32Adjustment of production allocations in certain cases where action taken under section 30 or 31

32 Adjustment of production allocations in certain cases where action taken under section 30 or 31

(1) If: (a) bountiable fuel ethanol is produced in a particular bounty year; and (b) a variation of a person’s claim in respect of that ethanol is made under section 30 or 31 after 31 July next following that year; and (c) the variation was necessary because the amount of bountiable fuel ethanol produced in that year or a part of that year was overstated in a claim, whether by inadvertence or otherwise; and (d) had the amount of bountiable fuel ethanol been correctly stated in the claim, the total production of bountiable fuel ethanol for the year would have been less than the person’s production allocation for the year; the person’s production allocation for any subsequent bounty year is the amount that it would have been if the statement of bountiable fuel ethanol in the claim had been correct. (2) If the overstatement was not an inadvertent one, this section does not imply that the overstatement may not be a ground for prosecuting the person or for cancelling the person’s registration.