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TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Regulation Page
Part 1—Preliminary 1
1 Objectives 1
2 Authorising provision 2
3 Commencement 2
4 Definitions 2
Part 2—Project-Based Activities 5
5 Prescribed activity 5
6 Scoping approval 5
7 Project plan approval 9
8 Scoping approval and project plan approval variations 12
9 Cancel and relinquish 13
Part 3—Methods and variables 14
10 Methods and variables 14
11 Project impact report 14
12 When a certificate may not be created 16
13 Time at which prescribed activity is undertaken and reduction in
greenhouse gas emissions occurs 17
14 Conditions and circumstances under which a certificate cannot
be created 17
Part 4—ESC functions 18
15 Matters to be specified by the ESC 18
16 Public register of approved project plans 20
17 Approved Measurement and Verification Professional 21
Part 5—Secretary's functions 23
18 Matters to be specified by the Secretary 23
Part 6—Consequential and related amendments to the Victorian
Energy Efficiency Target Regulations 2008 26
19 Principal Regulations 26
20 Certificate not to be created more than once for same product or
activity in residential premises 26
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21 Certificate not to be created more than once for same product
installed in business or non-residential premises 26
22 Prescribed greenhouse gas scheme 27
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Endnotes 29
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STATUTORY RULES 2017
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Victorian Energy Efficiency Target Act 2007
Victorian Energy Efficiency Target (Project-Based
Activities) Regulations 2017
The Governor in Council makes the following Regulations:
Dated: 14 June 2017
Responsible Minister:
LILY D'AMBROSIO
Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change
ANDREW ROBINSON
Clerk of the Executive Council
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Objectives
The objectives of these Regulations are to—
(a) prescribe activities that are undertaken as
part of a project that will reduce greenhouse
gas emissions; and
(b) prescribe the requirements by which a
proponent of a project may obtain scoping
and project plan approval for a project; and
(c) entitle a project that has a scoping and
project plan approval to create certificates
following approval, by the ESC, of a project
impact report; and
(d) make provision in relation to the approval of
Measurement and Verification Professionals;
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(e) provide for the register of approved project
plans and approved Measurement and
Verification Professionals; and
(f) make consequential and related amendments
to the Victorian Energy Efficiency Target
Regulations 2008; and
(g) prescribe other matters for the purposes of
the Victorian Energy Efficiency Target
Act 2007.
2 Authorising provision
These Regulations are made under section 75
of the Victorian Energy Efficiency Target
Act 2007.
3 Commencement
These Regulations come into operation on
19 June 2017.
4 Definitions
In these Regulations—
approved Measurement and Verification
Professional means a person approved
under regulation 17 that is on the register
maintained by the ESC;
Association of Energy Engineers, is a non-profit
professional society located in Atlanta,
Georgia of the United States of America
with a Taxpayer Identification Number of
58-1306354 issued by the Internal Revenue
Service of the United States of America;
Building Code means the Building Code of
Australia within the meaning of section 3(1)
of the Building Act 1993;
Department means the Department of
Environment, Land, Water and Planning;
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energy consuming product means a product
that consumes electricity, gas or renewable
energy;
implementation start time, in relation to a
project, means the date, and optionally
the time, normal operations are capable
of commencing after all changes to be
implemented by the project, including any
testing and commissioning, are completed;
native forest has the same meaning as in the
Code of Practice for Timber Production
2014 published by the Department of
Environment and Primary Industries
under Part 5 of the Conservation, Forests
and Lands Act 1987;
renewable energy means an energy source that
is—
(a) hydro;
(b) wave;
(c) tide;
(d) ocean;
(e) wind;
(f) solar;
(g) geothermal-aquifer;
(h) hot dry rock;
(i) energy crops;
(j) wood waste unless it is from a native
forest;
(k) wood waste from a native forest
provided it is a waste product from the
construction of buildings or furniture,
including timber off-cuts and timber
from demolished buildings;
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(l) agricultural waste;
(m) waste from processing of agricultural
products;
(n) food waste;
(o) food processing waste;
(p) bagasse;
(q) black liquor;
(r) biomass-based components of
municipal solid waste;
(s) landfill gas;
(t) sewage gas and biomass-based
components of sewage—
but does not include an energy source that
is—
(a) fossil fuels; or
(b) materials or waste products derived
from fossil fuels;
Secretary means Secretary to the Department;
service means an output or amenity, such as
heating, cooling, steam, transportation,
compressed air, water pumping and lighting,
that is produced by an energy-consuming
system.
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5 Prescribed activity
For the purposes of section 15 of the Act the
following activities are prescribed—
undertaking, in accordance with a scoping
approval and a project plan approval, the
project that is described in the applications
for the scoping approval and project plan
approval if it will result in a reduction in
greenhouse gas emissions that would not
otherwise have occurred if the project was
not undertaken.
6 Scoping approval
(1) An accredited person may apply to the ESC for a
scoping approval in respect of a project.
(2) The application must be—
(a) in the manner and form and contain
information and documents specified by the
ESC under regulation 15(1)(a); and
(b) accompanied by any relevant fee fixed under
section 73 of the Act.
(3) The following information must be provided with
an application for scoping approval—
(a) the name and address of the accredited
person;
(b) the address of the premises where the project
will be undertaken;
(c) the indicative date when the project will
commence;
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(d) a description of the kinds of activities to be
undertaken as part of the project, including
the following—
(i) the energy consuming products to be
installed or removed or modified;
(ii) modifications to the way an existing
energy consuming product is used;
(iii) products to be installed or removed that
affect the energy consumption of an
energy consuming product;
(iv) the service or services affected;
(v) energy sources affected, such as
electricity, natural gas, LPG or
renewable;
(vi) if any lighting equipment is removed in
carrying out the activity, an undertaking
in the form specified by the ESC under
regulation 15(1)(a)(i) that the removed
equipment will be decommissioned;
(vii) if any new lighting equipment is to be
installed in carrying out the activity, an
undertaking in the form specified by the
ESC under regulation 15(1)(a)(ii) that
the equipment is listed on the register
kept by the ESC in accordance with
regulation 9 of the Victorian Energy
Efficiency Target Regulations 2008;
(e) a nominated project name;
(f) an undertaking in the form specified by
the ESC under regulation 15(1)(a)(iii) that
the project is not undertaken to comply
with energy efficiency or greenhouse gas
emissions requirements in any minimum
standard or mandatory requirement under
any legislation.
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(4) The ESC may grant or refuse a scoping approval.
(5) The ESC may not grant a scoping approval
if work for the purposes of the project has
commenced at the premises.
(6) For the purposes of determining whether work for
the purposes of the project has commenced, the
ESC may disregard the following activities that
have been, or are being, undertaken in relation to
the project—
(a) conducting a feasibility study for the project;
(b) planning or designing the project;
(c) obtaining regulatory approvals for the
project;
(d) obtaining consents relating to the project;
(e) obtaining advice relating to the project;
(f) conducting negotiations relating to the
project;
(g) measurement or analysis to establish a
baseline energy model as defined by the
Secretary under regulation 18(1)(a) for
the project, including the installation or
modification of metering equipment;
(h) an activity required to support the
application for scoping approval;
(i) an activity that is ancillary or incidental
to any of the above activities.
(7) For the purposes of subregulation (5), the
following activities are examples of when work
has commenced—
(a) installing or modifying an asset, other than
for the purposes of metering, that is for use
wholly or mainly for the purposes of the
project;
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(b) commencing construction work for the
purposes of the project.
(8) The ESC may grant a scoping approval if it is
satisfied that—
(a) the project will be undertaken at—
(i) a business premises or a non-residential
premises; or
(ii) a building classified under Part A3
of the Building Code as Class 2 or
Class 3 if the project does not relate
to services supplied exclusively to a
sole-occupancy; and
(b) the project described in the application, if
undertaken, will reduce greenhouse gas
emissions; and
(c) the project does not propose to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions by reducing
production capacity or by reducing service
levels, except if service levels are being
reduced to correct over-servicing.
(9) The ESC may require that an applicant for a
scoping approval—
(a) provide further information in relation to the
application; or
(b) facilitate an inspection, by a staff member
of the ESC or a representative of the ESC
nominated by the ESC, of the premises
where the project will be undertaken.
(10) The ESC must determine an application for a
scoping approval—
(a) within the period of 60 days after the day
the ESC receives the application; or
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(b) if, before the end of that period, the ESC
requires the applicant to give further
information in relation to the application,
within the period of 60 days after the
applicant gave the ESC the information.
(11) As soon as practicable after granting or refusing
the application, the ESC must notify the applicant
in writing of the ESC's decision.
7 Project plan approval
(1) An accredited person may apply to the ESC for a
project plan approval in respect of a project that
is—
(a) the subject of a current scoping approval; or
(b) the subject of an application for a scoping
approval.
Note
Applications for scoping and project plan approval may be
made at the same time.
(2) The application must be—
(a) in the manner and form and contain
information and documents specified by the
ESC under regulation 15(1)(b); and
(b) accompanied by any relevant fee fixed under
section 73 of the Act.
(3) The following information must be provided with
an application—
(a) a cost estimate for the project;
(b) an estimate of the carbon dioxide equivalent
of greenhouse gases to be reduced by the
project;
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(c) a measurement and verification plan—
(i) that is consistent with the Principles
in Chapter 4 of EVO 10000—1:2014
International Performance
Measurement and Verification
Protocol (IPMVP) Core Concepts
published by the Efficiency Valuation
Organisation in June 2014; and
(ii) in the manner and form and contain
information and documents specified
by the ESC under regulation 15(1)(b);
(d) the methods intended to be used to calculate
the reduction in greenhouse gases, where the
method is specified by the Secretary under
regulation 18(1)(b);
(e) a risk management plan which—
(i) specifies the responsibilities,
accountabilities and authority levels of
personnel with respect to the various
aspects of the project; and
(ii) describes the relevant skills,
qualifications and experience required
for each project role to be undertaken;
(f) indicative timings for the project, including
the following—
(i) the commencement of project works;
(ii) the implementation start time;
(iii) the baseline period start and end date
as defined by the Secretary under
regulation 18(1)(c);
(iv) the operating period start and end date
(if any) as each date is defined by the
Secretary under regulation 18(1)(d);
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(v) if the implementation is to be carried
out in stages, an indicative schedule
of works to be implemented by the
project;
(vi) the completion date of the project.
(4) The ESC must determine an application for a
project plan approval—
(a) within the period of 180 days after the day
the ESC receives the application; or
(b) if, before the end of that period, the ESC
requires the applicant to give further
information in relation to the application,
within the period of 180 days after the
applicant gave the ESC the information.
(5) The ESC may grant or refuse a project plan
approval.
(6) The ESC must not grant a project plan approval—
(a) in respect of a project unless there is also a
scoping approval for that project; or
(b) in respect of a project where the application
for project plan approval was received after
the implementation start time of the project.
(7) The ESC may grant a project plan approval if it is
satisfied that the application has demonstrated that
the applicant holds or can access the knowledge,
skills or capacity to deliver the project described
in the application.
(8) As soon as practicable after granting or refusing
the application, the ESC must notify the applicant
in writing of the ESC's decision.
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8 Scoping approval and project plan approval
variations
(1) An accredited person may apply to vary—
(a) a scoping approval; or
(b) a project plan approval; or
(c) both the scoping approval and the project
plan approval.
(2) The application must be—
(a) in the manner and form and contain
information and documents specified by the
ESC under regulation 15(1)(c); and
(b) accompanied by any relevant fee fixed under
section 73 of the Act.
(3) The ESC may approve an application under
subregulation (1) if it is satisfied as to the
following—
(a) the address of the premises where the project
will be undertaken has not changed;
(b) the description of the activities to be
undertaken as part of the project included
in the scoping approval application under
regulation 6(3)(d)(i), (ii) and (iii) has not
substantially changed;
(c) the scope of the service or services as
described under regulation 6(3)(d)(iv) has
not expanded;
(d) the scope of the energy sources as
described under regulation 6(3)(d)(v) has
not expanded;
(e) the application has demonstrated that the
applicant holds or can access the knowledge,
skills or capacity to deliver the project
described in the application.
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(4) As soon as practicable after granting or refusing
the application, the ESC must notify the applicant
in writing of the ESC's decision.
9 Cancel and relinquish
(1) The ESC may cancel a project plan approval, by
instrument in writing, following 28 days' written
notice of the ESC's intention to cancel the
approval.
(2) The notice must request reasons why the approval
should not be cancelled.
(3) The ESC may cancel the approval at the end
of the 28 days if the ESC is satisfied that there
has been an unreasonable delay in the work
commencing to undertake the activities specified
in the application for project plan approval.
(4) An accredited person may apply in writing to
relinquish a project plan approval.
(5) As soon as practicable after granting or refusing
the application, the ESC must notify the applicant
in writing of the ESC's decision.
(6) A project plan that has been cancelled or
relinquished cannot be varied.
(7) The ESC must update the register of approved
project plans if the project plan approval has been
cancelled or relinquished.
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Part 3—Methods and variables
10 Methods and variables
For the purposes of section 18(2) of the Act, the
methods and variables to be used to calculate the
carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gases to
be reduced by the prescribed activity are specified
in a project impact report approved by the ESC
under regulation 11.
11 Project impact report
(1) An accredited person that has received project
plan approval may apply to the ESC for approval
of a project impact report.
(2) An application must be—
(a) in the manner and form and contain
information and documents specified by
the ESC under regulation 15(1)(f); and
(b) accompanied by any relevant fee fixed
under section 73 of the Act.
(3) The following information must be provided with
an application—
(a) a project impact report that—
(i) complies with the regulations and
with the ESC Guidelines; and
(ii) is consistent with the measurement
and verification plan submitted with
the project plan approval; and
(iii) is prepared in accordance with the
matters specified by the Secretary
under regulation 18(1)(e); and
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(iv) includes the information, methods,
variables and calculations as specified
by the Secretary under regulation
18(1)(f);
(b) a report from an approved Measurement and
Verification Professional that advises that the
project impact report—
(i) complies with the regulations and
with the ESC Guidelines; and
(ii) is consistent with the measurement
and verification plan submitted with
the project plan approval; and
(iii) is prepared in accordance with the
matters specified by the Secretary
under regulation 18(1)(e); and
(iv) includes the information, methods,
variables and calculations as specified
by the Secretary under regulation
18(1)(f);
(c) a declaration from the approved
Measurement and Verification Professional
that they are independent from the accredited
person and from the project, in accordance
with the requirements specified by the ESC
under regulation 15(1)(h);
(d) if any lighting equipment was removed in
carrying out the project, evidence that the
removed lighting equipment was
decommissioned;
(e) if any lighting equipment was installed in
carrying out the project, evidence that the
lighting equipment at the time the equipment
was installed was listed on the register kept
by the ESC in accordance with regulation 9
of the Victorian Energy Efficiency Target
Regulations 2008.
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(4) The ESC may require the accredited person to
provide further information in relation to the
application or to facilitate an inspection of the
premises where the project is undertaken.
(5) The ESC must determine an application for
approval of a project impact report—
(a) within the period of 120 days after the day
the ESC receives the application; or
(b) if, before the end of that period, the
ESC requires the applicant to give further
information in relation to the application,
within the period of 120 days after the day
the applicant gave the ESC the information.
(6) The ESC may approve a project impact report
if it is satisfied that, having regard to the report
from an approved Measurement and Verification
Professional, the project impact report
demonstrates a reasonably accurate and reliable
estimate of greenhouse gas emission reduction.
(7) If the ESC believes on reasonable grounds that
the accredited person has breached an undertaking
made under either regulation 6(3)(d)(vi) or (vii),
the ESC must issue the accredited person with a
notice.
(8) Despite subregulation (6), the ESC may not
approve a project impact report if it has issued a
notice under subregulation (7).
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For the purposes of section 17(3)(d) of the Act,
an accredited person cannot create a certificate
with respect to a prescribed activity if the ESC
has issued a notice under regulation 11(7) that an
undertaking was breached.
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13 Time at which prescribed activity is undertaken and
reduction in greenhouse gas emissions occurs
(1) For the purposes of section 17(1) of the Act, a
prescribed activity is to be taken to have been
undertaken at the time specified by the Secretary
under regulation 18.
(2) For the purposes of section 17(2) of the Act, the
reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is to be
taken to have occurred at the time specified by
the Secretary under regulation 18.
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certificate cannot be created
For the purposes of section 17(3)(d) of the Act—
(a) the Secretary may specify, under
regulation 18, the conditions and
circumstances under which a
certificate cannot be created; and
(b) despite paragraph (a), a certificate cannot
be created in respect of a reduction in
greenhouse gas emissions if a valid
certificate has previously been created
in respect of that reduction.
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15 Matters to be specified by the ESC
(1) The ESC may specify the following—
(a) the manner and form and information and
documents to be included in an application
for a scoping approval, including the form of
an undertaking regarding the following—
(i) lighting equipment to be removed and
decommissioned;
(ii) lighting equipment to be installed that
is listed on the register kept by the ESC
in accordance with regulation 9 of the
Victorian Energy Efficiency Target
Regulations 2008;
(iii) that the project is not undertaken
to comply with energy efficiency or
greenhouse gas emissions requirements
in any minimum standard or mandatory
requirement under any legislation;
(b) the manner and form and information and
documents to be included in an application
for a project plan approval, including the
manner and form of a measurement and
verification plan;
(c) the manner and form and information and
documents to be included in an application
for a variation to a scoping approval or a
project plan approval or both a scoping
approval and a project plan approval;
(d) the requirements regarding competence
and experience that must be met before a
person may be registered as an approved
Measurement and Verification Professional;
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(e) the manner and form and information and
documents to be included in an application to
be registered as an approved Measurement
and Verification Professional;
(f) the manner and form and information and
documents to be included in an application
for approval of a project impact report;
(g) the form of undertaking by an applicant for
an approved Measurement and Verification
Professional to avoid conflicts;
(h) the declaration requirements regarding
independence that must be met by an
approved Measurement and Verification
Professional providing an assessment of a
project impact report for a specific project.
(2) The ESC must take reasonable steps to ensure that
the information referred to in subregulation (3) is
published on the ESC's Internet site.
(3) For the purposes of subregulation (2), the
information the ESC must publish is the
following—
(a) the manner and form and information and
documents specified by the ESC under
subregulation (1)(a), of an application for a
scoping approval;
(b) the manner and form and information and
documents specified under subregulation
(1)(b), of an application for a project plan
approval including a measurement and
verification plan;
(c) the manner and form and information and
documents specified under subregulation
(1)(c), of an application for a variation to a
scoping approval or a project plan approval
or both a scoping approval and a project plan
approval;
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(d) the manner and form and information and
documents specified under subregulation
(1)(d) and (e), of an application for
registration as an approved Measurement
and Verification Professional;
(e) the manner and form and information and
documents specified under subregulation
(1)(f), of an application for a project impact
report;
(f) the form of undertaking specified under
subregulation (1)(g) by an applicant for an
approved Measurement and Verification
Professional;
(g) the declaration requirements specified
under subregulation (1)(h), of an approved
Measurement and Verification Professional
providing an assessment of a project impact
report.
Note
The relevant fees must be published in the Government Gazette
and on the Internet site of the ESC in accordance with section 73
of the Act.
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(1) The ESC must maintain a register of approved
project plans.
(2) The register of approved project plans must
contain the following—
(a) the name of each project that has received
project plan approval;
(b) the name of each accredited person for each
project;
(c) the location of each project;
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(d) the method or methods intended to be used
to calculate the reduction in greenhouse
gases;
(e) any other information that the ESC considers
appropriate.
(3) The ESC may vary details in the register to reflect
any variation approved under regulation 8(3).
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Professional
(1) A person may apply to the ESC to be registered
as an approved Measurement and Verification
Professional.
(2) The application must be—
(a) in the manner and form and contain
information and documents specified under
regulation 15(1)(e); and
(b) accompanied by any relevant fee fixed under
section 73 of the Act; and
(c) accompanied by an undertaking, specified
under regulation 15(1)(g), to avoid conflicts.
(3) The ESC may approve a person under this
regulation to be registered as an approved
Measurement and Verification Professional if
the ESC is satisfied that the person—
(a) is currently certified by the Association
of Energy Engineers as a Certified
Measurement and Verification Professional;
and
(b) meets the requirements relating to
competence and experience in measurement
and verification set by the ESC under
regulation 15(1)(d).
(4) The ESC must publish a register of persons
approved under subregulation (3).
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(5) The ESC may remove a person from the register
under the following circumstances—
(a) the person's certification by the Association
of Energy Engineers as a Certified
Measurement and Verification Professional
is suspended or has expired;
(b) the person no longer meets the requirements
relating to competence and experience in
measurement and verification specified by
the ESC under regulation 15(1)(d);
(c) the person has breached any undertaking
provided to the ESC under regulation
15(1)(g).
(6) The ESC must give 28 days' written notice of the
ESC's intention to remove a person from the
register.
(7) The notice must request reasons why the ESC
should not remove the person from the register.
(8) A person removed from the register under this
regulation is no longer an approved Measurement
and Verification Professional.
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18 Matters to be specified by the Secretary
(1) The Secretary may specify the following—
(a) for the purposes of regulation 6(6)(g), a
definition of a baseline energy model;
(b) for the purposes of regulation 7(3)(d), the
description to be included in the application
for project plan approval of the methods
intended to be used to calculate the reduction
in greenhouse gases as one of—
(i) a forward projection of savings using a
baseline energy model and operating
energy model; or
(ii) annual reporting of savings using a
baseline energy model and measured
energy consumption; or
(iii) a combination of the methods
described in subparagraphs (i) and (ii),
comprising a forward projection
followed by annual reporting of
savings;
(c) for the purposes of regulation 7(3)(f)(iii), a
definition of a baseline period start and end
date;
(d) for the purposes of regulation 7(3)(f)(iv), a
definition of an operating period start and
end date;
(e) for the purposes of regulation 11(3)(a)(iii),
the matters to be included in a project impact
report;
(f) for the purposes of regulation 11(3)(a)(iv),
the information, methods and variables to
calculate the carbon dioxide equivalent of
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greenhouse gases to be reduced by the
prescribed activity;
(g) the time at which the prescribed activity
is undertaken and reduction in greenhouse
gas emissions occurs for the purposes of
regulation 13 and section 17(1) and (2) of
the Act;
(h) the conditions and circumstances under
which a certificate cannot be created for
the purposes of regulation 14 and section
17(3)(d) of the Act.
(2) In exercising the powers conferred under
subregulation (1), the Secretary—
(a) may leave any matter or thing to be from
time to time determined or dispensed with
by any government department, municipal
council or public authority or any officer
thereof specified by the Secretary; and
(b) may confer powers or impose duties in
connection with the matters referred to
under subregulation (1) on any government
department, municipal council or public
authority specified by the Secretary; and
(c) may apply, adopt or incorporate, with or
without modification, the provisions of any
Act or of any regulations made under any
Act as in force at a particular time specified
by the Secretary; and
(d) may apply, adopt or incorporate, with or
without modification, any matter specified
by the Secretary contained in any document,
code, standard, rule, specification or method
formulated, issued, prescribed or published
by any authority or body whether—
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(i) as formulated, issued, prescribed
or published at the time when the
Secretary specifies the matter; or
(ii) as formulated, issued, prescribed or
published from time to time.
(3) The Secretary must take reasonable steps to
ensure that the matters referred to in subregulation
(1) are published in the Government Gazette and
on the Department's Internet site.
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amendments to the Victorian Energy
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19 Principal Regulations
In these Regulations, the Victorian Energy
Efficiency Target Regulations 20081 are called
the Principal Regulations.
20 Certificate not to be created more than once for
same product or activity in residential premises
After regulation 8(2) of the Principal Regulations
insert—
"(3) This regulation does not apply to a
prescribed activity that is prescribed under
the Victorian Energy Efficiency Target
(Project-Based Activities) Regulations
2017.".
21 Certificate not to be created more than once
for same product installed in business or
non-residential premises
At the end of regulation 8A of the Principal
Regulations insert—
"(2) This regulation does not apply to a
prescribed activity that is prescribed under
the Victorian Energy Efficiency Target
(Project-Based Activities) Regulations
2017.".
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22 Prescribed greenhouse gas scheme
For regulation 13 of the Principal Regulations
substitute—
"13 Prescribed greenhouse gas scheme
For the purpose of the definition of
prescribed greenhouse gas scheme in
section 3(1) of the Act, the following
schemes are prescribed—
(a) the scheme established under the
Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming
Initiative) Act 2011 of the
Commonwealth for the issue of
Australian carbon credit units in
relation to eligible offsets projects;
(b) the scheme established under
the Renewable Energy (Electricity)
Act 2000 of the Commonwealth for the
issue of renewable energy certificates
except as far as that scheme covers the
following prescribed activities—
(i) decommissioning an electric
resistance water heater and
installing a product that complies
with the criteria specified in
Part A of Schedule 1;
(ii) installing on an electric
resistance water heater a product
that complies with the criteria
specified in Part A of Schedule 2;
(iii) decommissioning a gas or
liquefied petroleum gas water
heater and installing a product
that complies with the criteria
specified in Part A of Schedule 3;
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(iv) installing on a gas or liquefied
petroleum gas water heater a solar
pre-heater that complies with the
criteria specified in Part A of
Schedule 4.".
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Endnotes
1 Reg. 19: S.R. No. 158/2008. Reprint No. 2 as at 12 May 2016. Reprinted to
S.R. No. 16/2016. Subsequently amended by S.R. No. 147/2016.
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Table of Applied, Adopted or Incorporated Matter
The following table of applied, adopted or incorporated matter is included in
accordance with the requirements of regulation 5 of the Subordinate Legislation
Regulations 2014.
Statutory rule
provision
Title of applied, adopted or
incorporated document
Matter in
applied,
adopted or
incorporated
document
Regulation 4 Code of Practice for Timber
Production 2014 published
by the Department of
Environment and Primary
Industries under Part 5 of
the Conservation, Forests
and Lands Act 1987
Definition of
native forest
Regulations 4
and 6(8)
Building Code Clause A3.2—
Classifications
Regulation 7(3) EVO 10000—1:2014
International Performance
Measurement and Verification
Protocol (IPMVP) Core
Concepts published by the
Efficiency Valuation
Organisation in June 2014
Principles in
Chapter 4
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