Fair Trading Act 1987 Fair Trading (Penalty Notices) Amendment (Petrol Prices) Regulation 1999 (1999-690) [GG No 144 of 24.12.1999, 12228] (NSW)

1999 No 690

Fair Trading (Penalty Notices) New South Wales

Amendment (Petrol Prices)

Regulation 1999

under the

Fair Trading Act 1987

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Fair Trading Act 1987.

JOHN WATKINS, M.P., Minister for Fair Trading

Explanatory note
The objects of this Regulation are:

(a)	to prescribe the offence under section 39 (1) of the Fair Trading Act 1987 (failing to comply with product information standards) in relation to the supply of regular unleaded petrol as an offence that may be dealt with by way of penalty notice, and
(b)	to specify the short description to be used in connection with that offence for the purposes of section 145B of the Justices Act 1902, and
(c)	to specify the penalty payable for that offence when dealt with by way of penalty notice,
(d)	to amend the Schedule to the Fair Trading (Penalty Notices) Regulation 1998 to include the Infringement Processing Bureau codes that relate to the offences listed in that Schedule.

This Regulation is made under the Fair Trading Act 1987, including sections 64 and 92 (the general regulation-making power) and section 145B of the Justices Act 1902.

Published in Gazette No 144 of 24 December 1999, page 12228	Page 1
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Explanatory note

This Regulation is made in connection with the making of the Fair Trading (Product Information Standards) Amendment (Petrol Prices) Regulation 1999.

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Fair Trading (Penalty Notices) Amendment (Petrol Prices) Regulation	Clause 1
1999

Fair Trading (Penalty Notices) Amendment (Petrol
Prices) Regulation 1999

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Fair Trading (Penalty Notices) Amendment

(Petrol Prices) Regulation 1999.

2 Commencement

This Regulation commences on 24 March 2000.

3 Amendment of Fair Trading (Penalty Notices) Regulation 1998

The Fair Trading (Penalty Notices) Regulation 1998 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

4 Notes

The explanatory note does not form part of this Regulation.

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Schedule 1	Amendments
Schedule 1	Amendments

(Clause 3)

[1]      Clause 3 Definitions

Insert in clause 3 in alphabetical order:

Infringement Processing Bureau means the Infringement
Processing Bureau within the Police Service.
IPB Code, in relation to an offence, means the code
allocated to the offence by the Infringement Processing
Bureau.

[2]      Clause 6 Short descriptions

Omit clause 6 (1) (a) and (b). Insert instead:

(a)

if one or more IPB codes are set out in relation to the offence in Column 4 of Schedule 1, any of those IPB codes together with:

(i)	the text set out in relation to the offence in Column 2 of Schedule 1, or
(ii)	if a choice of words is indicated in that text, the words remaining after the omission of the words irrelevant to the offence, or

(b)

if no IPB code is set out in relation to the offence in Column 1 of Schedule 1:

(i)	the text set out in relation to the offence in Column 2 of Schedule 1, or
(ii)	if a choice of words is indicated in that text, the words remaining after the omission of the words irrelevant to the offence.

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Amendments Schedule 1

[3]      Schedule 1

Omit the Schedule. Insert instead:

Schedule 1 Penalty notice offences (Clauses 5 and 6)
Offences under the Act
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Offence	Short	Penalty	IPB Code
description
Section 32 (2)	supply goods	$500	6643
contra to interim/ permanent order under sec 30/31
Section 39 (1)—	fail to comply	$550	7556
in relation to the	with petrol
product	product
information	information
standard for	standard
regular unleaded petrol supplied at a petrol station
Section 40 (1)	sell goods at	$200	6644
price greater than lower/lowest marked price

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