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Authorities/Other Agencies of State
Notice Title

Denatured Ethanol Group Standard (Amendment) (No. 2) Notice 2007

Pursuant to section 96B of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996, the Environmental Risk Management Authority gives the following notice.
N o t i c e
1. Title—(1) This notice is the Denatured Ethanol Group Standard (Amendment) (No. 2) 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 on the date of notification in the New Zealand Gazette.
3. Amendment to principal notice—Omit clauses 3(4) and 3(5) of the principal notice and substitute:
“(4) Subject to subclause (5), a substance that is available for sale in New Zealand must only be denatured with one or more of the following:
(a) 0.5% by volume diethyl phthalate;
(b) 0.25% by volume of tertiary butyl alcohol;
(c) 1% by volume acetic acid;
(d) at least 1.5% and not more than 2% by volume methanol;
(e) 15.6 g denatonium benzoate per 1000 litres ethyl alcohol to be denatured (15.6 ppm);
(f) 10 grams of denatonium benzoate per 1000 litres of ethyl alcohol (10 ppm) together with the addition of at least 1.5% and not more than
2% by volume methanol;
(g) 0.25% by volume methyl isobutyl ketone together with 5 – 10g denatonium benzoate
per 1000 litres ethyl alcohol to be denatured
(5 – 10 ppm);
(h) 1% by volume of petrol (unleaded);
(i) 0.25% by volume tertiary butyl alcohol together with 10 g denatonium benzoate
per 1000 litres ethyl alcohol to be denatured (10 ppm).
(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), (g) and (i); and
(b) should, where practicable, also contain at least 1.56 ppm methyl violet.”
Dated at Wellington this 19th day of June 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 on the date of notification in the New Zealand Gazette, amends the Denatured Ethanol Group Standard 2006 to add an additional formulation of denatured ethanol permitted for sale to the general public, namely ethanol denatured
with 0.25% tertiary butyl alcohol together with 10 ppm denatonium benzoate.