{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oil-stocking-order-2012/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oil-stocking-order-2012/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2862",
  "legislation_title": "The Oil Stocking Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oil-stocking-order-2012",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Restrictions on enforcement proceedings",
  "text": "(1) A person must not, in respect of specific stocks maintained or transported within the United Kingdom on behalf of a member State, commence or continue execution or other legal process or seek to levy distress.\n(2) In the application of paragraph (1) to—\n(a) Scotland, reference to execution being commenced or continued includes reference to diligence being carried out or continued and reference to seeking to levy distress is omitted;\n(b) Northern Ireland, reference to other legal process includes enforcement of a judgment under the Judgments Enforcement (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 7(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Pipe-lines, Petroleum, Electricity Works and Oil Stocking (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1325), regs. 1(1), 7(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/226 (N.I.6); there have been 29 amending instruments, the most recent amending instrument being S.I. 2010/976."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2862/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:13:25.262654+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}