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Q I have often seen gas oil and red diesel mentioned

26th March 1971, Page 59
26th March 1971
Page 59
Page 59, 26th March 1971 — Q I have often seen gas oil and red diesel mentioned
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

and .1 believe they are in fact one and the same thing. What is this fuel and when can it be used?

AThe terms gas oil and red diesel are

used to denote rebated heavy oil. Heavy oils carry two rates of duty, a full rate which is payable if the oil is used as a fuel for road vehicles (the same rate of duty as charged on petrol) but if it is used for other purposes such as fuel for engines driving auxiliary equipment, fuel for contractors' plant which does not use public roads, bench testing of engines and space heating and so on. then a rebate is granted so that the fuel bears a lower rate of duty.

Rebated heavy oil must be marked, when delivered from bonded oil warehouses, with a red dye so that its use can be easily detected, and the supplier must deliver to the recipient a delivery note bearing a statement that the oil is "not to be used as road fuel". If both rebated and unrebated oils are stored in the same premises a notice bearing the same wording must be placed at the outlet of the rebated oil supply.

Road fuel testing units staffed by officers of Customs and Excise operate throughout the UK to test fuel in vehicles and a unit may, at any time, challenge a vehicle for the purpose of testing its fuel.

Under the Hydrocarbon Oil Duties (Rebates and Reliefs) Regulations 1964, Customs and Excise officers are empowered to examine any vehicle and any oil carried in it or on it and may also enter and inspect any premises, except a private dwelling house, and inspect, test or sample any oil on the premises whether the oil is in a vehicle or not.

Vehicle owners, drivers and owners or occupiers of premises must give the officers facilities for inspecting oils in vehicles or on premises.

The following vehicles may use rebated heavy oil as fuel, all other vehicles must use unrebated (full-duty paid) heavy oil at all times:

1. Vehicles not used on public roads and riot licensed for road use; 2, road rollers: 3, road construction machinery, i.e. vehicles used or kept on a road solely for the conveyance of built-in road construction machinery; 4, vehicles exempted from excise licence duty which use public roads for distances not exceeding six miles per week; 5, agricultural machines; 6, trench digging and excavating machines; 7, mobile cranes; 8, mowing machines; 9. works trucks.

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