Product Stewardship (Oil) Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 2)1

Statutory Rules 2003 No. 2942

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Product Stewardship (Oil) Act 2000.

Dated 20 November 2003

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

DAVID KEMP

Minister for the Environment and Heritage

1 Name of Regulations

  These Regulations are the Product Stewardship (Oil) Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 2).

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence on 1 December 2003.

3 Amendment of Product Stewardship (Oil) Regulations 2000

  Schedule 1 amends the Product Stewardship (Oil) Regulations 2000.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Subregulation 4 (1), except the table

substitute

 (1) For subsection 10 (1) of the Act, the amount of product stewardship (oil) benefit for a claim period is:

 (a) for a recycled oil — the amount mentioned in column 3 of the first category in items 1 to 7 in the following table that applies to the recycled oil; and

 (b) for gazetted oil for a gazetted use — the amount mentioned in column 3 of item 8 in the following table.

[2] Subregulation 4 (1), table, after item 7

insert

[3] Subregulation 4 (1), table, after the example

insert

Note   The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, declare an oil or a use to be a gazetted oil or a gazetted use (see the definitions of gazetted oil and gazetted use in subsection 6 (1) of the Act).

[4] Subregulation 4 (2)

substitute

 (2) However:

 (a) if an oil is a gazetted oil for a gazetted use and a recycled oil to which any of the categories in items 3 to 7 in the table apply, the amount of product stewardship (oil) benefit for a claim period is the amount mentioned in column 3 of the first category in items 3 to 7 that applies to the oil; and

 (b) no product stewardship (oil) benefit is payable in respect of oil (including gazetted oil obtained through recycling) that is to undergo further recycling before it is sold to the end user.

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 2000 No. 199, as amended by 2000 No. 353; 2003 No. 47.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 27 November 2003.