{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/methylated-spirits-regulations-1987/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/methylated-spirits-regulations-1987/regulation-26.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2009",
  "legislation_title": "The Methylated Spirits Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/methylated-spirits-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Disposal of stocks in certain circumstances",
  "text": "(1) If a methylator or an authorised user discontinues his business while holding stocks of methylated spirits or if any authority or licence under which he holds those stocks is revoked he shall within a reasonable time and to the satisfaction of the proper officer dispose of any methylated spirits in his possession.\n(2) Where the discontinuance of a business is caused by the death of a methylator or authorised user his personal representatives shall dispose of any methylated spirits which were in his possession at the time of his death in the manner required by paragraph (1) above.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2009/regulation/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:17:19.083813+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."
}