Part 1Preliminary

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Duration

5 Definitions

Part 2—Herd management projects

6 Herd management projects

Part 3—Project requirements

7 Operation of this Part

8 Specifying herds of the project

9 Requirements for herds of the project

10 Separate business operation requirement

11 Herd continuity requirement

12 Requirement relating to movements of cattle

13 Requirement relating to co-grazing

14 Requirements relating to the management of herds

15 Animal identification requirement

16 Baseline reference date and emissions intensity reference period

17 Project activity

18 Project not to involve feeding of cattle on cleared land

18A Transition from earlier version of this determination

Part 4—Net abatement amount

Division 1—The net abatement amount

19 Method for calculating the net abatement amount

20 Gases accounted for in abatement calculations

Division 2—The baseline emissions

21 The baseline emissions

21A Historical annual emissions intensity

21B Reference emissions intensity for a limited data herd

21C Liveweight gain for a year

Division 3—The project emissions

22 Project emissions

Division 4—Use of Herd Management Calculator to perform calculations

23 Requirement to use Herd Management Calculator

24 Assessment of average liveweight for inputs into the Calculator

25 Inputs relating to the crediting period

26 Inputs relating to the emissions intensity period

Part 5—Reporting, record‑keeping and monitoring requirements

Division 1—Operation of this Part

27 Application

Division 2—Offsets report requirements

28 Information in each offsets report

Division 3—Record‑keeping requirements

28A General

29 Records that must be kept for purchased feed

Division 4—Monitoring requirements

30 General

Division 5—Reporting under section 77A of the Act

31 Requirements relating to reporting under section 77A of the Act

Schedule 1—Inputs into Herd Management Calculator—general