Fuel Sales Grants Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1)1

Statutory Rules 2000 No. 3682

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 Fuel Sales Grants Act 2000.

Dated 13 December 2000

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

C. R. KEMP

Assistant Treasurer

1 Name of Regulations

  These Regulations are the Fuel Sales Grants Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1).

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence on gazettal.

3 Amendment of Fuel Sales Grants Regulations 2000

  Schedule 1 amends the Fuel Sales Grants Regulations 2000.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Subregulation 6 (2)

omit

the period.

insert

the period, together with any additional amount worked out under subregulation (3).

[2] Subregulation 6 (3)

substitute

 (3) The additional amount for subregulation (2) is 1 cent for each litre of the fuel sold during the payment period if either:

 (a) the following conditions apply (first claim):

 (i) the claimant offered for sale fuel of that kind for not less than $1.21 for a litre during a period of 4 weeks that ended immediately before making the claim for the additional amount; and

 (ii) immediately after making the claim:

 (A) the claimant has continued to offer for sale fuel of that kind for not less than $1.20 for a litre; and

 (B) fuel of that kind has been offered for sale for not less than $1.20 for a litre by other persons (if any) in comparable locations; or

 (b) the following conditions apply (subsequent claim):

 (i) the claimant has made a previous claim under paragraph (a); and

 (ii) since making that claim:

 (A) the claimant has continued to offer for sale fuel of that kind for not less than $1.20 for a litre; and

 (B) fuel of that kind has been offered for sale for not less than $1.20 for a litre by other persons (if any) in comparable locations.

 (4) In this regulation:

comparable location, in relation to the location at which a claimant sells fuel, means a location:

 (a) that is nearby; and

 (b) to which the fuel is transported at a similar cost.

 (5) However, the Commissioner may decide, in case of doubt, that a location qualifies as a comparable location.

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 2000 No. 161.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 20 December 2000.