Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021

Amendment of section 6 of Principal Act

8. Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (1):

“(1A) The Government may request 2 or more Ministers of the Government to jointly make and submit a sectoral adaptation plan under subsection (1) (in this section referred to as a ‘joint sectoral adaptation plan’), in relation to a matter for which such Ministers of the Government share responsibility.”,

(b) in subsection (3)—

(i) by the substitution of “under subsection (1) or (1A) has been made” for “under subsection (1) is made”, and

(ii) by the deletion, in paragraph (c), of “and to paragraphs (a) to (h) of section 7(1)”,

(c) in subsection (4), by the substitution of “under subsection (1) or (1A)” for “under subsection (1)”,

(d) in subsection (5), by the substitution of “under subsection (1) or (1A)” for “under subsection (1)”,

(e) in subsection (7), by the substitution of “A Minister of the Government, or 2 or more Ministers of the Government in the case of a joint sectoral adaptation plan, may,” for “A Minister of the Government may,”,

(f) in subsection (10), by the substitution of “under subsection (1) or (1A)” for “under subsection (1)”, and

(g) by the insertion of the following subsections after subsection (10):

“(11) For the purposes of performing their respective functions under this section, the Minister and the Government shall have regard to the matters specified in section 4(8).

(12) A reference in this Act to a sectoral adaptation plan shall, where the context admits, be construed as a reference to a joint sectoral adaptation plan.”.