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167B: Regulations setting fees and charges for purpose of Part 13 (clean vehicle standard) requirements to import vehicles with zero carbon dioxide emissions

You could also call this:

“Rules about fees for bringing in cars that don't make pollution”

You can make rules about fees and charges for car importers who don’t bring in enough cars that don’t produce any carbon dioxide. These rules are part of a plan to have cleaner cars in New Zealand.

The rules can set different fees for different types of cars. They can also do things like say which cars don’t count as light vehicles, or explain how to measure how much carbon dioxide a car produces.

Before making these rules, the person in charge (called the Minister) needs to ask other people what they think. The Minister also needs to make sure the fees will help get more cars that don’t produce carbon dioxide. They also need to think about New Zealand’s goals for fighting climate change.

If car importers don’t pay the fees, the government can try to get the money back as if it’s a debt owed to them.

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Part 11 Land transport secondary legislation
Regulations

167BRegulations setting fees and charges for purpose of Part 13 (clean vehicle standard) requirements to import vehicles with zero carbon dioxide emissions

  1. Without limiting the generality of section 167(1)(j), regulations for the purpose set out in section 170 may be made under section 167(1)(j) setting fees and charges payable by vehicle importers for not including, among the vehicles they imported in any given year, the minimum proportion of vehicles with zero carbon dioxide emissions required under regulations made under section 167C(1)(k).

  2. Subsection (1) is subject to subsection (6).

  3. Different rates of fees or charges, or both, may be prescribed or fixed in respect of different classes of vehicles or on any other differential basis.

  4. Regulations made under section 167(1)(j) for the purpose specified in subsection (1) may—

  5. do any of the things specified in section 168(4)(a), (aa), (ab), and (d) to (h):
    1. prescribe any vehicle or class of vehicle as excluded from the definition of light vehicle for the purposes of the regulations:
      1. apply, with any necessary modifications, provisions of this Act concerning the manner in which carbon dioxide emissions of vehicles must be determined for the purposes of the regulations:
        1. prescribe, for the purposes of applying section 174 in the regulations, how the carbon dioxide emissions of an imported vehicle must be determined, which may be in accordance with a land transport rule:
          1. provide for unpaid fees or charges to be recoverable as a debt due to the Crown.

            1. Before recommending the making of regulations, the Minister must consult such persons as the Minister considers appropriate.

            2. The Minister must not recommend the making of regulations unless the Minister is satisfied—

            3. that the fees and charges are appropriate to increase the supply and availability of vehicles with zero carbon dioxide emissions; and
              1. that the imposition and level of charges and fees are appropriate after considering international and domestic climate change ambitions and commitments.

                Notes
                • Section 167B: inserted, on , by section 8 of the Land Transport (Clean Vehicles) Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 2).
                • Section 167B(4): replaced, on , by section 6 of the Land Transport (Clean Vehicle Discount Scheme Repeal) Amendment Act 2023 (2023 No 66).