{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-fuel-composition-and-content-regulations-1994/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-fuel-composition-and-content-regulations-1994/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2295",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Fuel (Composition and Content) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-fuel-composition-and-content-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Equivalent standards",
  "text": "(1) Nothing in regulation 6 or 7 shall prevent a person distributing or selling any motor fuel in circumstances in which he could do so without contravening that regulation were there substituted for the references in regulation 5 to provisions in a relevant British Standard Specification references to equivalent provisions in a corresponding standard.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation, “corresponding standard”, in relation to a relevant British Standard Specification, means—\n(a) a standard or code of practice of a national standards body or equivalent body of any EEA State;\n(b) any international standard recognised for use as a standard by any EEA State; or\n(c) a technical specification or code of practice which, whether mandatory or not, is recognised for use as a standard by a public authority of any EEA State,\nwhere the standard, code of practice, international standard or technical specification provides, in relation to motor fuel, a level of control of air pollution equivalent to that provided by that British Standard Specification.\n(3) For the purposes of this regulation, a reference to a relevant British Standard Specification, is a reference to BS 4040:1988, BS 7800:1992, BS EN 228:1993 and BS EN 590:1993, as modified (in each case) by regulation 4.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2295/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:26:46.369945+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."
}