6ABApplicable petroleum prices

#### 6AB Applicable petroleum prices For the purposes of section 6B, 6C, 6CA or 6D, at any particular time the applicable petroleum price for a month occurring after 30 June 1997 in respect of stabilized crude petroleum oil or condensate, obtained from a production area, that is a prescribed production area, a prescribed new production area, a prescribed condensate production area or a prescribed intermediate production area, as the case requires, for the purposes of that section, is: (a) if at that time the final VOLWARE price for stabilized crude petroleum oil or condensate (as the case requires) for the month and an oil producing region that constitutes or includes that production area has been determined under section 7 of the Petroleum Excise (Prices) Act 1987—that final VOLWARE price; or (b) if at that time the final VOLWARE price for stabilized crude petroleum oil or condensate (as the case requires) has not been so determined—the interim VOLWARE price for stabilized crude petroleum oil or condensate (as the case requires) determined under that section for the month and an oil producing region that constitutes or includes that production area.