Act Number: 30

Act Name: The Petroleum Act, 1934

Year: 1934

Enactment Date: 1934-09-06

Long Title: An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the import, transport, storage, production, refining and blending of petroleum.

Ministry: Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

Department:

Section 7: No licence needed for transport or storage of limited quantities of petroleum Class B or petroleum Class C.
    1[7. No licence needed for transport or storage of limited quantities of petroleum Class B or petroleum Class C.--Notwithstanding anything contained in this Chapter, a person need not obtain a licence for the transport or storage of--
         (i) petroleum Class B if the total quantity in his possession at any one place does not exceed two thousand and five hundred litres and none of it is contained in a receptacle exceeding one thousand litres in capacity; or
         (ii) petroleum Class C if the total quantity in his possession at any one place does not exceed forty-five thousand litres and such petroleum is transported or stored in accordance with the rules made under section 4.]
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 24 of 1970, s. 8, for sections 7 and 8 (w.e.f. 1-8-1976).
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