The Alternative Fuel Labelling and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019

PART 1 Introduction

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Alternative Fuel Labelling and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019.

(2) Regulation 22 comes into force on 22nd March 2019.

(3) Regulations 5, 6 and 14(2) and (3) come into force on 1st April 2020.

(4) The remainder of these Regulations come into force on 1st September 2019.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“alternative fuel” means fuel or power sources which serve, at least partly, as a substitute for fossil oil sources in the energy supply to transport and which have the potential to contribute to its decarbonisation and enhance the environmental performance of the transport sector and includes—

(a)

hydrogen,

(b)

liquid or gaseous biofuels derived from biomass,

(c)

synthetic and paraffinic fuels,

(d)

natural gas, including biomethane in gaseous form (compressed natural gas) and liquefied form, and

(e)

liquefied petroleum gas;

“enforcement authority” means the Secretary of State or, if a person has been authorised by the Secretary of State in accordance with regulation 7(2), that person;

“identifier” has the meaning given in regulation 3;

“infrastructure operator” in relation to a refuelling point means the person responsible for operating a refuelling point, whether as owner or on behalf of a third party;

“motor vehicle” has the meaning given in section 185(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988(1);

“motor vehicle dealer” means the retailer or other person who offers for sale or lease new motor vehicles to consumers;

“refuelling point” means a refuelling facility for motor vehicles, which is accessible to the public, for the provision of any alternative fuel through a fixed or mobile installation;

“relevant vehicle” means a motor vehicle—

(a)

the manufacture of which is completed on or after 1st April 2020,

(b)

that can be fuelled with an alternative fuel at a refuelling point, and

(c)

that is placed on the market in the United Kingdom.

(2) A refuelling point is accessible to the public if it is intended for use by members of the public, and is not intended for exclusive use—

(a) in respect of a motor vehicle produced by a specific manufacturer,

(b) by persons engaged in specific occupations,

(c) by persons whilst at their place of employment or by their visitors, or

(d) by occupiers of, or visitors to, residential premises.

(1)

1988 c. 52; that is, ““motor vehicle” means, subject to section 20 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 (which makes special provision about invalid carriages, within the meaning of that Act), a mechanically propelled vehicle intended or adapted for use on roads”.