New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT OPERATIONS (CLEAN AIR) REGULATION 2021 - REG 26

26 Transfer of petrol into fuel tanks of motor vehicles

(1) This clause applies to all premises from which petrol is sold to the public.

(2) The occupier of premises to which this clause applies must not, at those premises, transfer, or allow the transfer of, any petrol into a motor vehicle's fuel tank except by way of a petrol delivery hose whose nozzle is fitted with an automatic over-fill protection device.

: Maximum penalty--40 penalty units.

(3) A person must not, at premises to which this clause applies, transfer petrol into the fuel tank of a motor vehicle by way of a petrol delivery hose unless the nozzle of the hose is inserted as far as it will go into the fuel tank's fill-pipe.

: Maximum penalty--8 penalty units.

(4) In this clause,
"automatic over-fill protection device" means a device--

(a) that immediately cuts off the flow of petrol into the fuel tank when the tip of the nozzle becomes immersed in petrol, and

(b) that is properly installed and efficiently maintained.