Fuel Standard (Automotive Diesel) Amendment Determination 2005 (No. 1)

I, IAN GORDON CAMPBELL, Minister for the Environment and Heritage, make this Determination under section 21 of the Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000.

Dated 13 May 2005

IAN CAMPBELL

Minister for the Environment and Heritage

1 Name of Determination

  This Determination is the Fuel Standard (Automotive Diesel) Amendment Determination 2005 (No. 1).

2 Commencement

  This Determination commences on the day after it is registered.

3 Amendment of Fuel Standard (Automotive Diesel) Determination 2001

  Schedule 1 amends the Fuel Standard (Automotive Diesel) Determination 2001.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(section 3)

[1] Section 2A, before the definition of diesel

insert

ASTM International means the standards development organisation of that name.

[2] Subsection 3 (2)

substitute

 (2) The distillation temperature at which 95% of diesel has been recovered must:

 (a) from 1 July 2005 — not be above 370C; and

 (b) from 1 January 2006 — not be above 360C.

[3] Section 4

substitute

4 Testing methods

 (1) Compliance with the standard set out in section 3 for a substance or parameter is determined by application of the testing method for the substance or parameter in the following table:

 (2) For subsection (1), ASTM followed by an alphanumeric code means the testing method developed by ASTM International under that alphanumeric code.

[4] Subsection 5 (2)

omit

the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)

insert

the ASTM International