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THE PETROLEUM ACT, 1934
ACT No. XXX of 1934

• An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the import,
transport, storage, production, refining and blending of petroleum and
other inflammable substances.
• WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to the
import, transport, storage, production, refining and blending of petroleum
and other inflammable substances ;
1. Short title extent and commencement.__ This Act may be
called the Petroleum Act, 1934.
2. Definitions. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant
in the subject or context,__
a) “petroleum” means any liquid hydrocarbon or mixture of hydrocarbons,
and any inflammable mixture (liquid, viscous or solid) containing any
liquid hydrocarbon ;
b) “dangerous petroleum” means petroleum having its flashing‑point below
seventy‑six degrees Fahrenheit ;
c) “flashing‑point” of any petroleum means the lowest temperature at
which it yields a vapour which will give a momentary flash when ignited,
determined in accordance with the provisions of Chapter II and the rules
made thereunder ;
d) “to transport” means to move petroleum from one place to
another within Pakistan, by land, sea or air, and includes moving
from one place to another in Pakistan across territory which is not
part of Pakistan ;]
e) “to import” petroleum means to bring it into 6 [Pakistan] by land,
sea or air, otherwise than during the course of transport ;
f) “to store” petroleum means to keep it in any one place, but does
not include any detention happening during the ordinary course of
transport ;
g) “motor conveyance” means any vehicle, vessel or aircraft for the
conveyance of human beings, animals or goods, by land, water or air,
in which petroleum is used to generate the motive power ;
h) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.
3. Import, transport and storage of petroleum._
I. No one shall import, transport or store any petroleum save in
accordance with the rules made under section 4.
II. Save in accordance with the conditions of any licence for the purpose
which he may be required to obtain by rules made under section 4, no
one shall import any dangerous petroleum, and no one shall transport
or store any petroleum.
4. Rules for the import, transport and storage of petroleum. The [Federal
Government] may make rules_
(a) prescribing places where petroleum may be imported and prohibiting its import elsewhere
;
(b) regulating the import of petroleum ;
(c) prescribing the periods within which licences for the import of dangerous petroleum shall
be applied for, and providing for the disposal, by confiscation or otherwise, of any dangerous
petroleum in respect of which a licence has not been applied for within the prescribed period
or has been refused and which has not been exported ;
(d) regulating the transport of petroleum ;
(e) specifying the nature and condition of all receptacles and pipe‑lines in which petroleum
may be transported;
(f) regulating the places at which and prescribing the conditions subject to which petroleum
may be stored ;
(g) specifying the nature, situation and condition of all receptacles in which petroleum may
be stored ;
(h) prescribing the form and conditions of licences for the import of dangerous petroleum,
and for the transport or storage of any petroleum, the manner in which applications for
such licences shall be made, the authorities which may grant such licences and the fees
which may be charged for such licences ;
(i) determining in any class of cases whether a licence for the transport of petroleum shall
be obtained by the consignor, consignee or carrier ;
(j) providing for the granting of combined licences for the import, transport and storage of
petroleum, or for any two of such purposes ;
(k) prescribing the proportion in which any specified poisonous substance may be added to
petroleum, and prohibiting the import, transport or storage of petroleum in which the
proportion of any specified poisonous substance exceeds the prescribed proportion ; and
(l) generally, providing for any matter which in [its] opinion is expedient for proper control
over the import, transport and storage of petroleum.
5. Production, refining and blending of petroleum.__ ) No one
shall produce, refine or blend petroleum save in accordance with
the rules made under sub‑section.
The [Federal Government] may make rules
(a) prescribing the conditions subject to which petroleum may be
produced, refined or blended ; and
(b) regulating the removal of petroleum from places where it is
produced, refined or blended and preventing the storage
therein and removal therefrom, except as dangerous
petroleum, of any petroleum which has not satisfied the
prescribed tests.

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