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(b) provision for amounts of renewable transport fuel of a specified description to count towards discharging such an obligation only up to a specified amount;
(c) provision for such an obligation not to be treated as discharged unless a specified minimum amount of renewable transport fuel of a specified description has been counted towards its discharge;
(d) provision for only such proportion of any renewable transport fuel of a specified description as is attributable to a specified substance, source of energy, method, process or other matter to count towards discharging such an obligation;
(e) provision as to how that proportion is to be determined;
(f) provision for an amount of renewable transport fuel of a specified description to count towards discharging such an obligation only if, or to the extent that, specified conditions are satisfied in relation to its supply, the person by or to whom it was supplied or the place at or for delivery to which it was supplied;
(g) provision for evidence produced by a supplier in relation to any fuel not to count for the purposes of his renewable transport fuel obligation for a period if evidence in relation to the same fuel has previously been produced (whether by him or by another supplier);
(h) provision for evidence produced by a supplier in relation to any fuel not to count for those purposes if, after the supply to which the evidence relates, the fuel is supplied by any person at or for delivery to a place outside the United Kingdom or a specified part of the United Kingdom;
(i) provision about the measurement of amounts of different descriptions of transport fuel;
(j) provision for units of transport fuel of a specified description to count for more or less than the same units of transport fuel of other descriptions;
(k) provision about how measurements in different units of different descriptions of transport fuel are to be aggregated;
(l) provision for the application of presumptions where specified matters are shown.
(3) The provision that may be made by virtue of this section also includes, in particular, provision which—
(a) is made having regard to one or more of the effects mentioned in subsection (4) (whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere); or
(b) requires regard to be had to one or more such effects.
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(4) Those effects are the effects of the production, supply or use of fuel of a particular description on—
(a) carbon emissions;
(b) agriculture;
(c) other economic activities;
(d) sustainable development; or
(e) the environment generally.'.—[Mr. Timms.]
Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.
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'(1) An RTF order may make provision for the Administrator to issue certificates to transport fuel suppliers ("RTF certificates").
(2) An RTF certificate is to certify—
(a) that the supplier to whom it is issued has supplied the amount of renewable transport fuel stated in the certificate;
(b) that that amount of such fuel was supplied by him during the period stated in the certificate;
(c) that that amount of such fuel was supplied by him during that period at or for delivery to a place in the United Kingdom or in the part of the United Kingdom stated in the certificate; and
(d) the other specified facts.
(3) Such a certificate may be issued to a supplier only if—
(a) he applies for it in the specified manner;
(b) his application includes evidence of the specified kind and in the specified form; and
(c) the other specified conditions are satisfied.
(4) An RTF order may authorise transfers of RTF certificates (whether for a consideration or otherwise) between persons of specified descriptions.
(5) Such an order may also provide that such a transfer is not to be effective unless—
(a) the specified details of it have been notified to the Administrator in the specified manner and within the specified time; and
(b) the other specified requirements have been complied with.
(6) If a supplier produces an RTF certificate to the Administrator, it is to count for the purposes of section [Imposition of renewable transport fuel obligations](2) as sufficient evidence of the facts certified.
(7) An RTF order may provide that, in specified circumstances, evidence produced by virtue of subsection (6) may count to the specified extent towards the discharge of a renewable transport fuel obligation for a period even if it is produced after the time by which evidence had to be produced for the purposes of that obligation.
(8) Such an order may also provide that, in specified circumstances, evidence produced by virtue of subsection (6) may count to the specified extent towards the discharge of a renewable transport fuel obligation for a period that is later than the period stated in the certificate in question in accordance with subsection (2)(b).'.—[Mr. Timms.]
Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.
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'(1) An RTF order may provide that a person who does not
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wholly discharge his renewable transport fuel obligation for a period by the production of evidence must pay the Administrator the specified sum within the specified period.
(2) The provision that may be made by virtue of subsection (1) includes, in particular, provision—
(a) for the specified sum to increase, in cases where that sum is not paid within a specified period, at the specified rate until it is paid or until the occurrence of a specified event;
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