As the designated person for New Zealand, and in accordance with section 43(1) of the Australian Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997 (“Australian Act”), I endorse the proposed Regulations set out below for the purposes of section 45 of the Australian Act.

Dated this 30th day of October 2018.

Hon KRIS FAAFOI, Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

1. Name

This instrument is the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Amendment (Permanent Exemption for Emissions controlled Products) Regulations 2018.

2. Commencement

(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3. Authority

This instrument is made under section 45(3) of the Trans‑Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997.

4. Schedules

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Trans‑Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997

1. Clause 3 of Schedule 2 (at the end of the table)

Add:

Emissions-controlled products

Product Emissions Standards Rules 2017, to the extent that they deal with emissions-controlled products that are propulsion marine engines or non-road engines.