Reprint as at 23 December 2008
Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this eprint.
A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this eprint, together with other explanatory material about this eprint.
Title
[Repealed]
1 Title and commencement
1A Act binds the Crown
1B Interpretation
Part 1Abolition of Ministry of Energy
2 Interpretation
3 Abolition of Ministry of Energy
4 Consequential amendments to references to Minister of Energy, Secretary of Energy, and Ministry of Energy
5 Consequential amendments
6 Repeals
7 Consequential amendments to regulations
8 Revocations
Savings
9 Delegation of powers by Minister or Secretary
10 Existing proceedings
11 Existing consents, licences, permits, approvals, or remissions, etc
Part 2Function of Minister in relation to price control
12 Interpretation [Repealed]
13 Control of goods or services
Part 3Levies
14 Purpose of levies
15 Levies payable by owners of coal mines [Repealed]
16 Levies payable by owners of mineral mines [Repealed]
17 Levy payable by holders of prospecting licences [Repealed]
18 Levies payable by occupiers of quarries [Repealed]
19 Levies payable by occupiers of tunnels [Repealed]
20 Levies payable by owners of geothermal energy [Repealed]
21 Levies payable by holders of pipeline authorisations [Repealed]
22 Electricity levies
23 Gas levies
24 Petroleum or engine fuel monitoring levy
25 Supplementary levies [Repealed]
25A Administration charge [Repealed]
26 Rebates
27 Due dates for payment
28 Penalty for late payment
29 Recovery of levies
30 Payment into Departmental Bank Account
31 Power to inspect property, obtain information, and enter land
32 Offence to make incorrect statement, etc
33 Rates of levies, etc, may be prescribed
34 Amount of goods and services tax excluded
Part 3ABiofuel obligation
34A Purpose of this Part
34B Outline of this Part
34C Status of examples
34D Interpretation
34E Definition of obliged person
34F Definition of obligation engine fuel
34G Definition of qualifying biofuel
34H Minister must recommend Order in Council under section 34G(2) providing qualifying biofuels must be sustainable biofuels
34I Definition of trigger point
34J Governor-General may revise biofuel percentage
34K Consultation and confirmation requirements for Orders in Council under section 34F, 34G, 34I, or 34J
34L Obliged person’s required amount of qualifying biofuel
34M Calculating required amount of qualifying biofuel and actual amount of qualifying biofuel
34N Required amount of qualifying biofuels may be divided into proportions or amounts by Order in Council
34O Energy content values
34P Exclusion for engine fuel exported from New Zealand
34Q Deferring required amount of qualifying biofuel
34R Surplus and shortfall
34S Entitlement agreements: general rules
34T Entitlement agreements with biofuel owner who is not obliged person
34U Entitlement agreements with biofuel owner who is obliged person
Annual returns
34V Annual returns
34W Auditing of annual returns
Civil penalty
34X Civil penalty for breaching section 34L
34Y Civil penalty for breaching section 34N(2)
34Z Definition of force majeure event
34ZA Applicable rules, procedure, and standard of proof
Part 4Miscellaneous provisions
35 Regulations
35A Power of Minister to require selling of engine fuel to cease
35B Keeping of records
35C Power to inspect property, obtain information, and enter land to conduct compliance check
35D Offence to make incorrect statement
36 Power of Minister to require information
37 Offences
Search warrants
37A Issue of search warrants
37B Powers conferred by warrant
37C Form and content of search warrant
37D Warrant must be produced
37E Other duties of person who executes warrant
37F When alternative to list of seized things may be provided
37G Matters that must be stated in list of seized things
37H Duty to assist
37I Power to inspect and take copies of documents, etc, obtained under warrant
37J Disposal of things seized
37K Court order to be suspended on conviction
Savings and transitional provisions
38 Savings
39 Transitional provisions in relation to levies
Schedule 1Enactments amended
Schedule 2Repeals
Schedule 3Consequential amendments to regulations
Schedule 4Orders revoked
Schedule 5Biofuel percentage
Reprint notes
Title: repealed, on 20 September 2007, by section 4 of the Energy (Fuels, Levies, and References) Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 54).
BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows: