{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-stocks-order-1976/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-stocks-order-1976/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1976/2162",
  "legislation_title": "Petroleum Stocks Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petroleum-stocks-order-1976",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order prescribes, for the purposes of section 6 (bulk stocks of petroleum etc.) of the Energy Act 1976—\n(a) the circumstances in which stocks of crude liquid petroleum and petroleum products (in the United Kingdom and elsewhere) are to be treated as a person's United Kingdom stocks (Article 2),\n(b) the circumstances in which a person supplying petroleum products for use as finished products is to be treated as a substantial supplier to the United Kingdom market (Article 3), and\n(c) the extent to which stocks of crude liquid petroleum are to count towards compliance with a direction specifying stocks of petroleum products (Article 4).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1976/2162/note",
    "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."
}