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Made | 27th November 2003 | ||
Laid before Parliament | 10th December 2003 | ||
Coming into force | 31st December 2003 |
and in exercise of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consultation in accordance with the provisions of section 30(2) of the 1993 Act with persons appearing to him to represent manufacturers and users of motor vehicles, persons appearing to him to represent the producers and users of fuel for motor vehicles and persons appearing to him to be conversant with the problems of air pollution, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1.
These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Fuel (Composition and Content) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 31st December 2003.
Amendment of the Motor Fuel (Composition and Content) Regulations 1999
2.
The Motor Fuel (Composition and Content) Regulations 1999[4] shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.
Interpretation
3.
In regulation 2 (general interpretation) -
Interpretation of requirements relating to petrol and diesel fuel
4.
- (1) Regulation 3 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In the heading for "motor fuel" there shall be substituted "petrol and diesel fuel".
(3) In paragraph (2) -
Restrictions and exemptions relating to the distribution and sale of petrol and diesel fuel
5.
In the headings to regulations 4 and 5, for "motor fuel" there shall in each case be substituted "petrol or diesel fuel".
Restrictions on the sale of gas oil
6.
After regulation 5 there shall be inserted the following regulation -
Exemptions relating to the distribution or sale of motor fuel
7.
- (1) Regulation 6 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In paragraphs (1) and (3), for "Regulations 4 and 5" in both places occurring there shall be substituted "Regulations 4, 5 and 5A".
(3) In paragraph 5, for "regulation 4 or 5" there shall be substituted "regulations 4, 5 or 5A".
Powers of the Secretary of State to grant exemptions
8.
In regulation 7(1), for "Articles 3(5), 4(3) and 7" there shall be substituted "Article 7".
Applications for leaded petrol permits
9.
In Schedule 1, in paragraph 5, for "1st January 2000" there shall be substituted "the first day from which the permit is to apply".
Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State
Tony McNulty
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Transport
27th November 2003
[4] S.I. 1999/3107, amended by S.I. 2001/3896back
[5] O.J. L 287, 14.11.2000, p. 46.back
[6] O.J. L 76, 22.03.2003, p. 10.back
Prepared
17 December 2003