Section 15E: Blending ethanol with mogas
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;
“hydrous alcohol” means Rectified Ethanol Neutral Spirits (REN) for
96.4 per cent by volume of ethanol.
[S. 15E inserted by s. 9 of Act 34 of 2016 w.e.f. 1 January 2017.]
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