PETROLEUM (CONSOLIDATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1929 - SECT 17 Powers of officers of local authorities as to testing petroleum-

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PETROLEUM (CONSOLIDATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1929 - SECT 17

Powers of officers of local authorities as to testing petroleum-

17.(1) Any officer authorised by a local authority empowered under this Act to
grant petroleum-spirit licences

(a)may purchase samples of any petroleum from any dealer therein or from any
person who keeps petroleum for the purposes of any trade or industry, or may
on producing a copy of his appointment purporting to be signed by the clerk of
the local authority require the dealer or other person to show him every place
and any vessels in which petroleum in his possession is kept and to give him
samples of such petroleum on payment of the value thereof; and

(b)may test or cause to be tested at any convenient place and at such
reasonable time as he may appoint any samples so obtained by him.

(2) Any such officer shall, before testing or causing to be tested any samples
under the last foregoing sub-section, give to the dealer or other person from
whom they were obtained notice in writing of the place and time at which they
are to be tested, and the dealer or other person or any person appointed by
him may be present at the testing.

(3) If it appears to the person testing any samples of petroleum obtained
under this section that the petroleum is petroleum-spirit, he may give a
certificate in writing to that effect, and a certificate so given shall be
received in evidence in any proceedings under this Act against the person from
whom the samples were obtained, so, however, that if, after hearing any
evidence given by or on behalf of that person, the court before which the
proceedings are taken is not satisfied as to the correctness of the
certificate, the court may appoint some person skilled in testing petroleum to
test the samples to which the certificate relates and to report whether the
certificate is correct or not.

(4) Any expenses incurred in testing any samples of petroleum under this
section shall, if the person from whom the samples were obtained is convicted
of keeping, sending, conveying, selling, or exposing or offering for sale
petroleum-spirit in contravention of this Act, be paid by that person, and
shall be recoverable as part of the costs of the proceedings against him, but
in every other case shall be paid by the local authority.

(5) If any dealer in petroleum or person who keeps petroleum for the purposes
of any trade or industry, by himself or by anyone in his employ or acting by
his direction or with his consent, refuses to show to an officer authorised by
the local authority any place or vessel in which petroleum in his possession
is kept, or to give to such an officer such assistance as he may require for
examining any such place or vessel, or to give him samples of such petroleum
on payment of the value thereof, or wilfully obstructs the local authority or
any officer thereof acting in the execution of this Act, that dealer or other
person shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty
pounds.

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PETROLEUM (CONSOLIDATION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1929 - SECT 17