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768 THE LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS.....ORDER, 2001

(n) “parallel marketing system for auto LPG” means the system, other than the
system followed by the Government Oil Company in marketing auto LPG,
under which a parallel marketeer carries on all or any of the business of
importing (including Auto LPG Import Substitution), storing, distribution
or selling auto LPG through dispensing stations under his own arrange-
ment;
(o) “Schedule” means the Schedule appended to this Order.]
3. Restriction on unauthorised acquisition or sale of auto LPG
(1) No person shall acquire, sell, store for sale, supply, fill or distribute auto LPG
to a consumer except according to the provisions contained in this Order.
(2) No person shall store, supply, sell or dispense auto LPG unless he is an auto
LPG dispensing station dealer.
(3) No person shall purchase or use auto LPG in a motor vehicle or vehicle unless
it is fitted with the auto LPG tank permanently fitted in the motor vehicle and a
conversion kit as approved by the authorities/testing agencies as notified in the Central
Motor Vehicles (3rd Amendment) Rules, 2001.
(4) No auto LPG dispensing station dealer or any other person acting on his behalf
shall fill the auto LPG tank permanently fitted in the motor vehicle in excess of eighty
per cent. of its total volumetric capacity.
(5) No auto LPG dispensing station dealer shall dispense auto LPG to any consumer
using motor vehicle fitted with auto LPG tank permanently fitted in the motor vehicle
and conversion/OEM dual fuel kit, which is not approved as per sub-paragraph (3).
(6) No auto LPG dispensing station dealer shall dispense auto LPG unless received
from Government Oil Companies/parallel marketeers and conforming to auto LPG
specification i.e. Indian Standard Specification No. IS:14861, as amended from time to
time.
4. Display of stock and price of auto LPG
Every auto LPG dispensing station dealer shall prominently display the stock and
selling price of auto LPG at a conspicuous place of the auto LPG dispensing station.
5. Procurement, storage and sale of auto LPG by the auto LPG dispensing station
dealer
(1) Every auto LPG dispensing station dealer shall procure or purchase auto LPG
from either a Government Oil Company or a parallel marketeer.
(2) Every auto LPG dispensing station dealer shall display the working hours
prominently at the place of auto LPG dispensing station at a conspicuous place.
(3) No auto LPG dispensing station dealer having stock of auto LPG at the auto
LPG dispensing station including the storage point, shall, unless otherwise directed by
a Government Oil Company or a parallel marketeer, refuse to sell auto LPG on any
working day during working hours to a consumer.
1
[(4) Every auto LPG dispensing station dealer shall—
(i) not keep the auto LPG dispensing station premises including the storage
point closed during the working hours, on any day without the prior written
permission of the Government Oil Company or a parallel marketeer;

1 Substituted vide GSR 99(E), dt. 24-2-2010.