15Prescribed activities

15 Prescribed activities (1) Regulations made under section 75 may prescribe an activity in Victoria or in another State or Territory in which an approved interstate energy efficiency regime is in force to be a prescribed activity. (2) An activity may be prescribed to be a prescribed activity if the activity will result in a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions that would not otherwise have occurred if the activity was not undertaken. (3) Without limiting the generality of subsection (2), an activity of the following kind is an activity that will result in a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions that would not otherwise have occurred if the activity was not undertaken— (a) modifying or replacing an appliance, a structure or any equipment so as to reduce consumption of electricity or gas where there is no negative effect on output; S. 15(3)(ab) inserted by No. 15/2025 s. 7(a). (ab) modifying an appliance or any equipment so that it reduces the consumption of electricity or gas at times or in circumstances where that consumption would be unnecessary or inefficient, or installing an appliance or any equipment that performs that function; (b) replacing any equipment or system that uses electricity or gas and emits relatively high levels of greenhouse gases with an energy source that emits relatively low levels of greenhouse gases; (c) purchasing an appliance or any equipment for the purpose of being installed which has an efficiency rating prescribed as a high efficiency rating for an appliance or equipment of that kind or class; S. 15(3)(d) amended by No. 15/2025 s. 7(b). (d) installing an appliance or any equipment which has an efficiency rating prescribed as a high efficiency rating for an appliance or equipment of that kind or class; S. 15(3)(e) inserted by No. 15/2025 s. 7(c). (e) generating or providing information regarding the electricity or gas consumption, or the energy efficiency, of particular premises, appliances, structures or equipment. S. 15(4) inserted by No. 15/2025 s. 4. (4) An activity may be prescribed to be a prescribed activity whether or not a law requires that activity to be undertaken. S. 15(5) inserted by No. 15/2025 s. 4. (5) In determining whether a prescribed activity has been undertaken, it does not matter that it was undertaken because a law required it to be undertaken. S. 15(6) inserted by No. 15/2025 s. 6. (6) Without limiting anything in this section or in section 75, the regulations may prescribe, as a prescribed activity, an activity that is undertaken in respect of a consumer of electricity or gas who belongs to a prescribed class. S. 15A inserted by No. 34/2022 s. 39.