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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 26, 1940.

Supplementary Schedule,--contd.

SHORT TITLE.

AMENDMENT OR REPEAL.

118. The Liquors Ordinance, 1931. (No. 36 of 1931. -contd.

capable of being used for adulterating

tobacco.

PART IV.-HYDROCARBON OILS.

78. In the application of this Ordinance to Definition of

hydrocarbon oils--

hydrocarbon oils.

means petro-

18 & 19

(@) “Hydrocarbon oils" leum oils. goal tar, and oils produced Geo. 5, c. 17, from coal,, shale. peat Or any other s. 2(9). bituminous substance, and hydrocarbons:

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liquid

20

(b) Heavy oils" means any hydrocar- bon oils except light oils; and heavy oils shall be deemed to be used as fuel for a heavy oil rond vehicle if they have flash-point of sixty-six degrees centigrade or more and are used as fuel for anv engine with which the vehicle is equipped, whether for the propulsion of the vehicle

or not;

(e) "Light oils means hydrocarbon oils of which not less than fifty per cent. by volume distils at temperature not exceeding one hundred and eighty-five degrees centigrade, or of which not less than ninety-five per cent. by volume distils at a temperature not exceeding two hundred and forty degrees centigrade, or which give off an inflammable vapour at a temperature of less than 22.8 degrees centigrade when tested in the manner prescribed by

Comunissioners of Customs and Excise of the United King- dor, and includes the oils specified in the Schedule to this Ordinance;

the

(d) "Heavy oil road vehicle" means 2 mechanically propelled road vehicle which is constructed or adapted to use heavy oils as fuel.

25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 24, s. 2(7)(2).

Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

LIGHT OILS.

Light petroleum ether.

Motor spirit.

[s. 78 (c).1

White spirit and special solvents.

Benzol.

Toluo!.

Xylol.

114. The

Betting Duty Ordinance, 1931.

(No. 40 of 1931

Solvent naphthas.

Mineral naphthas.

Admiralty vaporizing oil,

Light oils from distillation—

of coal:

of shale:

of low temperature tar;

by Bergius process.

Turpentine.

Rosin spirit.

Mixtures of any of the above.

Admixtures containing any one or more

of the above.

(1) Section 7-the figure (1) in the first line, and sub-section (2), are repealed.

(2) Sections 9 and 10 are repealed.