{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hydrocarbon-oil-duties-act-1979/section-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hydrocarbon-oil-duties-act-1979/section-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/5",
  "legislation_title": "Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hydrocarbon-oil-duties-act-1979",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Rebate not allowed on fuel other than for excepted machines.",
  "text": "(1) If, on the delivery of heavy oil for home use, it is intended to use the oil as fuel other than for an excepted machine, a declaration shall be made to that effect in the entry for home use and thereupon no rebate under section 11 above shall be allowed in respect of that oil.\n(2) No heavy oil on whose delivery for home use rebate has been allowed (whether under section 11 above or section 13ZA or 13AA(1) below) shall—\n(a) be used as fuel other than for an excepted machine, or\n(b) be taken into any vehicle, vessel, machine or appliance, other than an excepted machine, as fuel,\nunless an amount equal to the amount for the time being allowable in respect of rebate on like oil has been paid to the Commissioners in accordance with regulations made under section 24(1) below for the purposes of this section.\n(2A) But subsection (2) does not apply in relation to fuel used or taken in as mentioned in section 14E (private pleasure craft).\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 12(1) substituted (1.4.2022) by Finance Act 2021 (c. 26), s. 102(2), Sch. 21 paras. 5(1)(b), (2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 12(1) inserted (24.7.2002) by 2002 c. 23, s. 6, Sch. 3 para. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 12(2) inserted (1.10.1996) by 1996 c. 8, s. 5(3); S.I. 1996/2314, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 12(2) substituted (24.7.2002) by 2002 c. 23, s. 6, Sch. 3 para. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 12(2) inserted (1.11.2008) by Finance Act 2008 (c. 9), Sch. 6 paras. 26, 37"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 12(2)(a)(b) substituted (1.4.2022) by Finance Act 2022 (c. 3), s. 76(2), Sch. 11 para. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 12(2A) substituted (1.4.2022) by Finance Act 2022 (c. 3), s. 76(2), Sch. 11 para. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 12(3) omitted (retrospective to 1.4.2008) by virtue of Finance Act 2008 (c. 9), Sch. 5 paras. 8, 26(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 12 cross-heading substituted (1.4.2022) by Finance Act 2021 (c. 26), s. 102(2), Sch. 21 paras. 5(1)(a), (2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 12(2) restricted by S.I. 1989/2439, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/5/section/12",
    "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."
}