Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00166:section:6:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00166
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 6 (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 10566–13234

6  Oil producers to give certain information
 (1) An oil producer of excisable crude petroleum oil entered for home consumption during a particular month shall, in respect of each transaction entered into by the producer concerning that oil, give to the Minister such information as is prescribed.
 (1A) The information prescribed for the purposes of subsection (1) may differ according to whether or not the transaction entered into by the oil producer relates to excisable crude petroleum oil produced from a production area while that area is declared to be a limited production area.
 (1B) If, in respect of excisable crude petroleum oil produced by an oil producer from a particular production area:
 (a) the volume of that oil entered for home consumption before the end of each of 3 consecutive months (whether in the same financial year or not) is less than 80% of the free volume of excisable crude petroleum oil in respect of that month, worked out in accordance with subsection (1G); and
 (b) the Minister is satisfied that the volume of that oil likely to be entered for home consumption before the end of any future month is unlikely, having regard to production statistics and any other relevant factor known to the Minister, to exceed 80% of the free volume of that oil in respect of that future month, worked out in accordance with subsection (1G);
the Minister may declare in writing that production area to be a limited production area and, if the Minister does so, he or she must notify the oil producer concerned of that declaration.
 (1C) If, in respect of excisable crude petroleum oil produced by an oil producer from a particular production area:
 (a) paragraph (1B)(a) applies in respect of any period of 3 consecutive months; but
 (b) the Minister does not declare that production area to be a limited production area within 15 days after the end of that period;
the Minister is taken to have refused, under subsection (1B), to make that declaration.
 (1D) If, because the Minister does not declare a production area to be a limited production area within 15 days after the end of a period of 3 consecutive months, the Minister is taken, under subsection (1C), to have refused to make that declaration:
 (a) that subsection does not prevent the Minister making such a declaration, in accordance with subsection (1B), at the end of any period of 3 consecutive months to which paragraph (1B)(a) applies (a subsequent period) that ends after that first‑mentioned period; but
 (b) if the Minister does not, within 15 days after the end of a subsequent period, make such a declaration, the Minister is again taken to have refused, under subsection