Fuel Quality Standards Amendment (Fuel Blends) Regulation 2015

Select Legislative Instrument No. 227, 2015

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 10 December 2015

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Greg Hunt

Minister for the Environment

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Fuel Quality Standards Regulations 2001

1  Name

  This is the Fuel Quality Standards Amendment (Fuel Blends) Regulation 2015.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Fuel Quality Standards Regulations 2001

1  Subregulation 3(2) (after paragraph (a) of the definition of fuel)

Insert:

 (aa) a mixture of petrol and ethanol of which more than 50% is petrol;

2  Subregulation 3(2) (after paragraph (b) of the definition of fuel)

Insert:

 (ba) a mixture of automotive diesel and biodiesel (within the meaning of paragraph (g)) of which more than 50% is automotive diesel;

3  Subregulation 3(2) (after paragraph (g) of the definition of fuel)

Insert:

 (ga) a mixture of biodiesel (within the meaning of paragraph (g)) and automotive diesel of which more than 50% is biodiesel;

4  Subregulation 3(2) (after paragraph (h) of the definition of fuel)

Insert:

 (ha) a mixture of ethanol and petrol of which more than 50% is ethanol;

5  Subregulation 3(2) (paragraph (i) of the definition of fuel)

Omit “(h)”, substitute “(ha)”.

6  Subregulation 3(2) (subparagraph (j)(i) of the definition of fuel)

Omit “(h)”, substitute “(ha)”.