Mark Butler (Port Adelaide, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I move amendments (1) to (4), as circulated in my name, together:

(1) Title, page 1 (lines 2 and 3), omit "and the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Regulations 2001".

(2) Clause 3, page 2 (line 11), omit "(1)".

(3) Clause 3, page 2 (lines 15 to 17), omit subclause (2).

(4) Schedule 1, Part 4, page 13 (line 1) to page 15 (line 2), omit the Part, substitute:

Part 4—Wood waste

Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000

1 At the end of section 17

  Add:

      Wood waste

  (6) Despite anything in regulations made under subsection (3), wood waste does not include waste, or a product or bi-product, that is or is derived from biomass from a native forest.

I will not detain the House. I spoke to them in my contribution to the debate on those amendments.

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