British Hydrocarbon Oils Production Act 1934
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British Hydrocarbon Oils Production Act, 1934
(24 & 25 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 4.
An Act to provide for a preference in respect of light hydrocarbon oils manufactured in the United Kingdom from coal, shale, or peat, indigenous to the United Kingdom or from products produced from those substances; and to provide for the collection of information as to the production of such oils.
[28th March 1934]
B E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Preference for home produced light oils.
(1) While this Act is in operation the preference in respect of light hydrocarbon oils manufactured in the United Kingdom from coal, shale, or peat, indigenous to the United Kingdom or from products produced from those substances (hereinafter referred to as ‘home produced light oils’) shall not be less than fourpence per gallon.
(2) In this Act—
the expression ‘preference’ means—
(a ) so long as no excise duty is payable in respect of home produced light oils, the amount of the customs duty payable in the United Kingdom on light hydrocarbon oils;
(b ) if while this Act is in operation any such excise duty is payable, the difference between the duty so payable and the customs duty payable as aforesaid; and
the expression ‘light hydrocarbon oils’ means hydrocarbon oils as defined by subsection (9) of section two of the Finance Act, 1928 , being light oils within the meaning of subsection (3) of that section.
2 Information to be furnished to the Board of Trade.
(1) It shall be the duty of all persons engaged in the manufacture of home produced light oils to furnish to the Board of Trade, in such manner and form as the Board may direct, such particulars, statistics, and other information, with respect to the quantities of such oils produced and the types and quantities of the materials from which they are produced, as the Board may at any time require; and if any person fails to comply with any requirement of the Board made under this section, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds and to a further fine not exceeding twenty pounds for every day on which the failure occurs or continues.
(2) No information furnished to the Board under this section may be...
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