Note 1: An expression used in the Act has the same meaning in the Act as it has in the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989: see section 3 of the Act.
Note 2: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act or the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989, including the following:
(aa) CEO;
(a) HCFC;
(b) ODP tonnes;
(c) reporting period;
(d) SGG;
(e) SGG equipment.
In this instrument:
Act means the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Act 1995.
6Conditions for exemption from import levy for SGGs—SGGs imported for destruction#
(1)For the purposes of paragraph 3A(4)(b) of the Act, the following condition is specified, namely, that the licensee must give the CEO evidence of the following in a form approved by the CEO:
(a)that an agreement for the destruction of the SGG, within 90 days after the import, has been entered into;
(b)that the destruction of the SGG has taken place, or will take place, at:
(i)a refrigerant destruction facility that a person is approved to operate under regulation 114 of the Management Regulations; or
(ii)an extinguishing agent destruction facility that a person is approved to operate under regulation 306 of the Management Regulations;
(c)that the SGG was destroyed within 90 days after the import.
(2)The evidence must be given to the CEO:
(a)for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a)—before the SGG is imported; and
(b)for the purposes of paragraph (1)(c)—within 30 days after the destruction.
7Exemption from import levy for SGG equipment—metered dose inhalers#
For the purposes of subsection 4A(2) of the Act, a metered dose inhaler that is used for medical purposes is prescribed.
11Application of this instrument as originally made#
(1)This instrument as originally made applies in relation to reporting periods that start on or after the commencement time.
(2)The Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Regulations2004, as in force immediately before the repeal of that instrument, continue to apply in relation to reporting periods starting before the commencement time, as if that repeal had not happened.
(3)In this section:
commencement time means the commencement of Schedule 1 to the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Amendment Act 2022.