Pursuant to section 96B of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996, the Environmental Risk Management Authority, on its own initiative, gives the following notice.
N o t i c e
1. Title—(1) This notice is the Denatured Ethanol Group Standard (Amendment) Notice 2007 and is part of the principal notice.
(2) In this notice, “principal notice” means the Denatured Ethanol Group Standard 2006 (at page 2073 of the Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette, 30 June 2006, No. 74, page 1889).
2. Commencement—This notice comes into force 28 days after the date on which it is notified in the New Zealand Gazette.
3. Amendment to principal notice—Omit clause 3(5) of the principal notice and substitute:
“(5) Notwithstanding subclause (4), a substance that is available for sale to the general public—
(a) must only be denatured with the specific formulations described in subclauses 4(e) and (g); and
(b) should, where practicable, also contain at least 1.56 ppm methyl violet
provided that a substance that is available for sale
to the general public may be denatured with the specific formulation designated in subclause (4)(f) up until the close of 21 June 2007.”
Dated at Wellington this 20th day of April 2007.
For and on behalf of the Environmental Risk Management Authority:
GEORGE CLARK, Deputy Chair.
Explanatory Note
This note is not part of the notice, but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This notice, which comes into force 28 days after the date of notification in the New Zealand Gazette, amends the Denatured Ethanol Group Standard 2006 following
the reassessment of methylated spirits, whereby the Environmental Risk Management Authority decided that formulations of denatured ethanol sold to the general public should not be permitted to contain methanol from 21 June 2007.