{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/passenger-car-fuel-consumption-order-1983/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/passenger-car-fuel-consumption-order-1983/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1983/1486",
  "legislation_title": "The Passenger Car Fuel Consumption Order 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/passenger-car-fuel-consumption-order-1983",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Calculation of fuel consumption figures",
  "text": "Where, pursuant to the provisions of Article 6(2)(c), particulars of the tests are submitted to the Secretary of State in the form set out in Part III of Schedule 2—\n(a) the fuel consumption in litres per hundred kilometres required to be stated in paragraph 12 of the particulars shall be the fuel consumption as determined by the tests expressed—\n(i) if the fuel consumption is 5.0 litres per hundred kilometres or less, to the nearest 2 decimal places (amounts of 0.005 being treated as zero); and\n(ii) if the fuel consumption is more than 5.0 litres per hundred kilometres, to the nearest decimal place (amounts of 0.05 being treated as zero); and\n(b) the fuel consumption in miles per gallon required to be stated in paragraph 12 of the particulars shall be calculated by dividing 282.481 by the fuel consumption in litres per hundred kilometres as determined by the tests (the results being expressed to one decimal place and amounts of 0.05 being treated as 0.1).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (E.W.S.) (31.12.2013) by The Control of Fuel and Electricity, Local Government and Transport (Revocations and Savings) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/2986), art. 1, Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 8 substituted (1.6.1996) by The Passenger Car Fuel Consumption (Amendment) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1132), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/1486/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:56:50.432700+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."
}