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Land Transport Act 1998

Clean vehicle standard - Clean vehicle standard - Category 1 light vehicle importers: obligations and ways of complying with targets

176: Category 1 light vehicle importers: annual, fleet-based compliance regime applies

You could also call this:

“Rules for bringing cars into New Zealand to help reduce pollution”

If you are a category 1 light vehicle importer, you need to follow some rules about the vehicles you bring into New Zealand each year. These rules are about reducing the amount of carbon dioxide that vehicles produce.

You have to meet certain targets for the vehicles you import. These targets apply separately to two types of vehicles: Type A and Type B. If you import both types, you need to meet the targets for each type.

When you import vehicles, you need to make sure that the average amount of carbon dioxide produced by all the vehicles you bring in (called a fleet) is not more than the target set for your type of business. There’s a special calculation that the government uses to work out what your target should be.

The aim is to make sure that the vehicles being brought into New Zealand are producing less carbon dioxide overall, which is better for the environment.

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Part 13 Clean vehicle standard
Clean vehicle standard: Category 1 light vehicle importers: obligations and ways of complying with targets

176Category 1 light vehicle importers: annual, fleet-based compliance regime applies

  1. A category 1 light vehicle importer must comply with the targets on an annual basis in relation to the fleet of Type A vehicles, the fleet of Type B vehicles, or (if they imported both Type A and Type B vehicles) each of those fleets of vehicles they imported in the relevant obligation year.

  2. The actual average vehicle carbon dioxide emissions across a fleet of vehicles imported by a category 1 light vehicle importer in an obligation year must be less than or equal to the category 1 light vehicle importer fleet target applicable to that importer for the relevant vehicle type of that fleet, calculated in accordance with the formula prescribed by the regulations.

Notes
  • Section 176: inserted, on , by section 10 of the Land Transport (Clean Vehicles) Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 2).