A(3).”
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5 Provisions relating to permits
Diane Wilderspin,
Acting for Clerk of the Executive Council
Explanatory note
This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.
These regulations, which come into force on the 28th day after the date of their notification in the Gazette, enable the Minister to allocate special permits for HCFCs from existing entitlement that has not previously been allocated. The Minister must not grant permits that would exceed the total consumption of HCFCs allowed under the Protocol, as modified by the reduction timetables set out in the regulations, nor prevent New Zealand from meeting its target of phasing out consumption of HCFCs by 2015.
Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.
Date of notification in Gazette: 22 March 2001.
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