{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-stocks-order-1976/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-stocks-order-1976/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1976/2162",
  "legislation_title": "Petroleum Stocks Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-stocks-order-1976",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Counting of stocks of a kind not subject to directions",
  "text": "Where any direction given under section 6 of the Energy Act 1976 to any person specifies stocks of petroleum products but not stocks of crude liquid petroleum, his United Kingdom stocks of crude liquid petroleum are to count towards compliance with the direction as if they were stocks of the same quantity by weight of the petroleum products to the extent that the amount so counted does not exceed 88 per cent of those stocks of crude liquid petroleum.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1982/968",
      "affecting_title": "Petroleum Stocks (Amendment) Order 1982"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1976/2162/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:27.235501+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."
}