Petroleum Products Act, 1977 (Act No. 120 of 1977)RegulationsRegulations for Biofuels Price1. Definitions |
In these Regulations, any word or expression to which a meaning has been assigned in the Act, has the same meaning, and unless the context otherwise indicates—
means a pricing mechanism used by the Department to determine the price of imported petroleum products;
means ethanol derived from plant materials (including crops, agricultural and forestry residues), animal residues, industrial and domestic/municipal waste as well as other organic and/or renewable resources. The ethanol must conform to the applicable SANS;
means a renewable fuel or fuel component derived from plant material (including crops, agricultural and forestry residues), animal residues, industrial and domestic/municipal waste as well as other organic and/or renewable resources. This renewable fuel or fuel component must conform to the applicable SANS;
means biodiesel or bioethanol;
menas a mixture of two or more compatible petroleum products having different properties, where one of the petroleum products is a biofuel and the other is petroleum diesel or a petroleum petrol, in order to produce a final petroleum product with desired attributes;
means a facility where biofuel blending is performed under a manufacturing licence in terms of the Act;
means the Central Energy Fund (SOC) Limited, a state-owned company established in terms of the Central Energy Fund Act, 1977 (Act No. 38 of 1977);
means the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources;
means a person licenced to manufacture biofuel in terms of the Act;
means a person licenced to manufacture petroleum petrol or petroleum diesel in terms of the Act.
means a geographic area that is published by the Minister to adjust the price of prescribed petroleum products based on the transportation costs, taxes, and other expenses associated with delivering prescribed petroleum products to another geographic area;
means the Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources;
means any permitted grade of diesel that has no biodiesel added to it;
menas any permitted grade of petrol that has no bio-ethanol added to it;
means the transfer price of biodiesel or bio-ethanol, as regulated by the Minister, charged by a licenced biofuels manufacturer to a licenced petroleum manufacturer in terms of regulation 2;
means a South African National Standard approved by the South African Bureau of Standards in terms of the Standards Act, 2008 (Act No. 8 of 2008);
means the tariff for providing storage and handling facilities of biofuel blend only, and determined by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa in terms of section 20(1) of the Petroleum Pipelines Act, 2003 (Act No. 120 of 1977);
means the maximum price which a licenced biofuels manufacturer shall be permitted to market the bio-ethanol or biodiesel to a licenced petroleum manufacturer within the Republic of South Africa; and
means the cents per litre amount approved by the Minister reflecting the cost of moving petroleum products from coastal port or refinery location to inland distribution centres by pipeline, rail or road.