Legal Proceedings

attempted to dry them at a fire or some other source of ignition. The other accident involved a minor explosion at a defective, attendantoperated pump which injured a customer.

In 1976, there were again six such accidents reported and three of these involved spillage of petrol onto the trousers of forecourt attendants followed by ignition. One of these accidents was fatal. The other three cases were caused by a blowback during a petrol filling operation, the splashing of petrol from a parted hosepipe, and horseplay on a forecourt when a match was thrown during a filling operation. We would be grateful if petroleum officers could draw the attention of garage owners to the need for adequate precautions to be taken during the drying of petrol-soaked clothing.

FEES FOR PETROLEUM LICENCES

Following discussions with licensing authorities, draft regulations have been prepared to grant an increase in the cost of licences which is more in line with the true cost of issuing the licence. It is the policy of the Executive that no charge should be made for the enforcement of the licence. The draft regulations have gone through the consultation process and it is hoped that the proposed increases will be payable sometime in the new year. In order to simplify the present system of fee collection, the number of bands for licensing fees has been considerably reduced.

G.L.C. Conveyance by Hoad

At Havering Magistrates' Court a Kent transport firm was fined £100 for each of six contraventions of No. 12(2) of the Petr01eum Spirit (Conveyance by Regulations (filling openings insecurely closed) and £200 for an infringement of Regulation 11 in that the carrying tank was not JTla:i.ntainp.d At the start of this paper, it was mentioned that one of the requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Act relates to the progressive replacement of scheduled Acts by Health and Safety regulations. The Health and Safety Commission has already given approval to outline proposals zor the control of flammable gases and liquids by means of three sets of regulations; for the storage and use of fuel gases, the use of highly flammable liquids :he storage of highly flammable 11qu1ds. It is this third set of regulations which will eventually replace the 1928 Act and also other relevant leg· 1 . 1S at10n e.g. provisions Flammable Liquids and 1qu1f1ed 1972. Petrol eum Gases Regulations F actor1es were Act. made under the One of the . qUest10ns which will to be reso1v d . 1. . e 1S the extent to have which 1CenS1ng should be used for the control substan of th e storage of flammable of contce1 s .. At present, this form ro 1S only spirit and not f of other h. or used for petroleum the large number whO h 19h1y flammable liquids 1C are legislat. COvered b y health and safety will ha 10n. Another question which in ve Which to be c . ons1dered is the way enforced regulations will be ment res· e allocation of enforcetake· ponsibilities will have to 1nto account of the st the nature and size orage Th . have to b . ere w1ll obviously e an exten . process bef S1ve consultation ore any . storage of h' regu1at10ns for the can be fin a 1sed. flammable liquidS

in good Condition C awarded t . osts of £75 were o the Council.

The Offences were wagon was . detected when the tank was 1nvolved noticed th . 1n an accident d an it a part of th at petrol was leaking from Signs of tank which showed

SUFFOLK Conveyance by Road

On 29th September 1978 at Edmunds M . ag1strates , Court ,