Queensland Consolidated Acts

LIQUID FUEL SUPPLY ACT 1984 - SECT 12

12 Bulk customers of relevant persons

(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 persons who or associations of persons that have purchased in bulk or propose to purchase in bulk a refined liquid petroleum product of a kind specified in the notification from a relevant person as bulk customers of that relevant person in relation to 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 may relate to the likelihood that activities carried on by any person or association before being identified as a bulk customer will continue to be carried on by that person or association during the period in relation to which the identification has effect.

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

(a) identify any person or association as a bulk customer of a relevant person in relation to a refined liquid petroleum product of a particular kind; and

(b) at any time revoke an instrument identifying any person or association as such a bulk customer.

(4) The Minister shall not identify any person or association as a bulk customer of a particular relevant person in relation to 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 or association is so identified.

(5) The Minister shall not revoke an instrument identifying any person or association as a bulk customer of a relevant person in relation to a particular period of emergency and to a refined liquid petroleum product of a particular kind unless the Minister is satisfied that the person or association has ceased to carry on activities by reason of which the person or it could have been identified as such a bulk customer at the time the instrument was made.

(6) Where the Minister—

(a) identifies any person or association under subsection (3) as a bulk customer of a relevant person in relation to a refined liquid petroleum product of a particular kind; or

(b) revokes under subsection (3) an instrument identifying any person or association as such a bulk customer;

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 or association concerned.