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ENERGY EFFICIENCY OPPORTUNITIES ACT 2006 - SECT 18

Requirements for an assessment plan

             (1)  An assessment plan must set out a proposal for assessing the opportunities for improving the energy efficiency of the controlling corporation's group for the period mentioned in this table:

 

Assessment plans

Item

For this assessment plan:

the period is:

1

First assessment plan given after the corporation's most recent application for registration under Part 4

the period of 5 years beginning on 1 July in the financial year in which the corporation was required to make that application.

2

If the corporation is registered because of that application--each later assessment plan given during the period of that registration

the period of 5 years beginning on the day after the end of the period covered by the last assessment plan.

Example:    A controlling corporation's trigger year under section 9 is the financial year 2005‑2006. In the financial year 2006‑2007 the corporation is required to apply under that section to be registered under Part 4.

                   The corporation's first assessment plan must cover the period of 5 years beginning on 1 July 2006 and ending on 30 June 2011.

                   The corporation's later assessment plans must cover the period of 5 years beginning on 1 July 2011 and ending on 30 June 2016, and so on.

             (3)  The assessment plan must be in the form (if any) specified in the regulations.

             (4)  The proposal must set out particular actions that need to be done to assess those opportunities.

             (5)  Those actions must be specified for the group:

                     (a)  as a whole; or

                     (b)  in terms of particular parts of the group.

             (6)  The proposal must set out a deadline or deadlines for doing all of those actions.

             (7)  The assessment plan must set out the manner in which the controlling corporation intends to comply with subsection 22(1).

          (7A)  Without limiting the scope of subsection (7), the assessment plan must set out:

                     (a)  whether the controlling corporation intends to rely on section 22A in order to comply with its obligations under subsection 22(1); and

                     (b)  if the controlling corporation intends to rely on section 22A in that way--the other members of the group that are intended to prepare a report in accordance with section 22A; and

                     (c)  whether the controlling corporation intends to rely on section 22B in order to comply with its obligations under subsection 22(1); and

                     (d)  if the controlling corporation intends to rely on section 22B in that way--the corporation that is intended to prepare a report in accordance with section 22B.

             (8)  The regulations may:

                     (a)  set out requirements for a proposal in relation to the following:

                              (i)  the types of actions mentioned in subsection (4);

                             (ii)  the deadlines for doing those actions;

                            (iii)  matters that must be set out for the purposes of subsections (7) and (7A); and

                     (b)  require particular information to be set out in the assessment plan.

             (9)  Regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (8)(b) may only require information that:

                     (a)  is reasonably necessary to assess the extent to which this Act achieves its objects; or

                     (b)  is reasonably necessary for the administration of this Act.



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