Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Fuel Prices Regulation Act 1981 - SECT 9

Transactions may be declared to be sales

9. Transactions may be declared to be sales



(1) The Commissioner may, by order published in the Government Gazette,
declare that, where a person (in this section referred to as the agent)
purchases fuel (whether declared fuel or not) as agent, or purported agent,
for another person (in this section referred to as the principal) and
processes or treats the fuel and delivers fuel resulting from the processing
or treatment to the principal, the carrying out of the agency (or purported
agency) and the performance of the other services by the agent shall, for the
purposes of this Act, be deemed to be a sale of the fuel so delivered by the
agent to the principal at a price equal to the sum of the amounts paid or
payable by the principal to the agent in respect of the agency and services
(including the price paid by the agent for the fuel purchased by him) and the
order shall, for the purposes of this Act, have effect according to its tenor.

(2) The Commissioner may, either generally by order published in the
Government Gazette, or specifically by notice in writing, exempt any person or
class of persons from the operation of any order made under this section.