{"id":"F2024L01261","name":"Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Rotary Clothes Dryers) Determination 2024","slug":"greenhouse-and-energy-minimum-standards-rotary-clothes-dryers-determination-2024","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":442597,"registerId":"F2024L01261-fast-fetch-1775957569387","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Rotary Clothes Dryers) Determination 2024","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nGreenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Rotary Clothes Dryers) Determination 2024\n\nI, Josh Wilson, Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy, make the following determination.\n\nDated  10 September 2024  \n\nJosh Wilson\n\nAssistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nContents\n\n1  Name\n\n2  Commencement\n\n3  Authority\n\n4  Schedules\n\n5  This instrument revokes and replaces the old determination\n\n6  Definitions\n\n7  Specified product class covered by this instrument\n\n8  GEMS level requirements\n\n9  GEMS labelling requirements\n\n10  Transitional GEMS labelling requirements\n\n11  Other GEMS requirements\n\n12  Families of models\n\n13  Product categories\n\n14  This instrument does not affect registrations under the old determination\n\nSchedule 1—Repeals\n\nGreenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Rotary Clothes Dryers) Determination 2015\n\n \n\n \n\nCOPYRIGHT\n\n \n\n© 2024 Commonwealth of Australia\n\n \n\nThis instrument includes material from Australian Standards and/or Australian/New Zealand Standards, which are copyright Standards Australia Ltd. 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For clarity, you are permitted to use this instrument in the above manner to comply with your obligations under it.\n\n \n\nComplete Australian/New Zealand Standards are available for purchase from Standards Australia Ltd. Requests and inquiries concerning other reproduction and rights pertaining to standards should be directed to Standards Australia Ltd.\n\n \n\n\n\n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Rotary Clothes Dryers) Determination 2024.\n\n2  Commencement\n\n (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.\n\n \n\n- Commencement information\n- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3\n- Provisions Commencement Date/Details\n- 1. The whole of this instrument The day after the end of the period of 12 months beginning on the day this instrument is registered.\n\n\n (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.\n\n (3) To avoid doubt, for the purposes of paragraph 34(b) of the Act, this instrument comes into force on the day specified in column 2 of the table.\n\n3  Authority\n\n  This instrument is made under sections 23 and 35 of the Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards Act 2012.\n\n4  Schedules\n\n  Each instrument 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.\n\n5  This instrument revokes and replaces the old determination\n\n  For the purposes of section 35 of the Act, this instrument revokes and replaces the old determination.\n\nNote: Subsection 35(2) of the Act provides that, when a GEMS determination is revoked and replaced, the revoked determination ceases to be in force immediately before the replacement determination comes into force.\n\n6  Definitions\n\nNote: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following:\n\n● category A product;\n\n● covered by;\n\n● family of models;\n\n● GEMS;\n\n● GEMS labelling requirements;\n\n● GEMS level requirements;\n\n● model;\n\n● product classes;\n\n● supply.\n\n  In this instrument:\n\nAct means the Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards Act 2012.\n\nAS/NZS 2442.1:2021 means Australian/New Zealand Standard 2442.1:2021 Performance of household electrical appliances – Rotary clothes dryers – Part 1: Methods for measuring performance, energy and water consumption, as in force or existing on the day this instrument is made.\n\nNote 1: AS/NZS 2442.1:2021 is available from Standards Australia Limited.\n\nNote 2: AS/NZS 2442.1:2021 includes all amendments up to and including AS/NZS 2442.1:2021 Amd 2:2024 made on 23 February 2024.\n\nAS/NZS 2442.2:2021 means Australian/New Zealand Standard 2442.2:2021 Performance of household electrical appliances – Rotary clothes dryers – Part 2: Energy efficiency labelling requirements, as in force or existing on the day this instrument is made.\n\nNote 1: AS/NZS 2442.2:2021 is available from Standards Australia Limited.\n\nNote 2: AS/NZS 2442.2:2021 includes all amendments up to and including AS/NZS 2442.2:2021 Amd 3:2022 made on 26 August 2022.\n\nAustralian/New Zealand Standard means a standard that is jointly published by Standards Australia Limited and Standards New Zealand, is applicable in both countries and denoted by the letters “AS/NZS” and identifying numbers and/or letters.\n\ncommencement day means the day this instrument commences.\n\ncondenser rotary clothes dryer:\n\n (a) means an electric appliance for the tumble-drying of clothing by which heated air is passed through the load while it is being tumbled and the water vapour thus accumulated is separated from the air within the dryer, is converted to a liquid and the liquid is either drained or stored for later removal; and\n\n (b) includes a heat pump condenser rotary clothes dryer.\n\nNote: Paragraph (a) reflects the meaning of “condenser dryer(s)” in clause 1.4.4.1 of AS/NZS 2442.1:2021 and AS/NZS 2442.2:2021.\n\nenergy rating label means a label that provides consumers with information concerning the energy consumption and energy efficiency of household rotary clothes dryers and that meets the requirements mentioned in:\n\n (a) section 2 of AS/NZS 2442.2:2021 (Test requirements, calculations and algorithms for the energy rating label); and\n\n (b) section 5 of AS/NZS 2442.2:2021 (Content, format and affixing energy rating labels).\n\nNote 1: This is the same meaning as in clause 1.4.6 of AS/NZS 2442.1:2021 and clause 1.4.5 of AS/NZS 2442.2:2021.\n\nNote 2: Examples of energy rating labels are shown in Figures 5.3 and 5.4 of AS/NZS 2442.2:2021.\n\nGEMS retail premises means any premises:\n\n (a) that are GEMS business premises because of paragraph (a) of the definition of GEMS business premises in section 5 of the Act; and\n\n (b) at which products that are covered by this instrument are displayed for the purposes of retail supply or offers of retail supply.\n\nold determination means the Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Rotary Clothes Dryers) Determination 2015.\n\nrated load capacity means the maximum mass of textile material, stated by the manufacturer for the applicable load material (measured in multiples of 0.5 kilograms) which the manufacturer claims can be treated in all operations by a rotary clothes dryer.\n\nNote 1: This is the same meaning as in clause 1.4.13 of AS/NZS 2442.1:2021 and clause 1.4.12 of AS/NZS 2442.2:2021.\n\nNote 2: The rated load capacity is ordinarily claimed in the rotary clothes dryer’s product literature. For example, the operating manual.\n\nrotary clothes dryer means one of the following appliances:\n\n (a) a condenser rotary clothes dryer;\n\n (b) a vented rotary clothes dryer;\n\n (c) an electric appliance which includes both washing and clothes drying functions and in which the drying function operates by the same method as a condenser rotary clothes dryer or vented rotary clothes dryer.\n\nvented rotary clothes dryer means an electric appliance for the tumble-drying of clothing by which heated air is passed through the load while it is being tumbled, and this air and accumulated water vapour is discharged from the dryer into the atmosphere.\n\nNote: This is the same meaning as “vented dryer(s)” in clause 1.4.4.2 of AS/NZS 2442.1:2021 and AS/NZS 2442.2:2021.\n\nstar rating index means an indication of the claimed energy efficiency of a model determined in accordance with clause 2.7 of AS/NZS 2442.2:2021.\n\nNote: This is the same meaning as in clauses 1.4.20 and 2.7 of AS/NZS 2442.2:2021.\n\n7  Specified product class covered by this instrument\n\n (1) This instrument covers electric household rotary clothes dryers, irrespective of the context in which the dryers are used.\n\nNote 1: For example, this instrument covers electric household rotary clothes dryers used in a commercial context.\n\nNote 2: This section affects the scope of AS/NZS 2442.1:2021 and AS/NZS 2442.2:2021 see clause 1.1 of those Australian/New Zealand Standards.\n\n (2) The products covered by this instrument form a single product class for the purposes of the Act.\n\n8  GEMS level requirements\n\nEnergy use and greenhouse gas production\n\n (1) For the purposes of paragraphs 24(1)(a) and 25(a) of the Act, the specified energy use requirements for products covered by this instrument are the requirements mentioned in clause 4.4 of AS/NZS 2442.1:2021.\n\nConducting tests\n\n (2) For the purposes of paragraphs 24(1)(a) and 25(b) of the Act, the specified requirements for conducting tests for products covered by this instrument are the requirements mentioned in sections 2 and 3 of AS/NZS 2442.1:2021.\n\n9  GEMS labelling requirements\n\n (1) This section specifies, for the purposes of paragraph 24(1)(b) of the Act, GEMS labelling requirements for products covered by this instrument.\n\nLabelling and communication requirements\n\n (2) For the purposes of paragraphs 26(1)(a) and (b) of the Act, the requirements mentioned in section 5 of AS/NZS 2442.2:2021 are specified for the products.\n\n (3) For the purposes of paragraphs 26(1)(a) and (b) of the Act, at the time of retail supply, or offer of retail supply, of those products at a GEMS retail premises, an energy rating label must accompany the product or its packaging.\n\nConducting tests\n\n (4) For the purposes of paragraph 26(1)(c) of the Act, the specified requirements for conducting tests for products covered by this instrument are the requirements mentioned in section 2 of AS/NZS 2442.2:2021.\n\nImpact of replacement determination\n\n (5) A GEMS labelling requirement of this instrument (the revoked requirement) is taken to be complied with if:\n\n (a) this instrument is revoked in accordance with paragraph 35(1)(a) of the Act; and\n\n (b) another GEMS determination (the replacement determination) is made in accordance with paragraph 35(1)(b) of the Act; and\n\n (c) a transitional GEMS labelling requirement (the replacement requirement) of the replacement determination provides that, if the replacement requirement is complied with, the revoked requirement is taken to be complied with.\n\n10  Transitional GEMS labelling requirements\n\n (1) The requirements of this section are made for the purposes of paragraph 26(2)(c) of the Act.\n\nNote:  The purpose mentioned in paragraph 26(2)(c) of the Act is providing a transition to regulation of products in the product class under a GEMS determination (including because the products were not previously covered by a GEMS determination or because the GEMS determination is a replacement determination). Under the Act, a requirement of a GEMS determination that is expressed to be made for this purpose is a “transitional GEMS labelling requirement”.\n\n (2) This section applies to a product covered by this instrument if:\n\n (a) the model of the product was registered (whether under this instrument or the old determination) before the commencement day; and\n\n (b) the product is supplied or offered for supply while the registration is in force.\n\nNote: For paragraph (b), see Division 5 of Part 5 of the Act for when a registration is in force.\n\n (3) This section applies irrespective of whether:\n\n (a) the supply or offer for supply is before, on or after the commencement day; or\n\n (b) the product was imported into, or the product’s last process of manufacture is performed in, Australia before, on or after the commencement day.\n\n (4) The product must comply with the GEMS labelling requirements of either:\n\n (a) this instrument; or\n\n (b) the old determination.\n\n11  Other GEMS requirements\n\nProduct performance\n\n (1) For the purposes of subsection 24(2) and paragraph 27(1)(b) of the Act, the specified requirements relating to the performance of products covered by this instrument are the requirements mentioned in the following clauses of AS/NZS 2442.2:2021:\n\n (a) 3.2 (Drying clothes in a single operation);\n\n (b) 3.3 (Maximum fabric temperature).\n\nConducting tests\n\n (2) For the purposes of subsection 24(2) and paragraph 27(1)(e) of the Act, the specified requirements for conducting tests for products covered by this instrument, in relation to the requirements specified in subsection (1) of this section, are the requirements mentioned in the following clauses of AS/NZS 2442.2:2021:\n\n (a) 3.2 (Drying clothes in a single operation);\n\n (b) 3.3 (Maximum fabric temperature).\n\n12  Families of models\n\n (1) For the purposes of section 28 of the Act, for the product class covered by this instrument, 2 or more models are in the same family of models if:\n\n (a) the models are members of a family that has been declared to the GEMS Regulator; and\n\n (b) the requirements of this section are satisfied in relation to the models.\n\n (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the models must:\n\n (a) have the same energy performance characteristics relevant to complying with sections 8, 9 and 11, including, but not limited to:\n\n (i) comparative energy consumption (within the meaning of AS/NZS 2442.2:2021); and\n\n (ii) star rating index; and\n\n (b) have the same physical characteristics relevant to complying with sections 8, 9 and 11, including, but not limited to rated load capacity; and\n\n (c) rely on a single test report which was prepared prior to the application for registration for the model being made under section 41 of the Act.\n\n13  Product categories\n\n  For the purposes of subsection 29(1) of the Act, the products covered by this instrument are category A products.\n\n14  This instrument does not affect registrations under the old determination\n\n  For the purposes of paragraph 36(1)(c) of the Act, this instrument does not affect the registration of any model registered against the old determination.\n\nNote: If a model’s registration is not affected, the model is taken to be registered against this instrument: see subsection 36(2) of the Act.  \n\n\nSchedule 1—Repeals\n\nGreenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (Rotary Clothes Dryers) Determination 2015\n\n1  The whole of the instrument\n\nRepeal the instrument.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a straightforward re-enactment and update of the 2015 Determination. The scope remains limited to electric household rotary clothes dryers. While the coverage explicitly extends to commercial use of household-type dryers (section 7(1) note), this is not an expansion beyond the original intent—it merely clarifies that 'household' refers to the product type, not the setting. The instrument maintains the same product class structure and regulatory approach as its predecessor."},"complexity_factors":["Heavy reliance on incorporated external standards (AS/NZS 2442.1:2021 and AS/NZS 2442.2:2021) rather than spelling out technical requirements in the instrument itself","Multiple cross-references to the parent Act (Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards Act 2012) for key concepts like 'GEMS business premises', 'category A product', and registration mechanics","Conditional transitional provisions in section 10 with nested criteria (registration timing, supply timing, import/manufacture timing)","Defined terms section with 10 explicit definitions plus references to Act definitions, including technical terms like 'star rating index' and 'rated load capacity'","Family of models provisions (section 12) requiring identical energy and physical characteristics plus single test report","Revocation and replacement mechanics (sections 5, 14, Schedule 1) creating interaction effects between old and new determinations"],"plain_english_summary":"This Determination updates Australia’s rules for electric rotary clothes dryers (including washer-dryer combos), replacing the 2015 version. It requires dryers sold here to meet new minimum energy-performance standards, display energy-rating labels, properly dry without overheating, and be registered with the GEMS Regulator.\n\nIt affects manufacturers, importers, retailers and shoppers, aiming to cut household energy costs and emissions. Transitional arrangements let existing registered models comply temporarily under the old or new rules."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":5,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The product-class scope remains a single class covering electric household rotary clothes dryers (s 7). The instrument replaces the 2015 determination (s 5) and updates the technical references and specific test, labelling and performance requirements (ss 6, 8–11) while preserving existing registrations through transitional provisions (ss 10, 14)."},"complexity_factors":["Reliance on external technical standards (AS/NZS 2442.1:2021 and AS/NZS 2442.2:2021) for tests, calculations and label format (s 6, ss 8–11)","Cross-references to multiple provisions of the GEMS Act for legal effect and commencement (ss 2, 3, 5)","Technical testing, energy-use and performance requirements that require laboratory verification (ss 8, 11)","Detailed labelling obligations at point of retail supply and transitional labelling provisions (ss 9–10)","Family-of-models and single-test-report rules that affect registration strategy and compliance burden (s 12)","Transitional and registration continuity provisions affecting existing model registrations (ss 10, 14)","Definitions and product-scope language that determine coverage (ss 6–7)"],"plain_english_summary":"This determination updates GEMS rules for electric household rotary clothes dryers by referencing AS/NZS 2442.1:2021 and AS/NZS 2442.2:2021 and revoking the 2015 determination (ss 5–9). Manufacturers, importers and retailers must test, register and display energy rating labels; compliance costs for testing, labelling and registration fall on suppliers, and the GEMS Regulator controls families of models and registration rules (ss 9, 10, 12, 14)."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. 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