The Hydrocarbon Oil (Marking) Regulations 2002

PART I U.K. PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement U.K.

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Hydrocarbon Oil (Marking) Regulations 2002 and come into force on 1st August 2002.

Interpretation U.K.

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

• “the Act” means the Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979;

• “ASTM” means American Society for Testing and Materials;

• “Colour Index” means the Colour Index, compiled by the Society of Dyers and Colourists and the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists, published 1997, ISBN 0 90195 671 6;

• “the common fiscal marker” means N-Ethyl-N-[2-(1-isobutoxyethoxy)ethyl]-4-(phenylazo)aniline together with CI Solvent Yellow 124 as described in the Colour Index;

• [F1 “the common United Kingdom fiscal marker” means ((3-(sec-butyl)-4-(decyloxy)phenyl)methanetriyl)tribenzene]

• “coumarin” means 1:2 benzopyrone;

• “dark oil” means heavy oil that is darker than ASTM colour 3.0 in the Table of Glass Colour Standards included in “Standard method of Test for ASTM Colour of Petroleum Products” adopted as a joint ASTM-IP standard with ASTM designation D 1500-98 and IP designation IP 196/97, which appears in “IP Standard Methods”, when the heavy oil and ASTM Colour 3.0 are compared in the manner described in that publication for that method of test;

• “duty” means the excise duty charged on hydrocarbon oil by section 6(1) of the ActM1 [F2 or, as the case may be, on bioblend under section 6AB of the Act];

• “heavy oil vehicle” means a vehicle to which section 12 of the Act M2 (rebate not allowed on fuel for road vehicles) applies;

• “IP” means Institute of Petroleum;

• “IP Standard Methods” means “IP Standard Methods for Analysis and Testing of Petroleum and Related Products and British Standard 2000 Parts 2002”, 61st edition, May 2002, published by the Institute of Petroleum, ISBN 0 85293 348 7;

• “kerosene” means heavy oil of which more than 50% by volume distils at a temperature not exceeding 240°C;

• “marker” means, except where the context requires otherwise, a marker or colouring substance prescribed by these Regulations and includes, in regulation 10, a composite solution of the type referred to in regulation 9;

• “oil” means hydrocarbon oil;

• “quinizarin” means 1,4-dihydroxyanthraquinone;

• “solvent red” means CI Solvent Red 24 as described in the Colour Index.

(2) Any reference in these Regulations to marked oil [F3 or bioblend means oil or bioblend] to which a marker has been added and related expressions must be construed accordingly.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (1.4.2015) by The Hydrocarbon Oil (Marking and Designated Markers) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/36), regs. 1, 3(1)

F2 Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (1.4.2008) by The Hydrocarbon Oil, Biofuels and Other Fuel Substitutes (Determination of Composition of a Substance and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/753), regs. 1(2), 6(2)(a)

F3 Words in reg. 2(2) substituted (1.4.2008) by The Hydrocarbon Oil, Biofuels and Other Fuel Substitutes (Determination of Composition of a Substance and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/753), regs. 1(2), 6(2)(b)

Marginal Citations

M1 Section 6(1) was amended by the Finance Act 1981 (c. 35), section 4, the Finance Act 1982 (c. 39), section 4, the Finance Act 1989 (c. 26), section 1, the Finance Act 1990 (c. 29), Schedule 19, Part I, the Finance Act 1997 (c. 16), section 7 and the Finance Act 1998 (c. 36), section 6.

M2 Section 12 was amended by the Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), section 5.