Queensland Consolidated Acts

LIQUID FUEL SUPPLY ACT 1984 - SECT 11

11 Essential or high priority users of liquid fuel

(1) At any time (whether or not during a period of liquid fuel emergency) the Minister may, by notification published in the gazette—

(a) specify guidelines to be observed in identifying in relation to a refined liquid petroleum product of a kind specified in the notification persons, associations of persons or classes of persons as essential users or high priority users of that product; and

(b) vary guidelines specified under this subsection, including guidelines varied by reason of a previous application of this subsection; and

(c) revoke guidelines specified under this subsection, including guidelines varied by reason of a previous application of this subsection.

(2) Without limiting the powers of the Minister under subsection (1) , guidelines specified under that subsection for the identification of persons, associations or classes as essential users or high priority users of a refined liquid petroleum product may relate to—

(a) activities carried on by those persons, associations or classes outside Queensland; or

(b) the likelihood that activities carried on by those persons, associations or classes before being so identified will continue to be carried on by them during any period in relation to which the identification has effect.

(3) The Minister may, by instrument in writing—

(a) identify any person, association or class as an essential user or as a high priority user of a refined liquid petroleum product of a particular kind; and

(b) at any time revoke an instrument identifying any person, association or class as such an essential user or a high priority user.

(4) The Minister shall not identify any person, association or class as an essential user or as a high priority user of a refined liquid petroleum product of a particular kind unless the identification is in accordance with guidelines specified under subsection (1) that are in force, in relation to that product, immediately before the person, association or class is so identified.

(5) The Minister shall not revoke an instrument identifying any person, association or class as an essential user or a high priority user of a refined liquid petroleum product of a particular kind unless the Minister is satisfied that the person, association or class has ceased to carry on activities by reason of which the person or it could have been identified as such a user of that product at the time the instrument was made.

(6) Where the Minister—

(a) identifies any person, association or class under subsection (3) as an essential user or as a high priority user of a refined liquid petroleum product of a particular kind; or

(b) revokes under subsection (3) an instrument identifying any person, association or class as such a user of a refined liquid petroleum product of a particular kind;

the Minister shall cause a copy of the instrument of identification or, as the case may be, of revocation to be served on the person, association or class concerned.