{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-fuel-composition-and-content-regulations-1999/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-fuel-composition-and-content-regulations-1999/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3107",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Fuel (Composition and Content) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-fuel-composition-and-content-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Restrictions on the distribution of motor fuel",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, no person shall, during a period beginning on 1st September in any year and ending on 15th April in the following year, distribute petrol which—\n(a) does not comply with the winter petrol requirement; and\n(b) is for use within the United Kingdom.\n(2) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, no person shall during a period beginning on 16th April and ending on 31st August in any year, distribute petrol which—\n(a) does not comply with the summer petrol requirement; and\n(b) is for use within the United Kingdom.\n(3) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, no person shall distribute diesel fuel which—\n(a) does not comply with the diesel fuel requirement; and\n(b) is for use within the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/3035",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Fuel (Composition and Content) and Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Air Pollution from Ships) (Amendment) Regulations 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/3078",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Fuel (Composition and Content) (Amendment) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2021/894",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Fuel (Composition and Content) and the Biofuel (Labelling) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2022/1082",
      "affecting_title": "The Motor Fuel (Composition and Content) (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2022"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3107/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:13.405231+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."
}