Aviation Turbine Fuel (Regulation of Marketing) Order, 2001
Sampling of Aviation Turbine Fuel—(a) the officer authorised in para 8 shall draw the sample from the tank, refueler, pipeline, vehicle or receptacle as the case may be to check whether aviation turbine fuel conforms to the requirements of Bureau of Indian Standards specification;
(b) samples shall be taken in clean glass or aluminium containers. Plastic containers shall not be used for drawing samples.
(c) the officer authorised in para 8 shall take, sign and seal 3 samples of 1 litre each of aviation turbine fuel. The sample label should be jointly signed by the officer who has drawn the sample, and the concerned all company or concerned person or his representative and the label shall contain information as regards name of the oil company/person, quantity of sample, date, name and signature of the officer, name and signature of the oil company or of the concerned person or his representative.
(d) 1 sample of aviation turbine fuel would be given to the oil company or transporter or concerned person or his representative under acknowledgement with instruction to preserve the sample in his safe custody till the testing or investigations are completed, 1 sample would be kept by the officer authorised and the remaining 1 sample would be used for laboratory analysis.
(e) the authorised officer shall send the samples of aviation turbine fuel taken under sub-para (b) within 10 days to any of the laboratories, authorised by the Director General Civil Aviation, Ministry of Civil Aviation and Director General Aeronautical Quality Assurance, Ministry of Defence, to test aviation turbine fuel samples for analysing with a view to checking whether aviation turbine fuel conforms to the requirements of Bureau of Indian Standards specifications. The authorised laboratory should furnish the test report to the authorised officer within 10 days of receipt of sample at the laboratory. The authorised officer shall communicate the test result to the concerned all company or transporter or person within 5 days of receipt of test results from laboratory.
