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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Carbon Accounting Regulations 2009 No. 1257
Draft Regulations laid before Parliament under sections 28(2)(a) and 91(1) of the Climate Change Act 2008, for approval by resolution of each House of Parliament.
Draft Statutory Instruments
Climate Change
Made
2009
Coming into force
31st May 2009
A draft of this instrument has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament, in accordance with sections 28(2)(a) and 91(1) of the Climate Change Act 2008 (“the Act”)(1).
Before the draft was so laid, the Secretary of State—
(a)consulted the Scottish Ministers, the Welsh Ministers and the Department of the Environment in Northern Ireland, in accordance with section 28(4)(a) of the Act(2); and
(b)obtained and took into account the advice of the Committee on Climate Change, in accordance with section 28(5)(a) of the Act.
Accordingly the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 26(1) and (2), 27 and 90(3) of the Act, makes the following Regulations:
See the definitions of “national authority” and “the relevant Northern Ireland department” in sections 95 and 96 of the Act.
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