Scottish Statutory Instruments
2021 No. 318
Climate Change
The Carbon Accounting Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021
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 and all other powers enabling them to do so.
2009 asp 12.

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

Amendment of the Carbon Accounting Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2010
2. (1) The Carbon Accounting Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2010 are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).
S.S.I. 2010/216, relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2015/189.
(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,
Article 3 was substituted by S.I. 2021/511.”.

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).