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Section 24(1).
Textual Amendments
F1Words repealed by Finance Act 1981 (c. 35, SIF 40:1), s. 139(6), Sch. 19 Pt. III Note 4 (by Note 4 it is provided that the repeal has effect in relation to oil used on or after 1.1.1982)
1U.K.Regulating the approval of persons for purposes of section 9(1) or (4) or 14(1) of this Act, whether individually or by reference to a class, and whether in relation to particular descriptions of oil or generally; enabling approval to be granted subject to conditions and providing for the conditions to be varied, or the approval revoked, for reasonable cause.
2U.K.Enabling permission under section 9(1) of this Act to be granted subject to conditions as to the giving of security and otherwise.
[F23U.K.Requiring claims or applications for repayment under section 9(4), 17, F3... F4... 19 or 19A of this Act to be made at such times and in respect of such periods as are prescribed; providing that no such claim or application shall lie where the amount to be paid is less than the prescribed minimum; and preventing, where a claim or application can be made under section 9(4) or 19, the payment of drawback.]
Textual Amendments
F2Sch. 4 Pt. II para. 3 substituted by Finance Act 1981 (c.35, SIF 40:1), s. 6(1)(3)
F3Word in Sch. 4 para. 3 omitted (retrospective to 1.4.2008) by virtue of Finance Act 2008 (c. 9), Sch. 5 paras. 23(a), 26(b)
F4Words in Sch. 4 para. 3 repealed (1.11.1996) by 1996 c. 8, ss. 8(2), 205, Sch. 41 Pt. I; S.I. 1996/2536, art. 2
4U.K.Imposing restrictions on the mixing with other oil of any rebated oil or oil delivered without payment of duty.
5U.K.Requiring as a condition of allowing rebate on, or delivery without payment of duty of, any oil (subject to any exceptions provided by or under the regulations) that there shall have been added to that oil, at such times, in such manner and in such proportions as may be prescribed, one or more prescribed markers, with or without a prescribed colouring substance (not being a prescribed marker), and that a declaration to that effect is furnished.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Sch. 4 para 5 modified by S.I. 2004/2065, reg. 3(1A)(b) (as 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), 8(2)(a))
C2Sch. 4 para 5 modified by S.I. 2004/2065, reg. 3(2A)(c) (as 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), 8(2)(d))
6U.K.Prescribing the substances which are to be used as markers.
7U.K.Providing that the presence of a marker shall be disregarded if the proportion in which it is present is less than that prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph.
8U.K.Prohibiting the addition to any oil of any prescribed marker or prescribed colouring substance except in such circumstances as may be prescribed.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C3Sch. 4 paras. 8-10 modified by S.I. 2004/2065, reg. 3(1A)(b) (as 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), 8(2)(a))
C4Sch. 4 paras. 8-10 modified by S.I. 2004/2065, reg. 3(2A)(c) (as 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), 8(2)(d))
9U.K.Prohibiting the removal from any oil of any prescribed marker or prescribed colouring substance.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C5Sch. 4 paras. 8-10 modified by S.I. 2004/2065, reg. 3(1A)(b) (as 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), 8(2)(a))
C6Sch. 4 paras. 8-10 modified by S.I. 2004/2065, reg. 3(2A)(c) (as 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), 8(2)(d))
10U.K.Prohibiting the addition to oil of any substance, not being a prescribed marker, which is calculated to impede the identification of a prescribed marker.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C7Sch. 4 paras. 8-10 modified by S.I. 2004/2065, reg. 3(1A)(b) (as 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), 8(2)(a))
C8Sch. 4 paras. 8-10 modified by S.I. 2004/2065, reg. 3(2A)(c) (as 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), 8(2)(d))
11U.K.Regulating the storage or movement of prescribed markers.
12U.K.Requiring any person who adds a prescribed marker to any oil to keep in such manner and to preserve for such period as may be prescribed such accounts and records in connection with his use of that marker as may be prescribed, and requiring the production of the accounts and records.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C9Sch. 4 paras. 12-16 modified by S.I. 2004/2065, reg. 3(1A)(b) (as 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), 8(2)(a))
C10Sch. 4 paras. 12-17 modified by S.I. 2004/2065, reg. 3(2A)(c) (as 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), 8(2)(d))
13U.K.Requiring, in such circumstances or subject to such exceptions as may be prescribed, that any drum, storage tank, delivery pump or other container or outlet which contains any oil in which a prescribed marker is present shall be marked in the prescribed manner to indicate that the oil is not to be used as road fuel or for any other prohibited purpose.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C11Sch. 4 paras. 12-16 modified by S.I. 2004/2065, reg. 3(1A)(b) (as 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), 8(2)(a))
C12Sch. 4 paras. 12-17 modified by S.I. 2004/2065, reg. 3(2A)(c) (as 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), 8(2)(d))
14U.K.Requiring any person who supplies oil in which a prescribed marker is present to deliver to the recipient a document containing a statement in the prescribed form to the effect that the oil is not to be used as road fuel or for any other prohibited purpose.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C13Sch. 4 paras. 12-16 modified by S.I. 2004/2065, reg. 3(1A)(b) (as 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), 8(2)(a))
C14Sch. 4 paras. 12-17 modified by S.I. 2004/2065, reg. 3(2A)(c) (as 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), 8(2)(d))
15U.K.Prohibiting the sale of any oil the colour of which would prevent any prescribed colouring substance from being readily visible if present in the oil.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C15Sch. 4 paras. 12-16 modified by S.I. 2004/2065, reg. 3(1A)(b) (as 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), 8(2)(a))
C16Sch. 4 paras. 12-17 modified by S.I. 2004/2065, reg. 3(2A)(c) (as 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), 8(2)(d))
16U.K.Prohibiting the importation of oil in which any prescribed marker, or any other substance which is calculated to impede the identification of a prescribed marker, is present.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C17Sch. 4 paras. 12-16 modified by S.I. 2004/2065, reg. 3(1A)(b) (as 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), 8(2)(a))
C18Sch. 4 paras. 12-17 modified by S.I. 2004/2065, reg. 3(2A)(c) (as 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), 8(2)(d))
17U.K.Regulating the storage or movement of oil.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C19Sch. 4 para. 17 modified (1.9.2004) by The Biofuels and Other Fuel Substitutes (Payment of Excise Duties etc.) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/2065), regs. 1(1), 3(1)(f)
C20Sch. 4 paras. 12-17 modified by S.I. 2004/2065, reg. 3(2A)(c) (as 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), 8(2)(d))
18U.K.Restricting the supplying of oil in respect of which rebate has been allowed and not repaid or on which excise duty has not been paid.
[F518AU.K.Prohibiting the use of aviation gasoline otherwise than as a fuel for aircraft.]
Textual Amendments
F5Sch. 4 paras. 18A, 18B inserted by Finance Act 1982 (c. 39, SIF 40:1), s. 4(6)
F618BU.K.Prohibiting the taking of aviation gasoline into fuel tanks for engines other than aircraft engines.
Textual Amendments
F6Sch. 4 paras. 18A,18B inserted by Finance Act 1982 (c. 39, SIF 40:1), s. 4(6)
19U.K.Requiring a person owning or possessing a [F7vehicle, vessel, machine or appliance] which is constructed or adapted to use heavy oil as fuel to keep such accounts and records in such manner as may be prescribed, and to preserve such books and documents relating to the supply of heavy oil to or by him, or the use of heavy oil by him, for such period as may be prescribed.
Textual Amendments
F7Words in Sch. 4 para. 19 substituted (1.4.2022) by Finance Act 2021 (c. 26), s. 102(2), Sch. 21 paras. 23(2), (5)(a)
20U.K.Requiring the production of books or documents relating to the supply or use of oil or the use of any vehicle [F8, vessel, machine or appliance].
Textual Amendments
F8Words in Sch. 4 para. 20 inserted (cond.) (1.4.2022) by Finance Act 2021 (c. 26), s. 102(2), Sch. 21 paras. 23(3), (5)(b)
21[F9(1)]Authorising the entry and inspection of premises [F10(including places of any description, and in particular tents or movable structures, other] than private dwelling-houses) and the examination of vehicles [F11, vessels, machines or appliances ], and authorising, or requiring the giving of facilities for, the inspection of oil found on any premises entered or on or in any vehicle [F12, vessel, machine or appliance ] and the taking of samples of any oil inspected.U.K.
[F13(2)In this paragraph “premises” includes any floating structure.
(3)Nothing in sub-paragraph (1) enables regulations to be made authorising the examination of the interior of part of a vessel if that part is used as a dwelling.]
Textual Amendments
F9Sch. 4 para. 21 renumbered as Sch. 4 para. 21(1) (29.6.2021 for N.I. for specified purposes, 1.10.2021 for N.I. in so far as not already in force) by Finance Act 2020 (c. 14), Sch. 11 paras. 13(4)(a), 18; S.I. 2021/740, regs. 2, 3 (with reg. 1(2))
F10Words in Sch. 4 para. 21 substituted (1.4.2022) by Finance Act 2021 (c. 26), s. 102(2), Sch. 21 para. 23(4)(a)
F11Words in Sch. 4 para. 21 substituted (cond.) (1.4.2022) by Finance Act 2021 (c. 26), s. 102(2), Sch. 21 paras. 23(4)(b), (5)(c)
F12Words in Sch. 4 para. 21 substituted (cond.) (1.4.2022) by Finance Act 2021 (c. 26), s. 102(2), Sch. 21 paras. 23(4)(c), (5)(d)
F13Sch. 4 para. 21(2)(3) inserted (29.6.2021 for N.I. for specified purposes, 1.10.2021 for N.I. in so far as not already in force) by Finance Act 2020 (c. 14), Sch. 11 paras. 13(4)(c), 18; S.I. 2021/740, regs. 2, 3 (with reg. 1(2))
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C21Sch. 4 para. 21 modified (1.9.2004) by The Biofuels and Other Fuel Substitutes (Payment of Excise Duties etc.) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/2065), regs. 1(1), 3(1)(f)
C22Sch. 4 para. 21 modified by S.I. 2004/2065, reg. 3(2A)(c) (as 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), 8(2)(d)
22U.K.In this Schedule—
“oil” means hydrocarbon oil;
“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made under section 24 of this Act;
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Textual Amendments
F14Words in Sch. 4 para. 22 omitted (retrospective to 1.4.2008) by virtue of Finance Act 2008 (c. 9), Sch. 5 paras. 23(b), 26(b)
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