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[F4(1)Each of the [F5charging authorities] may require the payment to it of such charges as may from time to time be prescribed—
[F6(a)as a means of recovering costs incurred by it in performing functions conferred under or by virtue of—
(i)the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/925);
(ii)the Aviation Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1996);
(iii)the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/3038).]
(b)in respect of—
(i)an application to open an account that, under the [F7Registries Regulation 2013], is required to be held in [F8the Kyoto Protocol Registry];
(ii)the subsistence of such an account;
(iii)the updating of information provided to the Agency in relation to such an account;
and in this section “prescribed” means specified in, or determined under, a scheme (in this section referred to as a “charging scheme”) made under this section by the [F9charging authority] in question.
(1A)A charging scheme may—
(a)make different provision for different cases, including different provision in relation to different persons, circumstances or localities;
(b)provide for the times at which, and the manner in which, the charges prescribed by the scheme are to be paid;
(c)revoke or amend any previous charging scheme;
(d)contain supplemental, incidental, consequential or transitional provision for the purposes of the scheme.
(1B)A charging scheme must specify, in relation to any charge prescribed by the scheme, the description of person who is liable to pay the charge.
(1C)A [F10charging authority] may not make a charging scheme unless the provisions of the scheme have been approved by the Secretary of State [F11, the Welsh Ministers] or the Scottish Ministers under section 42.]
(2)If the Agency—
(a)proposes to prescribe [F12charges under subsection (1)(b)] or to amend any provision for such charges included in a charging scheme, and
(b)notifies [F13another charging authority] of its proposals,
the Agency and [F14that other charging authority] shall each include in a charging scheme (subject to approval by the Secretary of State [F15, the Welsh Ministers] [F16or the Scottish Ministers under section 42]) provision giving effect to the proposals.
(3)If the Agency revises any proposals of which it has given notification under subsection (2) above, and notifies [F17the relevant charging authority] accordingly, the obligations imposed by that subsection apply in relation to the proposals as revised.
(4)A notification under subsection (2) or (3) above shall include details of the amount of the proposed charges.
(5)[F18The Natural Resources Body for Wales and] SEPA shall pass on to the Agency any [F19charges under subsection (1)(b)] that [F20they receive].
(6)A charging scheme made by the Agency may require the payment to the Agency of such charges as may from time to time be prescribed in respect of—
[F21(a)an application to open an account in [F22the Kyoto Protocol Registry], other than one that under the [F23Registries Regulation 2013] is required to be held in that registry;]
(b)the subsistence of such an account;
(c)the updating of information provided to the Agency in relation to such an account.
[F24(7)In this section—
“charging authority” means the Agency, the Natural Resources Body for Wales or SEPA;
“the Registries Regulation 2013” means Commission Regulation (EU) No 389/2013 establishing a Union Registry pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Decisions No 290/2004/EC and No 406/2009/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Commission Regulations (EU) No 920/2010 and No 1193/2011, as amended from time to time; and
[F25“the Kyoto Protocol Registry” means the registry administered on behalf of the United Kingdom for the purposes of its obligations as a party to the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.]]]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 41A inserted (21.4.2005) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/925), Sch. 6 para. 1(2) (with reg. 3)
F2Words in s. 41A heading substituted (1.1.2012) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (Registries and Fees etc.) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2911), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 23(a) (with Sch. para ss. 33-36)
F3Words in s. 41A heading substituted (3.12.2012) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (Charging Schemes) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2788), regs. 1, 5(2)
F4Ss. 41A(1)-(1C) substituted for s. 41A(1) (3.12.2012) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (Charging Schemes) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2788), regs. 1, 5(3)
F5Words in s. 41A(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Consequential Provision) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1821), arts. 1(2), 17(2)(a) (with art. 24)
F6S. 41A(1)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environment (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/458), regs. 1(1), 3(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F7Words in s. 41A(1)(b)(i) substituted (31.1.2014) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme and National Emissions Inventory (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3135), regs. 1, 13(2)
F8Words in s. 41A(1)(b)(i) substituted (1.5.2021) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Kyoto Protocol Registry) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/511), regs. 1, 11(a)
F9Words in s. 41A(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Consequential Provision) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1821), arts. 1(2), 17(2)(b) (with art. 24)
F10Words in s. 41A(1C) substituted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Consequential Provision) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1821), arts. 1(2), 17(3)(a) (with art. 24)
F11Words in s. 41A(1C) inserted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Consequential Provision) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1821), arts. 1(2), 17(3)(b) (with art. 24)
F12Words in s. 41A(2) substituted (3.12.2012) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (Charging Schemes) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2788), regs. 1, 5(4)(a)
F13Words in s. 41A(2)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Consequential Provision) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1821), arts. 1(2), 17(4)(a) (with art. 24)
F14Words in s. 41A(2) substituted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Consequential Provision) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1821), arts. 1(2), 17(4)(b)(i) (with art. 24)
F15Words in s. 41A(2) inserted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Consequential Provision) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1821), arts. 1(2), 17(4)(b)(ii) (with art. 24)
F16Words in s. 41A(2) substituted (3.12.2012) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (Charging Schemes) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2788), regs. 1, 5(4)(b)
F17Words in s. 41A(3) substituted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Consequential Provision) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1821), arts. 1(2), 17(5) (with art. 24)
F18Words in s. 41A(5) inserted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Consequential Provision) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1821), arts. 1(2), 17(6)(a) (with art. 24)
F19Words in s. 41A(5) substituted (3.12.2012) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (Charging Schemes) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2788), regs. 1, 5(5)
F20Words in s. 41A(5) substituted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Consequential Provision) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1821), arts. 1(2), 17(6)(b) (with art. 24)
F21S. 41A(6)(a) substituted (3.12.2012) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (Charging Schemes) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2788), regs. 1, 5(6)
F22Words in s. 41A(6)(a) substituted (1.5.2021) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Kyoto Protocol Registry) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/511), regs. 1, 11(b)
F23Words in s. 41A(6)(a) substituted (31.1.2014) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme and National Emissions Inventory (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3135), regs. 1, 13(2)
F24S. 41A(7) substituted (31.1.2014) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme and National Emissions Inventory (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3135), regs. 1, 13(3)
F25Words in s. 41A(7) substituted (1.5.2021) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Kyoto Protocol Registry) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/511), regs. 1, 11(c)
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