{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hydrocarbon-oil-duties-act-1979/schedule-4/paragraph-21",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/5",
  "legislation_title": "Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hydrocarbon-oil-duties-act-1979",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/21",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Authorising the entry and inspection of premises (including places of any description, and in particular tents or movable structures, other than private dwelling-houses) and the examination of vehicles , 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 , vessel, machine or appliance and the taking of samples of any oil inspected.\n(2) In this paragraph “premises” includes any floating structure.\n(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.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 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))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 21 substituted (1.4.2022) by Finance Act 2021 (c. 26), s. 102(2), Sch. 21 para. 23(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words 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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words 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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 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))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/5/schedule/4/paragraph/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:19:15.419499+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}