Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00833:reg:4d:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00833
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 4D (pt 3/8)
Character Range: 94140–96751

occurrence of the source; or
 (ii) a registered corporation or registered person certifies in writing that the method used was found to be non‑compliant during an external audit of the separate occurrence of the source;
then a lower method may be used to estimate emissions in relation to the separate occurrence of the source from that time.
 (3A) If section 22AA of the Act applies to a person, a lower method may be used to estimate emissions in relation to the source for the purposes of reporting under section 22AA.
 (4) In this section, reporting year, in relation to a source from the operation of a facility under the operational control of a registered corporation and entities that are members of the corporation's group, means a year that the registered corporation is required to provide a report under section 19 of the Act in relation to the facility
 (5) Higher method, is:
 (a) a prescribed alternative method; or
 (b) in relation to a method (the original method) being used to estimate emissions in relation to a separate occurrence of a source, a method for the source with a higher number than the number of the original method.
 (6) Lower method, is:
 (a) a default method; or
 (b) in relation to a method (the original method) being used to estimate emissions in relation to a separate occurrence of a source, a method for the source with a lower number than the number of the original method.

1.18A  Conditions—persons preparing report must use same method
 (1) This section applies if a person is required, under section 19, 22A, 22AA, 22E, 22G or 22X of the Act (a reporting provision), to provide a report to the Regulator for a reporting year or part of a reporting year (the reporting period).
 (2) For paragraph 10(3)(c) of the Act:
 (a) the person must, before 31 August in the year immediately following the reporting year, notify any other person required, under a reporting provision, to provide a report to the Regulator for the same facility of the method the person will use in the report; and
 (b) each person required to provide a report to the Regulator for the same facility and for the same reporting period must, before 31 October in the year immediately following the reporting year, take all reasonable steps to agree on a method to be used for each report provided to the Regulator for the facility and for the reporting period.
 (3) If the persons mentioned in paragraph (2)(b) do not agree on a method before 31 October in the year immediately following the reporting year, each report provided to the Regulator for the facility and for the reporting period must