Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FUEL QUALITY STANDARDS ACT 2000 - SECT 12B

                   A person contravenes this section if:

                     (a)  the person supplies fuel in Australia; and

                     (b)  the person is a constitutional corporation or a Commonwealth entity or the person supplies the fuel in the course of constitutional trade or commerce; and

                     (c)  the supply is subject to a fuel quality information standard; and

                     (d)  the supply does not comply with the fuel quality information standard; and

                     (e)  either:

                              (i)  if the person holds an approval that varies the fuel quality information standard in respect of the supply--the supply does not comply with the fuel quality information standard as varied; or

                             (ii)  if another person holds an approval that varies the fuel quality information standard in respect of the supply by the person--the supply does not comply with the fuel quality information standard as varied; and

                      (f)  the supply is not in order to comply with a direction or order under an emergency law.

Civil penalty:

                     (a)  for an individual--60 penalty units; and

                     (b)  for a body corporate--300 penalty units.