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Regulation 2 General interpretation

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In these Regulations—

  • “BS EN ISO 3830:1996” means the British Standard which is entitled “Petroleum products—Determination of lead content of gasoline—Iodine monochloride method” and was published under number BS EN ISO 3830:1996;

  • “diesel fuel” has the same meaning as “diesel fuels” as defined in Article 2(2) of the Directive;

  • “the Directive” means Directive 98/70/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 1998 relating to the quality of petrol and diesel fuels and amending Council Directive 93/12/EECf1;

  • “distribute” in relation to motor fuel means either—

    1. (a)

      import into the United Kingdom, or

    2. (b)

      distribute from a refinery;

  • “filling station” means any premises used or intended to be used for fuelling motor vehicles with motor fuel in the course of the business of selling motor fuel by retail;

  • “filling station tank” means a tank at a filling station which stores motor fuel prior to its sale by retail;

  • “kPa” means kilopascal(s);

  • “leaded petrol” means petrol which (with the exception of the environmental specifications for lead content, research octane number and motor octane number in Annex I of the Directive) complies with the relevant requirements for petrol in regulations 4 and 5 and which has—

    1. (a)

      a lead content of not less than 0.05g/l and not more than 0.15g/l measured in accordance with BS EN ISO 3830:1996,

    2. (b)

      a research octane number of not less than 97 measured in accordance with the Test Method specified for research octane number in Annex I of the Directive, and

    3. (c)

      a motor octane number of not less than 86 measured in accordance with the Test Method specified for motor octane number in Annex I of the Directive;

  • “motor fuel” means petrol or diesel fuel;

  • “petrol” has the same meaning as in Article 2(1) of the Directive;

  • “refinery” has the same meaning as in section 27(1) of the Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979f2; and

  • “sell” means to sell by retail at a filling station and unless the context otherwise provides “sale”, “sells” and “sold” shall be construed accordingly.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

OJ No. L 350, 28.12.98, p. 58.

f2

1979 c. 5; the definition of “refinery” was substituted by the Finance Act 1981 (c. 35), section 5(3).