Bill
Petroleum and Other Fuels Reporting (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2017
passed, as at 2017-08-23. Environment and Energy portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Environment and Energy
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-03-30
- second reading — 2017-03-30
- second reading — 2017-08-15
- second reading — 2017-08-15
- third reading — 2017-08-15
- introduced — 2017-08-16
- second reading — 2017-08-16
- second reading — 2017-08-16
- second reading — 2017-08-16
- third reading — 2017-08-16
- passed — 2017-08-16
- royal assent — 2017-08-23
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2017-03-30.
This bill is part of a package that would make fuel companies report data on petroleum, biofuels and related products to the government.
The Minister for the Environment and Energy could order businesses to supply fuel information to the department secretary, with details set in ministerial rules.
The package would replace a voluntary survey that had falling participation, which weakened the reliability of fuel statistics used by agencies and international bodies.
- The bill would create a mandatory reporting regime for fuel statistics.
- It would empower the minister to require reporting from fuel businesses.
- It would protect confidential information with penalties of up to two years imprisonment for unauthorised disclosure.
Businesses that deal in petroleum, biofuels and fuel-related products would be required to report.
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