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GAS PERMIT REGULATIONS.

14th February 1918
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Page 13, 14th February 1918 — GAS PERMIT REGULATIONS.
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Board of Trade Order Governing Issue of Fuel Licences and Permit.

. The new order of the Board of Trade dealing with the granting of petrol licences and gas permits tome into force on Sunday last. The Board of Trade last week issued the following announcement covering details concerning the issue of the gas permits. The announcement states that under the provisions of Clause (11) of the Motor Spirit (Consolidation) and Gas Restriction Order, 1918, motor vehicles fitted with gas apparatus may not be driven after 9th February next without a gas permit issued by the Petrol Controller. Forms of application for gas permits will be furnished on request by the Petrol Control Department, 19, Berkeley Street, London, W. -1.

If the motor vehicle was fitted with gas apparatus before 3rd January, 1918, or has since that date been fitted with apparatus ordered before gist December, 1917, a gas permit will be issued on application, subject to the conditions mentioned below. If, however, a motor vehicle is not at present so fitted, OT if the order for the gas apparatus has been given since the intention to restrict the use of gas was announced, the application will be considered on its merits, and a gas permit will be issued only in those cases where a motor spirit licence would otherwise be granted.

A motor spirit licence.a.nd a gas permit will not be granted in respect of the same vehicle, except in the following eases:—

Owners of hire cars and taxicabs will be allowed with each gas permit granted an emergency ration of petrol, not exceeding four gallons per month, in those cases where the motor spirit licence is surrendered.

Owners of omnibuses will be required to give a provisional estimate of the monthly mileage run on gasand on petrol respectively, and a gas permit will be granted subject to the condition that the quantity of petrol licensed shall be. reduced in accordance with the mileage run on gas.

Owners of trade vehicles who make application for a gas permit will be required provisionally to surrender one-third of their present allowance of petrol granted in respect of the vehicles for which application is made.

Owners of both omnibuses and trade vehicles will be required to furnish a monthly statement of the mileage run on gas and petrol respectively, and the reduction in the quantity of petrol licensed will be adjusted accordingly. It is not proposed to make any reduction of the existing allowance e,f petrol in respect of mileage ran on gas before 3rd January, 1918. In cases where a gas permit is granted in respect of any vehicle, and the owner possesses a. stock of 'petrol obtained in accordance with the provisions of a motor spirit licence, Such stock of petrol may be used, in addition to gas, far the purpose of driving the vehicle. The same restrictions aseto purposes of use apply equally to petrol-driven and gas-driven vehicles, but, while a motor spirit licence limits the quantity of motor spirit that may be obtained, a gas permit does not so limit the quantity of gas. The issue of a permit will not, however, give the holder a right to demand a supply of gas front any source.


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