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Opening of Registry accounts—identification procedures

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Part 2Australian National Registry of Emissions Units
Division 3Registry accounts

11 Opening of Registry accounts—identification procedures

(1)

The regulations may prescribe identification procedures that must be carried out by the Regulator before the Regulator opens a Registry account in the name of the person.

(2)

The regulations may declare that a specified number is a transaction limit for the purposes of this section.

(3)

The regulations may make provision for identifying Registry accounts that are subject to a transaction limit.

(4)

An identification procedure prescribed under regulations made for the purposes of subsection (1):

(a)

may be expressed to apply to Registry accounts that are subject to a transaction limit; or

(b)

may be expressed to apply to Registry accounts that are not subject to a transaction limit.

(5)

The regulations may provide that, if a Registry account is subject to a particular transaction limit, the Regulator must not:

(a)

issue to the account any:

(i)

Australian carbon credit units; or

(ii)

safeguard mechanism credit units; or

(b)

comply with an instruction to transfer units to the account;

if doing so would result in the account having entries for a number of units that exceeds the transaction limit.

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