Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000

A person commits an offence if:

the person supplies fuel in Australia; and

the person is a constitutional corporation or a Commonwealth entity or the person supplies the fuel in the course of constitutional trade or commerce; and

the supply is subject to a fuel quality information standard; and

the supply does not comply with the fuel quality information standard; and

either:

if the person holds an approval that varies the fuel quality information standard in respect of the supply—the supply does not comply with the fuel quality information standard as varied; or

if another person holds an approval that varies the fuel quality information standard in respect of the supply by the person—the supply does not comply with the fuel quality information standard as varied; and

the supply is not in order to comply with a direction or order under an emergency law.

Subsection (1) is an offence of strict liability.

For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.