The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (Charging Schemes) Regulations 2012

Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 2788

Climate Change

The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (Charging Schemes) Regulations 2012

Made

6th November 2012

Laid before Parliament

12th November 2012

Coming into force

3rd December 2012

The Secretary of State is a Minister designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) (“the Act”) in relation to the environment.

These Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the Act, and it appears to the Secretary of State that it is expedient for references to EU instruments in these Regulations to be construed as references to those instruments as amended from time to time.

Accordingly the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the Act as read with paragraph 1A of Schedule 2(3) to the Act, makes the following Regulations:

(1)

S.I. 2008/301.

(2)

1972 c. 68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and by section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7). Under section 57 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46), despite the transfer to the Scottish Ministers of functions in relation to observing and implementing obligations under Community law in respect of devolved matters, any function of the Secretary of State in relation to any matter continues to be exercisable as regards Scotland for the purposes specified in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.

(3)

Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 and amended by S.I. 2007/1388 and by section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008.