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The Carbon Accounting Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021

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Scottish Statutory Instruments

2021 No. 318

Climate Change

The Carbon Accounting Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021

Made

14th September 2021

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

15th September 2021

Coming into force

10th November 2021

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 20(1) of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Carbon Accounting Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021 and come into force on 10 November 2021.

Amendment of the Carbon Accounting Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2010

2.—(1) The Carbon Accounting Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2010(2) are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), for the definition of “registry administrator” substitute—

“registry administrator” means the national administrator for the UK Registry specified in Article 3(2)(k) of the Registries Regulation(3),.

MICHAEL MATHESON

A member of the Scottish Government

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

14th September 2021

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Carbon Accounting Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2010 (“the 2010 Regulations”). The 2010 Regulations make provision about carbon units and carbon accounting for the purposes of Part 1 of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009.

These Regulations amend the definition of “registry administrator” in regulation 2 of the 2010 Regulations in consequence of amendments made by regulation 4(2) of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Kyoto Protocol Registry) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/511).

(2)

S.S.I. 2010/216, relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2015/189.

(3)

Article 3 was substituted by S.I. 2021/511.

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