Climate Change Response (Late Payment Penalties and Industrial Allocation) Amendment Bill
Government bill
About this bill
This bill amends provisions in the Climate Change Response Act 2022 relating to the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme. It updates the penalty for participants with low-volume liabilities of less than 25,000 units on average per year from forestry activities, occurring from 1 January 2025, who fail to surrender or repay units by the due date. The bill also updates industrial allocation settings.
Voting method
Party voting: Parties decided whether or not to support this bill and cast votes on behalf of all their MPs.Procedural notes
- Urgency used: This bill was progressed through one or more stages using urgency. Urgency allows the Government to fast-track the legislative process by extending the sitting hours of the House of Representatives and skipping the select committee stage of a bill, and allows bills to pass through more than one stage per sitting day.
Learn more about urgency
Read the bill
Bill text: Climate Change Response (Late Payment Penalties and Industrial Allocation) Amendment Bill (legislation.govt.nz)Member responsible
Progress
Enacted
This Bill has been passed by Parliament, and signed into law by the Governor-General in a step called Royal Assent. This doesn't mean that everything the Act implements has come into force yet, but it does mean that the Act is on the statute books.
Votes
1st reading
Passed
21 February 2023
WhereTheyStand has no totals for this vote. It might have been a voice vote, or there might have been an import error.
Only reading votes are shown here; these votes determine whether the Bill progresses through Parliament. Other votes, such as votes on whether to amend parts of the Bill, can be seen in Hansard.
Bill details last synced with the Parliament website almost 2 years ago.
(24 August 2023 at 12:30 GMT+00:00)