14.—(1) No oil [F1or bioblend] may be marked except in the circumstances prescribed by these Regulations.
(2) No marker may be removed from any oil [F1or bioblend].
(3) No substance calculated to impede the identification of any marker may be added to any oil [F1or bioblend].
Textual Amendments
15.—(1) No person may add any chemical identifier or dye other than a marker to any gas oil[F2, kerosene or bioblend] required by these Regulations to be marked (other than gas oil[F2, kerosene or bioblend] to which regulation 6 applies).
(2) Where any person contravenes this regulation, his contravention shall attract a penalty under section 9 of the Finance Act 1994 (civil penalties) M1 and any oil [F3or, as the case may be, bioblend] to which such a chemical identifier or dye has been added shall be liable to forfeiture.
Textual Amendments
F2Words in reg. 15(1) 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(10)(a)
F3Words in reg. 15(2) 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(10)(b)
Marginal Citations
16. No oil [F4or bioblend] of a description required by these Regulations to be marked may be imported where there has been added any substance calculated to impede the identification of any marker.
Textual Amendments
17. No dark oil may be sold as fuel for a heavy oil vehicle.