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The Hydrocarbon Oil (Marking) Regulations 2002
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PART VIPROHIBITIONS
Prohibitions relating to prescribed markers
14.—(1) No oil may be marked except in the circumstances prescribed by these Regulations.
(2) No marker may be removed from any oil.
(3) No substance calculated to impede the identification of any marker may be added to any oil.
Prohibition relating to other markers
15.—(1) No person may add any chemical identifier or dye other than a marker to any gas oil or kerosene required by these Regulations to be marked (other than gas oil or kerosene 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)(1) and any oil to which such a chemical identifier or dye has been added shall be liable to forfeiture.
Prohibition on importation of certain oil
16. No oil 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.
Prohibition on the sale of dark oil
17. No dark oil may be sold as fuel for a heavy oil vehicle.
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