Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FUEL QUALITY STANDARDS ACT 2000 - SECT 12A

             (1)  A person is guilty of an offence 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.

Penalty:  60 penalty units.

             (2)  Subsection (1) is an offence of strict liability.

Note:          For strict liability , see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code .