Climate Change (Other Removal Activities) Regulations 2009 (SR 2009/284)

Climate Change (Other Removal Activities) Regulations 2009 Rt Hon Sir Peter Blanchard, Administrator of the Government Order in Council At Wellington this 28th day of September 2009 Present: His Excellency the Administrator of the Government in Council Pursuant to sections 163 and 168 of the Climate Change Response Act 2002, His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council and on the recommendation of the Minister for Climate Change Issues, makes the following regulations. Contents 1 Title 2 Commencement 3 Interpretation Threshold 4 Threshold for embedding activity Production of methanol 5 Application of regulations 6 and 7 6 Collection of information for purpose of calculating removals from producing methanol 7 Method of calculating removals from producing methanol Regulations 1 Title  These regulations are the Climate Change (Other Removal Activities) Regulations 2009. 2 Commencement  These regulations come into force on 1 January 2010. 3 Interpretation  In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,— Act means the Climate Change Response Act 2002 embedding activity means the activity listed in subpart 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 4 of the Act. Threshold 4 Threshold for embedding activity  The threshold for the embedding activity is that the embedding of the substance results in at least 5 000 tonnes of removals in a year. Production of methanol 5 Application of regulations 6 and 7  A person must comply with regulations 6 and 7 if— o (a) the person, in any year, is a participant under section 54(1)(b) of the Act in relation to the embedding activity; and o (b) the embedding activity carried out by the person is producing methanol. 6 Collection of information for purpose of calculating removals from producing methanol  Information must be collected about— o (a) the total number of tonnes of methanol produced by the person in the year; and o (b) if the person wishes to submit a return for a period other than a year under section 66 of the Act, the total number of tonnes of methanol produced by the person in the other period. 7 Method of calculating removals from producing methanol  Removals in relation to methanol produced by the person in the year or other period covered by an emissions return must be calculated in accordance with the following formula: R = A × 1.375 where— A is the total number of tonnes of methanol produced by the person in the year or other period covered by the emissions return, as recorded under regulation 6(a) or (b) R is the removals in tonnes from the production of methanol for the year or other period covered by the emissions return. Michael Webster, for Clerk of the Executive Council. Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989. Date of notification in Gazette: 1 October 2009. These regulations are administered by the Ministry for the Environment.