1962
No. 36 of 1931.
DUTIABLE COMMODITIES.
Definition of hydrocarbon oils.
18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 17, s. 2(9).
25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 24, s. 2(7)(e).
Schedule.
(3) No person shall without the permission of the Superintendent in any premises licensed for the manufacture of tobacco have in his possession anything capable of being used for adulterating tobacco.
PART IV.—HYDROCARBON OILS.
78. In the application of this Ordinance to hydrocarbon oils—
(a) "Hydrocarbon oils" means petroleum oils, coal tar, and oils produced from coal, shale, peat or any other bituminous substance, and all liquid hydrocarbons;
(b) "Heavy oils" means any hydrocarbon oils except light oils; and heavy oils shall be deemed to be used as fuel for a heavy oil road vehicle if they have a flash-point of sixty-six degrees centigrade or more and are used as fuel for any engine with which the vehicle is equipped, whether for the propulsion of the vehicle or not;
(c) "Light oils" means hydrocarbon oils of which not less than fifty per cent, by volume distils at a 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 the Commissioners of Customs and Excise of the United Kingdom, and includes the oils specified in the Schedule to this Ordinance;
(d) "Heavy oil road vehicle" means a mechanically propelled road vehicle which is constructed or adapted to use heavy oils as fuel.
SCHEDULE.
[s. 78 (c).]
LIGHT OILS.
Light petroleum ether.
Motor spirit.
White spirit and special solvents.
Benzol.