The Climate Change Levy (Use as Fuel) Regulations 2001

1. Introductory Text

2. 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Climate Change Levy...

3. 2. For the purposes of paragraph 18(1) of Schedule 6 to...

4. Signature

5. 1. SCHEDULE

      CLIMATE CHANGE LEVY EXEMPTION: SUPPLY OF TAXABLE COMMODITY NOT USED AS FUEL

      1. The uses specified below are, in relation to a taxable...

      2. A. ELECTROLYTIC PROCESSES

         1. 1. Electrolysis (electrowinning) used for the production of basic materials directly...

         2. 2. Use for the purification of materials (as distinct from electrowinning)....

         3. 3. Use of electrolysis for the manufacture of advanced chemicals from...

         4. 4. Production of aluminium and copper by electrolysis.

         5. 5. The refining of tin or copper from impure metals or...

         6. 6. Gold and silver electrolysis and the electrolytic dissolution of platinum...

         7. 7. Alkali earth metals, for example, sodium, potassium, lithium and calcium....

         8. 8. Chloralkali manufacture (chlorine, caustic soda and caustic potash).

         9. 9. Fluorine manufacture.

         10. 10. Electro-organic synthesis of fine organics and intermediates such as adiponitrile....

         11. 11. Electro-oxidation to produce hydrogen peroxide, persulphates, chlorates and peroxyorganic acids....

         12. 12. Sodium chlorate.

         13. 13. Potassium permanganate.

         14. 14. Potassium dichromate.

         15. 15. Manganese dioxide.

         16. 16. Cuprous oxide.

         17. 17. Sorbitol.

         18. 18. Fatty alcohols.

      3. B. STEAM REFORMATION

         1. 19. The use of natural gas and propane used in steam...

         2. 20. Natural gas used as a feedstock to produce hydrogen and...

         3. 21. Natural gas used in the production of hydrogen and carbon...

      4. C. DUAL USE FUNCTIONS

         1. 22. Coal, coke and natural gas used as a chemical reductant...

         2. 23. Coke breeze used in a sinter plant to assist in...

         3. 24. Coke injected into electric arc furnaces to control the chemistry...

         4. 25. Coke charged to electric arc furnaces to control the oxygen...

         5. 26. Coke used as a carburiser in iron casting.

         6. 27. Gases used for vacuum reduction in metal powder production and...

         7. 28. Reduction furnaces for the production of lead.

         8. 29. Reduction of chlorine.

         9. 30. Use to form reducing atmospheres, for example, in the refining...

         10. 31. Natural gas used as both a fuel and reductant in...

         11. 32. Gases used to maintain or increase the carbon content of...

         12. 33. Anthracite used as a reductant in the smelting of precious...

         13. 34. Coke as a source of carbon dioxide used in the...

      5. D. NON HEATING USES

         1. 35. Use of liquefied petroleum gas as a propellant in aerosols....

         2. 36. Methane used as a feedstock in the production of higher...

         3. 37. Natural gas used as a feedstock in the production of...

         4. 38. Use of propylene as a feedstock in the manufacture of...

         5. 39. Petroleum coke used in the manufacture of carbon and graphite...

         6. 40. Natural gas used to provide carbon in the production of...

         7. 41. Electricity used in battery formation.

         8. 42. Coke used as a resistor in electro-thermal furnaces.

         9. 43. Natural gas used in the manufacture of sodium cyanide.

6. Explanatory Note