Statutory Instruments
2001 No. 3896
PUBLIC HEALTH
The Motor Fuel (Composition and Content) (Amendment) Regulations 2001
Made
5th December 2001
Laid before Parliament
7th December 2001
Coming into force
31st December 2001
The Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions—
in exercise of the powers conferred by section 30(1) and (3) of the Clean Air Act 1993( 1 ) (“the 1993 Act”); and
and in exercise of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consultation in accordance with the provisions of section 30(2) of the 1993 Act with persons appearing to him to represent manufacturers and users of motor vehicles, persons appearing to him to represent the producers and users of fuel for motor vehicles and persons appearing to him to be conversant with the problems of air pollution, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Fuel (Composition and Content)(Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 31st December 2001.
Amendment of the Motor Fuel (Composition and Content) Regulations 1999
2. —(1)The Motor Fuel (Composition and Content) Regulations 1999( 4 ) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs—
(a) in regulation 2 (general interpretation) at the end of the definition of “the Directive” there shall be added the words “as amended by Commission Directive 2000/71/EC ( 5 )”;
(b) in regulation 3 (interpretation of requirement relating to motor fuel) in paragraph (3)(a)(i) and (ii) the word “Reid” shall be omitted;
(c) in regulation 11 (variation of a leaded petrol permit)—
(i) in paragraph (1) for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following—
“ (b) the terms of any condition of the permit which requires the permit holder to ensure that the amount of leaded petrol distributed to the nominated filling stations each month remains within a specified percentage of the monthly percentage. ” ; and
(ii) after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following—
“ (1A) For the purposes of paragraph (1)—
(a) “monthly percentage” means a figure provided by the permit holder in relation to his application for the permit as being the amount of leaded petrol expected to be distributed to the proposed nominated filling stations for each month during a calendar year expressed as a percentage of the figure provided by him in relation to that application as being the amount of leaded petrol which he intended to distribute and sell over the period to be covered by any issued permit; and
(b) “specified percentage” means a percentage specified by the Secretary of State in a leaded petrol permit. ” ;
(d) in Schedule 1 (information and evidence required in relation to an application for a leaded petrol permit) in paragraph 8 sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) shall be omitted; and
(e) in Schedule 2 (mandatory terms and conditions for a leaded petrol permit)—
(i) in paragraph 1 sub-paragraph (1)(b) and (2) shall be omitted; and
(ii) in paragraph 2 in sub-paragraph (a) paragraphs (ii) and (iii) shall be omitted.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
David Jamieson
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
5th December 2001
OJ No. L287, 14.11.00, p. 46.