Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00325:section:5:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00325
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 5 (pt 1/4)
Character Range: 6388–9200

5  Definitions
 (1) In this Act:
affected: see subsection 13C(2).
Agreement means the Agreement on an International Energy Program, done at Paris on 18 November 1974.
Note: The Agreement is in Australian Treaty Series 1979 No. 7 ([1979] ATS 7) and could in 2017 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (http://www.austlii.edu.au).
civil penalty provision has the same meaning as in the Regulatory Powers Act.
commercial‑in‑confidence has the meaning given by section 6.
constitutional corporation means a corporation to which paragraph 51(xx) of the Constitution applies.
constitutional trade and commerce means the following:
 (a) trade or commerce between Australia and places outside Australia;
 (b) trade or commerce among the States;
 (c) trade or commerce within a Territory, between a State and a Territory or between 2 Territories.
covered activity means:
 (a) producing a covered product; or
 (b) refining a covered product; or
 (c) wholesaling a covered product; or
 (d) holding stock of a covered product; or
 (e) importing a covered product; or
 (f) exporting a covered product; or
 (g) any other activity, in relation to a covered product, prescribed by the rules for the purposes of this paragraph.
covered product means:
 (a) crude oil; or
 (b) condensate; or
 (c) liquefied petroleum gas; or
 (d) natural gas liquid; or
 (e) gasoline; or
 (f) diesel; or
 (g) kerosene; or
 (h) fuel oil; or
 (i) heating oil; or
 (j) naphtha; or
 (k) compressed natural gas; or
 (l) liquefied natural gas; or
 (m) an oil, lubricant or grease; or
 (n) paraffin wax; or
 (o) a petroleum‑based solvent; or
 (p) petroleum coke; or
 (q) bitumen; or
 (r) biofuel; or
 (s) hydrogen; or
 (t) any other fuel prescribed by the rules for the purposes of this paragraph; or
 (u) any other fuel‑related product prescribed by the rules for the purposes of this paragraph.
entrusted person means:
 (a) the Secretary; or
 (b) an APS employee in the Department; or
 (c) any other person employed or engaged by the Department.
fuel means any product that produces energy through a chemical reaction.
Note: Examples of a fuel include petroleum, hydrogen and biofuel.
fuel information means:
 (a) any raw data, or any value added information product, that relates to:
 (i) covered activities; or
 (ii) the quantity, quality or characteristics of covered products; or
 (iii) the holding (within the meaning of section 19 of the Fuel Security Act 2021) of stocks of covered products that are MSO products (within the meaning of that Act); or
 (b) any metadata that describes data of a kind referred to in paragraph (a);
and includes contextual information relating to covered products (such as the location, control and ownership of covered products).
fuel‑related product means a product that is not a fuel,