Three petrol stations sold gas to under-age volunteer

A TRIO of South Lanarkshire filling stations have received formal warnings after petrol was sold to an under-age volunteer during a test purchase exercise last month.

By The Newsroom

Published 15th Sep 2010, 14:08 BST

The sales were made to a 14-year-old, carrying out test purchases on behalf of South Lanarkshire Council's Consumer and Trading Standards Service.

The companies were warned for breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928.

The test purchase exercise visited eight petrol stations across South Lanarkshire in August. And at three of them, an under-age volunteer was able to dispense and buy petrol, amounting to a 37.5 per cent failure rate.

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