Orders of the Day – in the House of Commons at 8:45 pm on 28 October 2008.
Amendments made: No. 36, page 16, line 4, leave out from second 'the' to end of line 5 and insert
'expiry of the period ending with 31st December 2012'.
No. 37, page 16, line 25, leave out 'the 1990 baseline in relation to those periods' and insert
'UK emissions of that gas for the year that is the base year for that gas'.
No. 38, page 16, line 30, leave out 'taken into account as if part of the 1990 baseline' and insert
'treated for the purposes of this Act as UK emissions of that gas for the year that is the base year for that gas'.
No. 39, page 16, line 30, at end insert—
'( ) For the purposes of this section the base year for carbon dioxide is the year that is the baseline year for the purposes of this Part.'.— [Joan Ruddock.]
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