{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hydrocarbon-oil-marking-regulations-2002/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hydrocarbon-oil-marking-regulations-2002/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1773",
  "legislation_title": "The Hydrocarbon Oil (Marking) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hydrocarbon-oil-marking-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Prohibition relating to other markers",
  "text": "(1) No person may add any chemical identifier or dye other than a marker or n-butyl phenyl ether to any gas oil, kerosene , biodiesel or bioblend required by these Regulations to be marked (other than gas oil, kerosene, biodiesel or bioblend to which regulation 6 applies).\n(2) Where any person contravenes this regulation, his contravention shall attract a penalty under section 9 of the Finance Act 1994 (civil penalties) and any oil or, as the case may be, biodiesel or bioblend to which such a chemical identifier or dye has been added shall be liable to forfeiture.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 15(1) inserted (temp.) (1.12.2023) by virtue of The Hydrocarbon Oil (Marking and Designated Markers) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1187), regs. 2(1), 8(1) (with reg. 8(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 15(1) substituted (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), 6(10)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 15(1) inserted (1.4.2022) by The Hydrocarbon Oil Duties (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/234), regs. 1(1), 6(5)(a) (with regs. 9, 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 15(2) 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), 6(10)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 15(2) inserted (1.4.2022) by The Hydrocarbon Oil Duties (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/234), regs. 1(1), 6(5)(b) (with regs. 9, 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1994 c. 9."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1773/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:53:09.441827+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."
}