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Hydrofluorocarbons Limitation Bill


 

Hydrofluorocarbons Limitation Bill

 

 
 

Contents

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Phasing out equipment using hydrofluorocarbons

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Duty to consult

3   

Interpretation

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Regulations

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Short title and extent

 

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Hydrofluorocarbons Limitation Bill

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A

Bill

To

Make provision for limiting the use of hydrofluorocarbons in certain premises;

and for connected purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and

consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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Phasing out equipment using hydrofluorocarbons

(1)   

The Secretary of State must make regulations to phase out the use of

hydrofluorocarbons in equipment used in large shops within five years of the

day on which this Act is passed.

(2)   

The Secretary of State must also make regulations—

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(a)   

to specify a date by which the use of equipment using

hydrofluorocarbons in other commercial premises must be ended; and

(b)   

to specify such other dates as the Secretary of State considers

appropriate for limiting the use of equipment that uses

hydrofluorocarbons.

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2       

Duty to consult

Before making regulations under section 1 the Secretary of State shall consult

such persons as he considers appropriate.

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Interpretation

In this Act “large shop” has the meaning given in Schedule 1 to the Sunday

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Trading Act 1994 (c. 20).

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Regulations

(1)   

Regulations under section 1 shall be made by statutory instrument and shall be

subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of

Parliament.

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(2)   

The Secretary of State must lay those regulations before Parliament within 12

months of the day on which this Act is passed.

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Short title and extent

(1)   

This Act may be cited as the Hydrofluorocarbons Limitation Act 2009.

(2)   

This Act extends to England and Wales.

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