Section 15E: Blending ethanol with mogas
This section is inserted by Act No 34 of 2016, section 9.
consolidated text (as at 2017, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
15E. Blending ethanol with mogas
(1) Notwithstanding any other enactment, a mandatory
blending of hydrous or anhydrous ethanol with mogas shall be
carried out by all mogas companies having as main operation the
distribution of mogas.
(2) The mandatory blending shall be effective on such date
as may be prescribed.
(3) The percentage of hydrous or anhydrous ethanol, as
the case may be, added to mogas shall be determined pursuant to
regulations made under the Consumer Protection (Price and Supplies
Control) Act.
(4) The percentage referred to in subsection (3) shall not be
less than 2.5 per cent.
(5) In this section –
“anhydrous alcohol” has the same meaning as in the
Excise Act;
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“hydrous alcohol” means Rectified Ethanol Neutral
Spirits (REN) for 96.4 per cent by volume of ethanol.