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South Australia
Fair Trading (Fuel Pricing Information) Amendment
Bill 2020
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Fair
Trading Act 1987
.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Fair Trading
Act 1987
Part 6B—Fuel pricing
information
45FScheme may be
established by regulation
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Fair Trading (Fuel Pricing) Amendment
Act 2020.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Fair Trading
Act 1987
Before Part 7 insert:
Part 6B—Fuel pricing
information
45F—Scheme may be established by
regulation
(1) The regulations may establish a scheme for the dissemination of
real-time information relating to fuel pricing by fuel retailers (the fuel
pricing information scheme).
(2) The fuel pricing information scheme may (without limitation) do any of
the following:
(a) define or limit the fuels to which the scheme applies;
(b) define or limit the fuel retailers to whom the scheme applies and
establish a registration system for fuel retailers to whom the scheme
applies;
(c) require the Commissioner, or a person approved by the Commissioner, to
establish and maintain an information system for the dissemination, by means of
electronic communication, of real-time information relating to fuel prices in
the State;
(d) specify any requirements in relation to such an information system or
in relation to the use of information provided by such an information
system;
(e) impose requirements on fuel retailers to whom the scheme applies to
supply information to the Commissioner or another person for the purposes of the
scheme;
(f) impose any other requirements on fuel retailers to whom the scheme
applies for the purposes of the scheme.
(3) A fuel retailer to whom the fuel pricing information scheme applies
who—
(a) sells or offers for sale fuel to which the fuel pricing information
scheme applies; and
(b) is not registered in accordance with requirements of the fuel pricing
information scheme,
is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: $10 000.
(4) A fuel retailer to whom the fuel pricing information scheme applies
who refuses or fails to comply with any requirements imposed on the fuel
retailer by the fuel pricing information scheme is guilty of an
offence.
Maximum penalty: $10 000.
(5) A fuel retailer to whom the fuel pricing information scheme applies
who supplies false or misleading information to the Commissioner or another
person for the purposes of the fuel pricing information scheme is guilty of an
offence.
Maximum penalty: $10 000.