Queensland Consolidated Acts

LIQUID FUEL SUPPLY ACT 1984 - SECT 14

14 Development of bulk allocation procedures

(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 for the allocation by relevant persons included in a class of relevant person specified in the guidelines of bulk supplies of a refined liquid petroleum product of a kind specified in the notification to persons who or associations that would be likely to be, during the whole or a part of a liquid fuel emergency, bulk customers of those relevant persons 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) The Minister may, by notification, direct that each relevant person who—

(a) is included in a class of relevant person in relation to whom guidelines under subsection (1) are in force; and

(b) supplies a refined liquid petroleum product of a kind specified in those guidelines;

shall furnish to the Minister, by a date specified in the notification and in the form (if any) specified therein, particulars of procedures developed by that relevant person to enable that person to allocate bulk supplies of that product in accordance with those guidelines.

(2A) A notification given under subsection (2) shall be published in the gazette and in a newspaper that circulates throughout the State or, as the case may be, the part of the State in which the relevant persons to whom it is directed carry on business with a view to all such relevant persons being made aware of the notification.

(3) In respect of particulars of procedures furnished to the Minister under subsection (2) by a relevant person the Minister shall, by notice in writing given to the relevant person—

(a) if the Minister is satisfied that the procedures will enable the relevant person to allocate bulk supplies of the refined liquid petroleum product concerned in accordance with the guidelines—approve those procedures; or

(b) if the Minister is not so satisfied—direct the relevant person—

(i) to make such amendment of the procedures of which particulars have been so furnished as the Minister specifies in the notice;

(ii) to furnish to the Minister, by a date specified in the notice and in the form (if any) specified therein, particulars of the procedures as so amended.

(4) In respect of particulars of procedures furnished to the Minister by a relevant person as required by a direction given under subsection (3) (b) , being procedures amended in the manner specified in the direction, the Minister shall, by notice in writing given to the relevant person, approve the procedures as so amended.

(5) A relevant person shall not refuse or fail to comply with a direction under subsection (2) that is applicable to the person or a direction given to the person under subsection (3) unless that person has reasonable excuse.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—

(a) in the case of a body corporate—$10,000; or

(b) in the case of an individual—$1000.