New Vehicle Efficiency Standard Determination 2024

I, CATHERINE KING, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, make the following determination.

Dated     27 November 2024.

CATHERINE KING

Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Interpretation

5  Repeal

Part 2—Exempt Vehicles

6  Exempt Vehicles

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Name

  This instrument is the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard Determination 2024

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.

 (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 paragraph 29(1)(c) of the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard Act 2024.

4  Interpretation

1.   In this instrument:

Act means the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard Act 2024.

ADR on Carbon Dioxide Emissions has the meaning set out in subsections (2) and (3).

NVES Integration Date means 31 December of the year in which an ADR on Carbon Dioxide Emissions is first applicable to a vehicle.

Specific definition—meaning of ADR on Carbon Dioxide Emissions

1.   ADR on Carbon Dioxide Emissions means a national road vehicle standard determined under section 12 of the Road Vehicle Standards Act 2018 which:

1.     provides for testing a vehicle’s carbon dioxide emissions; and
2.     is the source of that vehicle’s emissions number to be entered onto the RAV.

1.   Without limiting subsection (2), an ADR on Carbon Dioxide Emissions includes the Vehicle Standard (Australian Design Rule 81/02 – Fuel Consumption Labelling for Light Vehicles) 2008.

5  Repeal

   This instrument is repealed at the end of 31 December 2029.

Part 2—Exempt Vehicles

6  Exempt Vehicles

1.   The following classes of road vehicles have exempt vehicle status for the purposes of the Act:

Transitional – vehicles for which there is no standard for carbon dioxide emissions

1.      Any vehicle to which an ADR on Carbon Dioxide Emissions does not apply, until the first of the following date, whichever is earlier:
   1.             the NVES Integration Date for that vehicle; or
   2.             the date of repeal of this instrument.