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Rutendo Nyeve, Sunday News Reporter
THE Government has barred the sale of unleaded petrol through the introduction of Statutory Instrument (SI) 150 of 2024 which provides for the mandatory blending of anhydrous ethanol with unleaded petrol.
The SI which is a supplement to the Zimbabwean Government Gazette dated 30 August 2024 is set to take effect on 7 September 2024.
The SI is titled, Petroleum (Mandatory Blending of Anhydrous Ethanol with Unleaded Petrol) (Amendment) Regulations, 2024 (No. 6).
“It is hereby notified that the Minister of Energy and Power Development, after consultation with the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority has, in terms of section 57(1) of the Petroleum Act [Chapter 13:22], made the following regulations:-
“1. These regulations may be cited as the Petroleum (Mandatory Blending of Anhydrous Ethanol with Unleaded Petrol) (Amendment) Regulations, 2024 (No. 6).
- Section 3 of the Petroleum (Mandatory Blending of Anhydrous Ethanol with Unleaded Petrol) Regulations, 2013, published in Statutory Instrument 17 of 2013, is repealed and substituted by the following-
“3. (1) These regulations shall apply to all unleaded petrol imported into Zimbabwe,” reads the gazete.
The gazete further highlighted that it shall come into operation seven days from the date of publication of the regulations.
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