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ARTICLE · 28 OCTOBER 2012

The Clean Energy Regulator - are you complying?

Clayton Utz
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The Clean Energy Regulator will initially educate, engage and provide support so the market should not fail to comply.

AustraliaEnergy and Natural Resources
Brendan Bateman
Brendan Bateman
Trisha Cashmere
Trisha Cashmere
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The Clean Energy Regulator has a broad range of new powers, and industry a broad range of new obligations – and failure to comply could be expensive.

The Carbon Price Mechanism (CPM) has been operating for a few months now. There is a good familiarity with the obligations under this legislation (we hope), but is there a similar familiarity with the consequences of a failure to comply with the obligations set out in the Clean Energy Act 2011? The Act sets out a range of new obligations, and the Clean Energy Regulator has a broad set of powers – and there are costs for failing to comply.

In this article we review the Clean Energy Regulator's powers, the penalty provisions imposed by the Clean Energy Act 2011 and examine how these penalties may be applied.

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