68. Regulations by Minister charged with responsibility for coordinating policies associated with climate change

The Minister may make regulations for or with respect to all or any of the following matters:

the criteria that an international carbon credit is required to meet in order to be accepted by the Authority as an eligible international carbon credit for the purposes of the definition of “eligible international carbon credit” in section 2, and the process by which an operator of a data centre may apply for the Authority’s acceptance of an international carbon credit as an eligible international carbon credit;

the time and manner in which or the process by which any eligible international carbon credit is to be surrendered by an operator of a data centre, and the circumstances in which any eligible international carbon credit may be treated as surrendered, to mitigate reckonable greenhouse gas emissions produced in connection with the generation of electricity used to operate a data centre for the purposes of sections 25(3)(b)(ii) and 27(3)(e)(ii), or to offset any increase in reckonable greenhouse gas emissions for the purposes of section 39(3)(a);

the methods, or criteria for the methods, by which the amounts of reckonable greenhouse gas emissions are to be measured or determined for the purposes of Part 4;

the energy sources or types of energy sources for the purposes of the definition of “prescribed energy source” in section 25(7);

the methods of disposal, processing or storage of greenhouse gas emissions, and the types of eligible international carbon credits used for mitigation, for the purposes of section 25(3)(b)(iii);

the sources from which electricity may be imported for the purposes of section 25(3)(c)(ii).