Petroleum Retail Marketing Sites Regulations (Amendment) 1991 No. 46
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1991 No. 46
Issued by Authority of the Minister for Industry, Technology and Commerce.
Petroleum Retail Marketing Sites Act 1980
Petroleum Retail Marketing Sites Regulations (Amendment)
The purpose of the Regulation is to provide Shell Australia Limited (Shell) with a temporary increase in the number of retail service station sites which it may directly operate during the period 1 March 1991 to 29 February 1992.
Shell has recently acquired the Delta Petroleum Group, an independent petrol retailing chain comprising 46 sites in Victoria. The temporary increase in quota will allow Shell time in which to rationalise its operations to return the number of direct operated sites to 110 without breaching the site quota provisions of the Act.