Statutory  Rules  1991   No. 681
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Petroleum Excise (Prices) Regulations 2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Petroleum Excise (Prices) Act 1987.

	Dated 10 April 1991.

										  BILL HAYDEN
Governor-General	
	By His Excellency's Command,

ALAN GRIFFITHS
Minister of State for 
Resources
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1.   Amendment
1.1   The Petroleum Excise (Prices) Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

2.   New regulation 2A
2.1   After regulation 2, insert:

Oil producing regions and VOLWARE commencement dates
	“2A.	(1)  For the purposes of the definition of ‘oil producing region’ in subsection 4 (1) of the Act, the production areas listed in column 3 of an item in the Schedule are, together, the oil producing region specified in column 2 of that item.

	“(2)	For the purposes of the definition of ‘VOLWARE commencement date’ in subsection 4 (1) of the Act, the date specified in column 4 of an item in the Schedule is the VOLWARE commencement date in relation to excisable crude petroleum oil obtained from the oil producing region specified in column 2 of that item.”.

3.	   New Schedule
3.1   	After regulation 7, insert:

	SCHEDULE		    Regulation 2A

Column 1

Item No.
	Column 2

Oil producing
region
	Column 3

Production areas
	Column 4

VOLWARE
commencement
date	
					
1	Bass Strait	Barracouta	1 January 1988	
		Marlin		
		Snapper Old		
		Snapper New		
		Snapper SND		
		Halibut		

SCHEDULE—continued

Column 1

Item No.

	Column 2

Oil producing
region
	Column 3

Production areas
	Column 4

VOLWARE
commencement
date	
				
		Kingfish		
		West Kingfish Old		
		West Kingfish New		
		Mackerel		
		South Mackerel		
		Tuna Old		
		Tuna New		
		Cobia		
		Fortescue		
		Flounder Old		
		Flounder New		
		Whiptail		
		Whiting		
		Tarwhine		
		Seahorse		
		Sunfish 2		
		Wirrah		
				
2	Jackson	Jackson	1 November 1990	
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NOTES

1.	Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 17 April 1991.

2.	Statutory Rules 1988 No. 22 as amended by 1989 No. 352.