Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Amendment Regulation (No. 4) 2011 (Qld)

Queensland Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Amendment Regulation (No. 4) 2011 Subordinate Legislation 2011 No. 242 made under the Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004 Contents Page 1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Regulation amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 Insertion of new s 115B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 115B Water heaters—registration and labelling . . . . . . . . . 2

Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Amendment Regulation (No. 4) 2011 [s 1] 1 Short title This regulation may be cited as the Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Amendment Regulation (No. 4) 2011 . 2 Regulation amended This regulation amends the Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Regulation 2004. 3 Insertion of new s 115B Chapter 5, part 4, division 4— insert— ‘115B Water heaters—registration and labelling ‘(1) A person must not display for sale or sell a gas device that is a water heater (the sale device ) unless a gas device of the same type as the sale device (an alike device )— (a) is registered; or (b) was registered when the sale device was manufactured in or imported into Queensland. Maximum penalty—20 penalty units. ‘(2) A person must not display for sale or sell a sale device with an energy efficiency label attached to, or accompanying, the device unless the label— (a) complies with requirements about labelling the device stated in AS 4552 ‘Gas fired water heaters for hot water supply and/or central heating’; and (b) contains no figures, symbols or other words likely to mislead the public about the device’s comparative energy efficiency rating or performance characteristics. Maximum penalty—20 penalty units. ‘(3) For subsection (1), an alike device is registered if— (a) the device is registered under a law of another State or the Commonwealth; and Page 2 2011 SL No. 242

Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Amendment Regulation (No. 4) 2011 [s 3] (b) a requirement of registration under the law is compliance with AS/NZS 4552.2, ‘Gas fired water heaters for hot water supply and/or central heating, part 2, minimum energy performance standards for gas water heaters’. ‘(4) This section does not apply to the display or sale of— (a) a second-hand sale device; or (b) a sale device manufactured in or imported into Queensland before the commencement of this section.’. ENDNOTES 1 Made by the Governor in Council on 24 November 2011. 2 Notified in the gazette on 25 November 2011. 3 Laid before the Legislative Assembly on . . . 4 The administering agency is the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation. © State of Queensland 2011 2011 SL No. 242 Page 3