Petroleum Products Pricing Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2001 (WA)

Petroleum Products Pricing Act 1983

Petroleum Products Pricing Amendment

Regulations (No. 2) 2001

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.             Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Petroleum Products
Pricing Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2001.

2.             Commencement

These regulations come into operation on the day on which section 20 of the Petroleum Legislation Amendment Act 2001 comes into operation.

3.             The regulations amended

The amendments in these regulations are to the Petroleum
Products Pricing Regulations 2000*.

[* Published in Gazette 29 December 2000, p. 7981-5.

For amendments to 13 August 2001 see Gazette
11 July 2001.]

23 August 2001 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 4379

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4.             Regulation 3 replaced by regulations 2A, 3 and 3A

Regulation 3 is repealed and the following regulations are inserted instead —

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2A.	Meaning of terms used in regulations 3 and 3A
In regulations 3 and 3A —
“day” means a period of 24 hours beginning

immediately after 6.00 a.m.;

“retail sale” does not include a sale in accordance with an existing agreement or arrangement between the customer and the retailer.

3.             Standard retail price to be as notified

(1) Subject to regulation 4, a person who offers a particular kind of motor fuel for retail sale on a particular day at a particular place commits an offence unless —

(a) under subregulation (2), the person has for that sale; and

(b) the standard retail price at which that kind of motor fuel is offered is that day’s permitted standard retail price.

Penalty: in the case of an individual, $1 000 and, in the

case of a body corporate, $2 000.

(2)	A person establishes the permitted standard retail price for the retail sale by that person of a particular kind of motor fuel on a particular day at a particular place by notifying the Commissioner, in accordance with
regulation 3A, of the standard retail price at which the motor fuel is to be offered for sale on that day.

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3A. Requirements for giving notification

(1) Notification under regulation 3(2) has to be given to the
Commissioner —

(a)	during a period fixed under subregulation (3) or, if no period is so fixed, during the period beginning at 8.30 a.m. and ending at 2.00 p.m.
on the day before the day for which the price is notified; and
(b)	in a manner and form fixed under subregulation (3) or, if no manner and form is so fixed —

(i) by a message given by a telephone call 1800 445 757; or

(ii) by a message sent to
[email protected] by email.

(2)	The notification under regulation 3(2) of a price for a particular day has effect as notification of the same price for each subsequent day until the beginning of a day for which the Commissioner has been notified under regulation 3(2) of a different price.
(3)	The Commissioner may by order published in the Gazette fix the period during which, and the manner and form in which, notification under regulation 3(2) can be given.
(4)	A period fixed under subregulation (3) has to end before the beginning of the day for which the price is notified.
(5)	The Commissioner may revoke an order under subregulation (3) by a subsequent order published in the Gazette.

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23 August 2001 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 4381

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5.             Regulation 4 amended

Regulation 4(1) is amended by deleting “Section 22J(1) of the
Act” and inserting instead —

“ Regulation 3(1) ”.

6.             Schedule 1 amended

The heading to Schedule 1 is amended by deleting “section 22J(1) of the Act” and inserting instead —

“ regulation 3(1) ”.

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.