{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oil-stocking-order-2012/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oil-stocking-order-2012/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2862",
  "legislation_title": "The Oil Stocking Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oil-stocking-order-2012",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Holding and location requirements",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the requirements referred to in article 3(1)(b) and (2)(a) are that a stock, biofuel or additive must be held—\n(a) in a refinery tank;\n(b) in a bulk terminal;\n(c) in pipeline tankage;\n(d) in a barge;\n(e) in an intercoastal tanker;\n(f) in an oil tanker in port;\n(g) in an inland ship bunker;\n(h) in a storage tank bottom; or\n(i) as working stock.\n(2) Where a stock, biofuel or additive would, apart from this paragraph, be held as described in paragraph (1) but it is held—\n(a) in a pipeline;\n(b) in a rail tank car;\n(c) in a seagoing ship's bunker;\n(d) in a service station or retail store;\n(e) in a tanker at sea;\n(f) as military stock; or\n(g) as a petroleum product for an international marine bunker,\nit is not to be treated as held as described in paragraph (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2862/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:13:25.262654+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."
}