Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

LIQUID FUEL EMERGENCY ACT 1984 - SECT 25

             (1)  A direction under subsection 21(1) or 22(1) requiring a refined liquid petroleum product to be made available for purchase in a State or Territory shall not make provision for the determination of the price, or the maximum price, at which persons to whom that direction is given:

                     (a)  may make that product available for purchase in that State or Territory in accordance with that direction; or

                     (b)  may make available for purchase services in connection with the making available for purchase of that product in that State or Territory in accordance with that direction.

             (2)  A direction under subsection 23(1) or 24(1) regulating or prohibiting the supply of a refined liquid petroleum product shall not make provision for the determination of the price, or the maximum price, at which persons to whom that direction is given:

                     (a)  may supply that product in accordance with that direction; or

                     (b)  may supply services in connection with the supply of that product in accordance with that direction.

             (3)  It is the intention of the Parliament that, without limiting the generality of section 51, this Act shall not apply to the exclusion of a law of a State or Territory in so far as that law makes:

                     (a)  in relation to a refined liquid petroleum product in respect of which a direction might be given under subsection 21(1) or 22(1)--provision of the kind referred to in subsection (1) of this section; or

                     (b)  in relation to a refined liquid petroleum product of a kind in respect of which a direction might be given under subsection 23(1) or 24(1)--provision of the kind referred to in subsection (2) of this section.