The Motor Fuel (Composition and Content) Regulations 1999

Restrictions on the sale of motor fuel

5.—(1) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, no person shall, during a period beginning on 1st September in any year and ending on 31st May in the following year, sell petrol which—

(a)does not comply with the winter petrol requirement; and

(b)is for use within the United Kingdom.

(2) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, no person shall, during a period beginning on 1st June and ending on 31st August in any year, sell petrol which—

(a)does not comply with the summer petrol requirement; and

(b)is for use within the United Kingdom.

(3) Paragraph (2) shall not apply to petrol—

(a)which complies with the winter petrol requirement, and

(b)which is stored in a filling station tank to which fewer than three deliveries of petrol have been made since 15th April immediately preceding the beginning of the period mentioned in paragraph (2).

(4) This paragraph applies to a filling station which is supplied from a facility (in this regulation referred to as “the supplying facility”)—

(a)which is only supplied by sea-going vessels, and

(b)whose total annual throughput of petrol is not more than 8,000 metric tonnes.

(5) Where paragraph (4) applies to a filling station, paragraph (2) shall not apply to petrol stored at that filling station where that petrol—

(a)complies with the winter petrol requirement, and

(b)is stored in a filling station tank to which fewer than two deliveries of petrol have been made since the second delivery of petrol to the supplying facility since 15th April immediately preceding the beginning of the period mentioned in paragraph (2).

(6) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, no person shall sell diesel fuel which—

(a)does not comply with the diesel fuel requirement; and

(b)is for use within the United Kingdom.