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The Carbon Accounting Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021

S.S.I. 2021/318 · Made 14 September 2021

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Climate Change

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 2009f1 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

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Footnotes

f1

2009 asp 12.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the Carbon Accounting Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2010
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

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

2Amendment of the Carbon Accounting Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2010

(1)

The Carbon Accounting Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2010f1 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 Regulationf2,”.

Signature

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).