Petroleum Products Amendment Act 46 of 1993

Petroleum Products Amendment Act, 1993 (No. 46 of 1993)

GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE:
[ ] Words in bold type in square brackets indicate omissions from existing enactments. 
__Words underlined with a solid line indicate insertions in existing enactments.

Act

• to amend the Petroleum Products Act, 1977, so as to extend the power of the Minister to make regulations; and
• to provide for matters connected therewith.

(Afrikaans text signed by the State President.)
(Assented to 25 March 1993.)

BE IT ENACTED by the State President and the Parliament of the Republic of South Afnca, as follows:-

Amendment of section 2 of Act 120 of 1977, as amended by section 1 of Act 72 of 1979, section 2 of Act 61 of 1985 and section 2 of Act 68 of 1991

1. Section 2 of the Petroleum Products Act, 1977, is hereby amended-

(a) by the substitution for paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of the following paragraph:

"(d) regulate in such manner as he may deem fit, or prohibit, any business practice, method of trading, agreement, arrangement, scheme or understanding which, in the opinion of the Minister, is calculated-

(i) to influence, or which may have the effect of influencing, directly or indirectly, the purchase or selling price of petroleum [fuel] products at any outlet; or

(ii) to cause, or which may have the effect of causing, directly or indirectly, an increase in the price referred to in paragraph (c);"; and

(b) by the substitution for paragraph (e) of subsection (1) of the following paragraph:

"(e) regulate in such manner ashe may deem fit the supply of any petroleum [fuel] product to any business or undertaking conducted at any outlet, including the imposition of conditions relating to the price at which such product may be sold to such business or undertaking or at such outlet, or prohibit such supply.".

Short title

2. This Act shall be called the Petroleum Products Amendment Act, 1993.

Commencement

16 April 1993