Excise Laws Amendment (Fuel Tax Reform and Other Measures) Act 2006 (74 of 2006)

Schedule 1   Amendments

Part 1   Amendments

Energy Grants (Cleaner Fuels) Scheme Act 2004

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4A Definition of renewable diesel

(1) For the purposes of this Act, renewable diesel means liquid fuel that:

(a) is manufactured by chemically altering vegetable oils or animal fats (including recycled oils from these sources) through a process of hydrogenation (whether or not that process was part of some other process); and

(b) complies with the applicable fuel standard for diesel.

(2) If:

(a) a quantity of liquid fuel (the final fuel ) is manufactured; and

(b) a part of the final fuel was manufactured by chemically altering vegetable oils or animal fats (including recycled oils from these sources) through a process of hydrogenation; and

(c) a part of the final fuel is diesel; and

(d) the final fuel satisfies the applicable fuel standard for diesel;

then the amount of the final fuel worked out in accordance with the regulations is taken to be renewable diesel for the purposes of this Act.