Fuel Quality Information Standard (Ethanol) Amendment Determination 2005 (No. 1) (Cth)

Fuel Quality Information Standard (Ethanol) Amendment Determination 2005 (No. 1)

I, IAN GORDON CAMPBELL, Minister for the Environment and Heritage, make this Determination under section 22A of the Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000.

Dated 31 December 2005

IAN CAMPBELL

Minister for the Environment and Heritage

1. Name of Determination

This Determination is the Fuel Quality Information Standard (Ethanol) Amendment Determination 2005 (No. 1).

1. Commencement

This Determination commences on the day after it is registered.

1. Amendment of Fuel Quality Information Standard (Ethanol) Determination 2003

Schedule 1 amends the Fuel Quality Information Standard (Ethanol) Determination 2003.

Schedule 1        Amendments

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[1]           Sections 4 and 5

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1. Service stations

(1)   The fuel quality information standard for the supply of ethanol blend from a service station is that one of the following appears, clearly displayed, on any petrol pump at the station dispensing ethanol blend:

(a)    the words ‘Contains up to x% ethanol’, where x is no less than the percentage of ethanol in the ethanol blend;

(b)    the words ‘Contains y% ethanol’, where y is the percentage of ethanol in the ethanol blend.

(2)   For paragraph (1) (b), if the percentage is not a whole number, it may be rounded to the nearest whole percentage, a multiple of 0.5 % being rounded up.

1. Other retail supply

The fuel quality information standard for the supply, by retail sale, of ethanol blend other than from a service station is that:

(a)    before the ethanol blend is supplied, the buyer is given a document that prominently includes the words specified in paragraph 4 (a) or (b); or

(b)    if the buyer is present when the ethanol blend is supplied, the words specified in paragraph 4 (a) or (b) appear on each container of ethanol blend so that the words can easily be read by the buyer.

[2]           Schedule 1

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