Scottish Statutory Instruments
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 2009(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Carbon Accounting Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021 and come into force on 10 November 2021.
2.—(1) The Carbon Accounting Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2010(2) 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 Regulation(3),”.
MICHAEL MATHESON
A member of the Scottish Government
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
14th September 2021
(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).
S.S.I. 2010/216, relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2015/189.
Article 3 was substituted by S.I. 2021/511.