Diesel and Alternative Fuels Grants Scheme Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 2)1

Statutory Rules 2000 No. 3182

I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Diesel and Alternative Fuels Grants Scheme Act 1999.

Dated 22 November 2000

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

C. R. KEMP

Assistant Treasurer

1 Name of Regulations

  These Regulations are the Diesel and Alternative Fuels Grants Scheme Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 2).

2 Commencement

  These Regulations are taken to have commenced on 28 June 2000.

3 Amendment of Diesel and Alternative Fuels Grants Scheme Regulations 2000

  Schedule 1 amends the Diesel and Alternative Fuels Grants Scheme Regulations 2000.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Regulation 3, after definition of diesel fuel

insert

emergency vehicle has the meaning given by regulation 3B.

[2] After regulation 3A

insert

3B Meaning of emergency vehicle (Act s 5)

  An emergency vehicle is a vehicle that is:

 (a) operated by an ambulance service, being a vehicle that is fitted with a siren and flashing warning lights; or

 (b) operated by a firefighting service, being a vehicle that:

 (i) is designed, permanently fitted out and equipped for the purposes of preventing and fighting fires; and

 (ii) has external markings that identify the vehicle as a firefighting vehicle; or

 (c) operated by a police force or service, being a vehicle that is fitted with a siren and flashing warning light; or

 (d) an emergency response, or search and rescue, vehicle that:

 (i) is designed and permanently fitted out for the purposes of emergency response or search and rescue operations; and

 (ii) has external markings that identify the vehicle as an emergency response, or search and rescue, vehicle; or

 (e) a vehicle (that is not mentioned in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d)) operated by the Commonwealth or a State or Territory, or a Commonwealth, State or Territory authority, as an emergency vehicle.

[3] Paragraph 7 (1) (b)

omit

[4] After subregulation 7 (1)

insert

 (1A) For paragraph 11 (1) (b) of the Act, the amount per cubic metre that is applicable to compressed natural gas is 12.132 cents.

[5] Subregulation 7 (2)

omit

subregulation (1)

insert

subregulation (1) or (1A)

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 2000 No. 44, as amended by 2000 No. 160.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 November 2000.