Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01266:clause:1_6:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01266
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 6 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 4235–7254

6  Definitions
Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following:
● category A product;
● covered by;
● family of models;
● GEMS;
● GEMS labelling requirements;
● GEMS level requirements;
● model;
● product classes;
● supply.
  In this instrument:
Act means the Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards Act 2012.
AS/NZS 2040.1:2021 means Australian/New Zealand Standard 2040.1:2021 Performance of household electrical appliances – Clothes washing machines – Part 1: Methods for measuring performance, energy and water consumption, as in force or existing on the day this instrument is made.
Note: AS/NZS 2040.1:2021 is available from Standards Australia Limited.
AS/NZS 2040.2:2021 means Australian/New Zealand Standard 2040.2:2021 Performance of household electrical appliances – Clothes washing machines – Part 2: Energy efficiency labelling requirements, as in force or existing on the day this instrument is made.
Note: AS/NZS 2040.2:2021 is available from Standards Australia Limited.
Australian/New Zealand Standard means a standard that is jointly published by Standards Australia Limited and Standards New Zealand, is applicable in both countries and denoted by the letters "AS/NZS" and identifying numbers and/or letters.
automatic fill control means a mechanism that automatically controls the amount of water delivered into a clothes washing machine for each fill operation.
commencement day means the day this instrument commences.
clothes washing machine means an appliance designed to wash textile materials in water by mechanical and chemical action, and extract water therefrom, usually by centrifugal action.
Note: This is the same meaning as in clause 1.4.3 of AS/NZS 2040.1:2021 and AS/NZS 2040.2:2021.
energy rating label means a label that provides consumers with information concerning the energy consumption and energy efficiency of household clothes washing machines and that meets the requirements mentioned in:
 (a) section 2 of AS/NZS 2040.2:2021 (Test requirements, calculations and algorithms for the energy rating label); and
 (b) section 5 of AS/NZS 2040.2:2021 (Content, format and affixing energy rating labels).
Note 1: This is the same meaning as in clause 1.4.9 of AS/NZS 2040.1:2021 and clause 1.4.5 of AS/NZS 2040.2:2021.
Note 2: Examples of energy rating labels are shown in Figures 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5 of AS/NZS 2040.2:2021.
GEMS retail premises means any premises:
 (a) that are GEMS business premises because of paragraph (a) of the definition of GEMS business premises in section 5 of the Act; and
 (b) at which products that are covered by this instrument are displayed for the purposes of retail supply or offers of retail supply.
old determination means the Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Clothes Washing Machines) Determination 2015.
PAEC (short for projected annual energy consumption) means the PAEC of a clothes washing machine, as calculated in accordance with AS/NZS 2040:2:2021 and measured in kilowatt-hours