Regulation 2 Amendment of the Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003

The Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003 is amended as follows.

In section 23 (meaning of “scheme year” and “target year” in Chapter 1 of Part 1), for subsection (1) substitute the following subsection—

“(1)

In this Chapter—

• “scheme year” means—

  1. (a)

     for England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, a year beginning with 1st April in any of 2005 to 2019; and

  2. (b)

     for Wales—

     1. (i)

        the period of six months beginning with 1st October 2004, or

     2. (ii)

        a year beginning with 1st April in any of 2005 to 2019;

• “target year” means a scheme year ending with 31st March in 2010, 2013 or 2020.”.