(3) Nothing in this Act renders the Government liable to prosecution for an offence under this Act.
(4) To avoid doubt, a person is not immune from prosecution for any offence under this Act by reason only that the person is engaged to provide services to or on behalf of the Government.
Administration of Act
6.—(1) The Agency is responsible for the administration and enforcement of this Act, subject to the general or special directions of the Minister.
(2) The Agency may appoint, by name or office, any officer or employee of the Agency to be an authorised officer to carry out such function or duty, or exercise such power, conferred on an authorised officer under this Act, as the Agency may specify.
PART 3
REGISTRATION OF PERSONS AND BUSINESS FACILITIES
Obligation to apply to register as registered person, and to register business facility as reportable facility and taxable facility
7.—(1) Where the total amount of reckonable GHG emissions of a business facility has a carbon dioxide equivalence that attains the first emissions threshold (or higher) whilst the business facility is under the operational control of a person in any year (called in this Part a trigger year), then the person must apply to the Agency—
- (a) to be registered as a registered person;
- (b) to register the business facility as a reportable facility of the registered person; and
- (c) if the carbon dioxide equivalence of the total amount of reckonable GHG emissions from the business facility also attains the second emissions threshold (or higher) in the same trigger year, to register the business facility as a taxable facility of the registered person.
