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RENEWABLE ENERGY (ELECTRICITY) AMENDMENT BILL 2006

                                 2004-2005-2006



       THE PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA



                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES



    RENEWABLE ENERGY (ELECTRICITY) AMENDMENT BILL 2006


            SUPPLEMENTARY EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM


              Amendments to be Moved on Behalf of the Government


     (Circulated by authority of the Minister for the Environment and Heritage,
                       Senator the Honourable Ian Campbell)



EXPLANATION OF AMENDMENT 1

1. This amendment will insert a new subsection 30D(4A) into the Renewable Energy
   (Electricity) Amendment Bill 2006 as introduced. The purpose of the proposed
   new subsection 30D(4) will provide a regulation making power to specify that the
   Renewable Energy Regulator must have regard to any matter prescribed by the
   regulations in considering whether or not to suspend the accreditation of a power
   station under proposed new section 30D. Proposed new section 30D gives the
   Renewable Energy Regulator the power to suspend such an accreditation when the
   Regulator determines that the power station is involved in a gaming arrangement.