Excise Tariff Amendment (Product Stewardship for Waste Oil) Act 2000

(104 of 2000)

An Act to amend the Excise Tariff Act 1921, and for related purposes

Assented to 6 July 2000

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1   Short title

This Act may be cited as the Excise Tariff Amendment (Product Stewardship for Waste Oil) Act 2000.

2   Commencement

(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(2) Schedule 1 commences, or is taken to have commenced, at the commencement of section 9 of the Product Stewardship (Oil) Act 2000.

3   Schedule(s)

Subject to section 2, each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1   Oils

Excise Tariff Act 1921

1   Subparagraph 11(d) of the Schedule

Repeal the subparagraph, substitute:

 

(d) other petroleum products other than products classified to item 15 of the Schedule.

 

2   Subitem 11(I) of the Schedule

Omit “Other refined or partly refined petroleum products, including mineral turpentine and lubricants (lubricant base oils), hydraulic oils, transformer oils and fuel, other than diesel, recovered by a process not being a process of refining:”, substitute “Other refined or partly refined petroleum products (including mineral turpentine, fuel and other recycled product) other than diesel recovered by a process not being a process of refining and product classified to item 15 of the Schedule:”.

3   After item 13 of the Schedule

Insert:

15.

Goods as follows, other than goods for use as a fuel:

 
 

(A) petroleum based oils (including lubricant base oils; prepared lubricant additives containing carrier oils; lubricants for engines, gear sets, pumps and bearings; hydraulic fluids; brake fluids; transmission oils; and transformer and heat transfer oils) and their synthetic equivalents but not including greases;

$0.05 per litre

 

(B) petroleum based oils (including lubricant base oils; prepared lubricant additives containing carrier oils; lubricants for engines, gear sets, pumps and bearings; greases; hydraulic fluids; brake fluids; transmission oils; and transformer and heat transfer oils) and their synthetic equivalents, recycled for use as oils (including lubricant base oils; prepared lubricant additives containing carrier oils; lubricants for engines, gear sets, pumps and bearings; hydraulic fluids; brake fluids; transmission oils; and transformer and heat transfer oils) but not including greases;

$0.05 per litre

 

(C) petroleum based greases and their synthetic equivalents;

$0.05 per kilogram

 

(D) petroleum based oils (including lubricant base oils; prepared lubricant additives containing carrier oils; lubricants for engines, gear sets, pumps and bearings; greases; hydraulic fluids; brake fluids; transmission oils; and transformer and heat transfer oils) and their synthetic equivalents, recycled for use as greases;

$0.05 per kilogram