The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2023

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 2021/1455 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2023 No. 850

Climate Change

The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2023

Made

19th July 2023

Laid before Parliament

21st July 2023

Laid before the Northern Ireland Assembly

21st July 2023

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

21st July 2023

Laid before Senedd Cymru

21st July 2023

Coming into force

1st January 2024

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 19th day of July 2023

Present,

The King’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

This Order is made in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 44, 54 and 90(3) of, and Schedule 2 and paragraph 9 of Schedule 3 to, the Climate Change Act 2008(1).

In accordance with paragraph 10 of Schedule 3 to that Act, before the recommendation to His Majesty in Council to make this Order was made—

(a)the advice of the Committee on Climate Change was obtained and taken into account; and

(b)such persons likely to be affected by the Order as the Secretary of State, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, the Scottish Ministers and the Welsh Ministers considered appropriate were consulted.

Accordingly, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, makes the following Order:

(1)

2008 c. 27. The amendment made to paragraph 30 of Schedule 2 of that Act by S.I. 2022/500 is not relevant to this Order.