Citation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2019 and come into force in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).

(2) This regulation and regulations 3(2)(g) and (l), 4(4) and (5), 15(3), 18(3) to (5), 20, 24(3), 25 and 26 come into force 21 days after the day on which these Regulations are laid.

(3) Regulation 27, which substitutes regulation 88 of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2012(1) comes into force on 1st May 2020, to the extent that it relates to the making of arrangements under paragraph (5) of regulation 88 (as substituted), but otherwise comes into force on 1st January 2021.

(4) The remainder of these Regulations come into force on 1st January 2021.

(5) These Regulations will cease to have effect and are revoked on exit day(2), and the provisions amended by the regulations referred to in paragraph (2) are deemed never to have been amended.

(2)

“Exit day” is defined in Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30) as having the same meaning as in section 20(1) to (5) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c. 16).