It looks as though the Government consolidated and simplified the law in 2014. I remember during the fuel protests in 2000 it emerged that as well as the quantity of petrol that you were allowed to store in metal and/or plastic Jerry cans you could store an additional quantity in glass pint bottles under some earlier act of parliament.
Technically you only need a licence to store more than 275 litres or 60 gallons in one place. However, for between 30 and 275 litres it is necessary to give "notice" to the petroleum enforcement authority and have equipment on site to deal with fire and spillage.
Whilst not explicitly stated, I expect in practice you would also require a fairly good reason to keep more than 30 litres on domestic premises once the authorities had been informed.
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