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DIESEL AND ALTERNATIVE FUELS GRANTS SCHEME AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2001 (NO. 2) 2001 NO. 200

STATUTORY RULES 2001 No. 200

Issued by authority of the Assistant Treasurer

Diesel and Alternative Fuels Grants Scheme Act 1999

Diesel and Alternative Fuels Grants Scheme Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 2)

Section 63 of the Diesel and Alternative Fuels Grants Scheme Act 1999 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations prescribing matters required to give effect to the Act.

The Act came into effect on 1 July 2000. The Act introduced a grant for certain on road use of diesel and alternative fuels to reduce transport costs to businesses in rural and regional Australia. The grant is available for all on-road use in vehicles weighing 20 tonnes or more and, with certain restrictions, for vehicles weighing between 4.5 tonnes and 20 tonnes used for transporting goods or passengers.

The purpose of the amending regulations was to revoke provisions which allowed automatic indexation of the rate of grant applicable to diesel and alternative fuels in line with the automatic indexation of the fuel excise rates. Fuels are no longer indexed following the passage of the Excise Tariff Amendment Bill No.2.

Regulation 7A of the Diesel and Alternative Fuels Grants Scheme Regulations 2000, which set out the periods and method of calculation under which the automatic indexation of the grant rates would occur in line with movements in the consumer price index, has been revoked.

Regulations 3 and 4 were also revised in order to remove a duplication relating to the definition of emergency vehicles, and to redraft other provisions into more straightforward terms.

The amending regulations commenced on gazettal.