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Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928

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20Provisions as to apparatus for and method of testing petroleum

(1)Models of the apparatus for testing petroleum, of which specifications are contained respectively in Part I of the Second Schedule to this Act and in the First Schedule to the [42 & 43 Vict. c. 47.] Petroleum Act, 1879, shall remain deposited with the Board of Trade, and the Board shall, on payment of such fee, not exceeding twenty shillings, as the Board may from time to time prescribe, cause every apparatus constructed in accordance with either such specification which is submitted to them for the purpose to be compared with the appropriate model so deposited and to be verified, and shall stamp with a mark approved by the Board and notified in the London Gazette every such apparatus that is found to be correct, so, however, that no apparatus constructed in accordance with the specification contained in the First Schedule to the Petroleum Act, 1879, shall after the commencement of this Act be so verified and stamped unless it has been previously verified and stamped on or before the third day of August, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.

(2)No apparatus for testing petroleum stamped by the Board of Trade in accordance with the provisions of this section shall be deemed to have been verified by the Board unless—

(a)it has been stamped within ten years; and

(b)no part of the apparatus has been materially altered, repaired, or replaced since the apparatus was last stamped

but save as aforesaid all such apparatus purporting to be so stamped shall be deemed to have been verified by the Board until the contrary is proved.

(3)All fees payable under this section shall be paid into the Exchequer.

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