{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hydrocarbon-oil-duties-act-1979/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hydrocarbon-oil-duties-act-1979/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/5",
  "legislation_title": "Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hydrocarbon-oil-duties-act-1979",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Prohibition on use etc. of road fuel gas on which duty has not been paid.",
  "text": "(1) Where any person—\n(a) uses as fuel in; or\n(b) takes as fuel into,\na road vehicle any road fuel gas on which he knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the excise duty chargeable under section 8 above has not been paid his use of the road fuel gas or, as the case may be, his taking it as fuel into that vehicle shall attract a penalty under section 9 of the Finance Act 1994 (civil penalties), and any goods in respect of which a person contravenes this subsection shall be liable to forfeiture..\n(1A) Section 10 of the Finance Act 1994 (exception for cases of reasonable excuse) shall not apply in relation to conduct attracting a penalty by virtue of subsection (1) above.\n(1B) Where any person—\n(a) uses as fuel in, or\n(b) takes as fuel into,\na road vehicle any road fuel gas on which the excise duty chargeable under section 8 above has not been paid, the Commissioners may assess the amount of that duty as being excise duty due from that person and notify him or his representative accordingly.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 23(1) substituted (1.1.1995) by 1994 c. 9, s. 9, Sch. 4 Pt. III para. 57(1)(a) (with s. 19(3)); S.I. 1994/2679, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 23(1) substituted (1.1.1995) by 1994 c. 9, s. 9, Sch. 4 Pt. III para. 57(1)(b) (with s. 19(3)); S.I. 1994/2679, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 23(1A) inserted (1.1.1995) by 1994 c. 9, s. 9, Sch. 4 Pt. III para. 57(2) (with s. 19(3)); S.I. 1994/2679, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 23(1B) inserted (1.6.1997) by 1997 c. 16, s. 50(2), Sch. 6 para. 6(4); S.I. 1997/1305, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 23(2) omitted (retrospective to 1.4.2008) by virtue of Finance Act 2008 (c. 9), Sch. 5 paras. 19, 26(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 23 restricted (1.6.1997) by 1994 c. 9, s. 12A(3)(c) (as inserted (1.6.1997) by 1997 c. 16, s. 50(2), Sch. 6 para. 1(1); S.I. 1997/1305, art. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/5/section/23",
    "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."
}