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If you are moving farm slurry you can employ an agricultural contractor using specialist equipment designed for the purpose to move it for you.

The definition of a private pleasure craft is given in section 11 of Fuel used in private pleasure craft and for private pleasure flying (Excise Notice 554). a vehicle only used for agricultural, horticultural or forestry purposes, that is licensed by the DVLA to use public roads only when passing between 2 areas of land occupied by the same person, and that distance is less than 1.5 kilometres by road the breeding, rearing or keeping of any creature solely for purposes relating to sport or recreation. Kerosene is a heating fuel and the excise duty on it is fully rebated (reducing the excise duty to nil). For this reason, it is illegal to use kerosene in any vehicle or to mix it with road fuels unless you have a permit from us allowing you to do so. organic or inorganic waste that is not to be used for the benefit of agricultural land or in an agricultural operationFor more details read Fuel used in private pleasure craft and for private pleasure flying (Excise Notice 554). 2.4 Machines and appliances for heating and electricity Certain types of vehicle and machinery, when being used for a particular purpose, can use rebated fuel. These are known as ‘excepted machines’.

A kerosene heating system is an excepted machine when it is being used to generate heat for any premises. Q. Does hedge cutting for agricultural, equine, domestic and local authority customers qualify for red diesel use? growing or harvesting of crops including cereals, combinable crops, roots, tubers, vegetables, pulses, fruit, nuts, grasses, oilseeds and fungi for food, beverages, fodder, fuel or industrial purposes delivering or collecting an agricultural vehicle or machine that has been bought, sold, loaned or hired and is or will be used for agricultural, horticultural or forestry purposes

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Private pleasure craft are not excepted machines. They can use red diesel in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), only if the user makes a declaration of how much fuel they’ll use for propulsion, and pays full excise duty on that amount. for purposes relating to agriculture, horticulture, aquatic farming or forestry, including when it’s going to or from the place where it’s used for these purposes