New Zealand Legislation: Bills

10 Regulations

• (1) Section 35(1)(c) is amended by omitting “specifications” and substituting “standards or specifications (including environmental or sustainability standards or specifications)”.

  (2) Section 35(1) is amended by repealing paragraph (d) and substituting the following paragraphs:

  • “(d) requiring persons who sell engine fuel or refined petroleum products to consumers to display or provide information about the price, quality, sustainability, suitability, quantity, or nature of a class or classes of refined petroleum products or engine fuel:

  • “(da) requiring persons who sell engine fuel to consumers not to promote or advertise that the engine fuel contains biofuel if the engine fuel comprises, by volume, a certain percentage of biofuel that is not more than 1%:”.

  (3) Section 35(1) is amended by inserting the following paragraphs after paragraph (e):

  • “(ea) providing for accreditation, certification, and verification for the purposes of section 34N and the regulations made under this Act:

  • “(eb) prescribing default energy content values for the purposes of section 34N:

  • “(ec) prescribing forms for notices of entitlement and the information to be included in those notices for the purposes of section 34R:

  • “(ec) prescribing or making provision for—

    • “(i) the form of notices of entitlement, which may be in any form acceptable to the Secretary:

    • “(ii) the information to be contained in or provided with notices of entitlement for the purposes of section 34R:

    • “(iii) the manner in which that information is to be provided:

  • “(ed) prescribing forms for annual returns and the information to be contained in them for the purposes of section 34U:

  • “(ed) prescribing or making provision for—

    • “(i) the form in which annual returns must be provided, which may be in any form acceptable to the Secretary:

    • “(ii) the information to be contained in or provided with annual returns for the purposes of section 34U:

    • “(iii) the manner in which that information is to be provided:

  • “(eda) prescribing or making provision for the form and manner in which the information required under section 34U(4A) must be published:

  • “(edb) prescribing or making provision for an auditor's statutory declaration for the purposes of section 34V(1):

  • “(ee) prescribing the records that are required to be kept under section 35B and the length of time they must be kept:

  • “(ef) prescribing the form of search warrants issued under section 37A:”.

  (3A) Section 35 is amended by inserting the following subsection after subsection (1):

  • “(1A) Different forms for the purposes of Part 3A may be prescribed in respect of different classes of obliged persons.”

  (4) Section 35(2) is amended by inserting “or an Order in Council made under section 34F, 34G, or 34H” after “subsection (1)”.