Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FUEL QUALITY STANDARDS ACT 2000 - SECT 12A

  (1)   A person commits 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 .