Page 797 - The Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989

THE LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS.....ORDER, 2001 769

(ii) prominently display the written permission obtained for keeping the
premises, storage points, including the auto LPG dispensing station, closed
during working hours on any day at a conspicuous place of the auto LPG
dispensing station.
Explanation : For the purpose of sub-paragraphs (2), (3) and (4), the expression
‘working hours’ means the working hours fixed by the concerned Government Oil
Company or a parallel marketeer in accordance with the provisions of the Shops and
Establishment Act, and the rules made thereunder, as in force in the respective State or
Union Territory, as the case may be.]
(5) Every auto LPG dispensing station dealer shall take steps to ensure adequate
availability of stocks of auto LPG at the auto LPG dispensing station at all times.
(6) No auto LPG dispensing station dealer shall sell auto LPG at a price higher than
that fixed by the Government Oil Company or a parallel marketeer, as the case may be.
6. Assessment and certification rating of parallel marketeers
(1) (a) No parallel marketeer shall commence any activity, such as import
(including Auto LPG Import Substitution), transport, marketing,
distribution, sale or any activity incidental thereto, relating to the business
of auto LPG to be used as automotive fuel without obtaining a minimum of
low risk rating certificate, on the basis of evaluation and rating for his
capability, infrastructure network and readiness to carry out professed
business and delivery of goods and services promised by him by an agency
specified in Schedule I:
PROVIDED that a parallel marketeer carrying on the business of
transportation, marketing, distribution or selling of auto LPG for
automotive fuel, as an agent of another parallel marketeer, who has
obtained a minimum of low risk rating certificate, shall not be required to
obtain a rating certificate.
Explanation : For the purpose of this sub-paragraph, a parallel marketeer
shall be an agent of another parallel marketeer if the former is appointed as
such, for the above purposes by the latter through a legal instrument.
(b) The rating certificate shall be issued in the format as specified in Schedule
II and as per the forwarding letter given in Schedule IV.
(2) The rating certificate shall—
(i) be valid for a period of two years in case of ’Good’ and ’Satisfactory’ rating
and one year in case of other ratings from the date of its issue, and
(ii) require renewal by the rating agency.
(3) Every parallel marketeer announcing details of his activity or inviting offers of
any kind in the field of import (including Auto LPG Import Substitution), transport,
marketing, distribution or sale of auto LPG for automotive fuel, either in a newspaper,
handout, pamphlet, leaflet or by any other means of communication or advertising shall
indicate the rating awarded to him in words, i.e., Good, Satisfactory, Low-Risk,
High-Risk, whichever is applicable, and prominently publish the rating certificate, as
given by the rating agency.
(4) There shall be paid in respect of every application to a rating agency—
(i) for the rating certificate awarded to the parallel marketeer, a fee at the rate
of 0.05% of the project cost, subject to a minimum of rupees fifty thousand
and maximum of rupees ten lakhs;