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1. The old regulations concerned with the Liquor Licensing Board and the election of licensing justices no longer appear, but are maintained in operatino until they are replaced by new legislation.

4. Opportunity has been taken to redraft many of the old regulations to as to conform with present practice,

(Secretariat FIN7/3231/60)

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DUTLABLE COMMODITIES ORDINANCE. 1963. (No. 26 of 1963).

DUTIABLE COMMODITIES (MARKING AND COLOURING OF

HYDROCARBON OILS) REGULATIONS, 1963.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 6 of the Dutiable Commodities Ordinance, 1963, the Govenor in Council has made the following regulations-

1. These regulations may be cited as the Dutiable Commodities Ciation, (Marking and Colouring of Hydrocarbon Oils) Regulations, 1963.

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2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires- Interpreta- "colouring substance" means the colouring substance specified in regula-

tion 4:

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"light diesel oil", commonly known as ‘gas oil", means a heavy oil of which not more than fifty per cent by volume distils at a tem- perature not exceeding 240° Centigrade and of which more than fifty per cent by volume distils at a temperature not exceeding 340* Centigrade;

"markers" means the markers specified in regulation 4;

"treated oil" means oil to which markers and colouring substance have

been added as required by regulation 3.

3. No light diesel oil shall be sold for marine or industrial use Marking and unless there has been added to the oil in the manner prescribed by the colouring

of light Director and in the proportions specified in regulation 5. the markers diesel oil. and colouring substance specified in regulation 4.

4. (1) The markers shall be-

(a) 1:4 di-hydroxyanthraquinone:

(6) furfuraldehyde.

(2) The colouring substance shall be C.I. Solvent Red 24 as de- scribed in the Colour Index, Second Edition (1956), compiled by the British Society of Dyers and Colourists and the American Association

Textile Chemists and Colourises.

Mackers and colouring Substance.

5. (1) The markers shall be added in the proportion of not less Proportions than one and three quarter pounds of 1:4 di-hydroxyanthraquinone and of markers not less than mine pounds of furfuraldehyde to every one hundred substance.

and colouring thousand imperial gallons of light diesel oil,

(2) The colouring substance shall be added in the proportion of not less than four pounds of CI. Solvent Red 24 to every one hundred housand imperial gallons of light diesel oil,