http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/2/section/1/1991-07-25Customs and Excise Management Act 1979An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to the collection and management of the revenues of customs and excise and in some cases to other matters in relation to which the Commissioners of Customs and Excise for the time being perform functions, with amendments to give effect to recommendations of the Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission.1980-02-29texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-10-111991-07-25 Part I Preliminary Interpretation. <CommentaryRef Ref="c14763951"/>11In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—aerodrome ” means any area of land or water designed, equipped, set apart of commonly used for affording facilities for the landing and departure of aircraft;approved route ” has the meaning given by section 26 below;approved wharf ” has the meaning given by section 20 below;armed forces ” means the Royal Navy, the Royal Marines, the regular army and the regular air force, and any reserve or auxiliary force of any of those services which has been called out on permanent service, or called into actual service, or embodied;assigned matter ” means any matter in relation to which the Commissioners are for the time being required in pursuance of any enactment to perform any duties;boarding station ” means a boarding station for the time being appointed under section 19 below;boundary ” means the land boundary of Northern Ireland;British ship ” means a British ship within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894, so, however, as not to include a ship registered in any country other than the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or a colony within the meaning of the British Nationality Act 1948;claimant ”, in relation to proceedings for the condemnation of any thing as being forfeited, means a person claiming that the thing is not liable to forfeiture;coasting ship ” has the meaning given by section 69 below;commander ”, in relation to an aircraft, includes any person having or taking the charge or command of the aircraft;the Commissioners ” means the Commissioners of Customs and Excise;Community transit goods ”—ain relation to imported goods, means—igoods which have been imported under the internal or external Community transit procedure for transit through the United Kingdom with a view to exportation where the importation was and the transit and exportation are to be part of one Community transit operation; oriigoods which have, at the port or airport at which they were imported, been placed under the internal or external Community transit procedure for transit through the United Kingdom with a view to exportation where the transit and exportation are to be part of one Community transit operation;bin relation to goods for exportation, means—igoods which have been imported as mentioned in paragraph (a)(i) of this definition and are to be exported as part of the Community transit operation in the course of which they were imported; oriigoods which have, under the internal or external Community transit procedure, transited the United Kingdom from the port or airport at which they were imported and are to be exported as part of the Community transit operation which commenced at that port or airport and for the purposes of paragraph (a)(i) above the Isle of Man shall be treated as if it were part of the United Kingdom;container ” includes any bundle or package and any box, cask or other receptacle whatsoever;the customs and excise Acts ” means the Customs and Excise Acts 1979 and any other enactment for the time being in force relating to customs or excise;the Customs and Excise Acts 1979 ” means—this Act,the Customs and Excise Duties (General Reliefs) Act 1979,the Alcoholic Liquor Duties Act 1979,the Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979,the Matches and Mechanical Lighters Duties Act 1979, andthe Tobacco Products Duty Act 1979;customs warehouse ” means a place of security approved by the Commissioners under subsection (2) (whether or not it is also approved under subsection (1)) of section 92 below;customs and excise airport ” has the meaning given by section 21(7) below;customs and excise station ” has the meaning given by section 26 below; designation order ” has the meaning given by section 100A(5);drawback goods ” means goods in the case of which a claim for drawback has been or is to be made;dutiable goods ”, except in the expression “dutiable or restricted goods ”, means goods of a class or description subject to any duty of customs or excise, whether or not those goods are in fact chargeable with that duty, and whether or not that duty has been paid thereon;dutiable or restricted goods ” has the meaning given by section 52 below;examination station ” has the meaning given by section 22 below;excise licence trade ” means, subject to subsection (5) below, a trade or business for the carrying on of which an excise licence is required;excise warehouse ” means a place of security approved by the Commissioners under subsection (1) (whether or not it is also approved under subsection (2)) of section 92 below, and, except in that section, also includes a distiller’s warehouse;exporter ”, in relation to goods for exportation or for use as stores, includes the shipper of the goods and any person performing in relation to an aircraft functions corresponding with those of a shipper; free zone ” has the meaning given by section 100A(2);free zone goods ” has the meaning given by section 100B(2);free zone regulations ” has the meaning given by section 100B(1);goods ” includes stores and baggage;holiday ”, in relation to any part of the United Kingdom, means any day that is a bank holiday in that part of the United Kingdom under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, Christmas Day, Good Friday and the day appointed for the purposes of customs and excise for the celebration of Her Majesty’s birthday;hovercraft ” means a hovercraft within the meaning of the Hovercraft Act 1968;importer ”, in relation to any goods at any time between their importation and the time when they are delivered out of charge, includes any owner or other person for the time being possessed of or beneficially interested in the goods and, in relation to goods imported by means of a pipe-line, includes the owner of the pipe-line;justice ” and “justice of the peace ” in Scotland includes a sheriff and in Northern Ireland, in relation to any powers and duties which can under any enactment for the time being in force be exercised and performed only by a resident magistrate, means a resident magistrate;land ” and “landing ”, in relation to aircraft, include alighting on water;law officer of the Crown ” means the Attorney General or in Scotland the Lord Advocate or in Northern Ireland the Attorney General for Northern Ireland;licence year ”, in relation to an excise licence issuable annually, means the period of 12 months ending on the date on which that licence expires in any year;master ”, in relation to a ship, includes any person having or taking the charge or command of the ship;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . night ” means the period between 11 pm and 5 am;occupier ”, in relation to any bonded premises, means the person who has given security to the Crown in respect of those premises;officer ” means, subject to section 8(2) below, a person commissioned by the Commissioners;owner ”, in relation to an aircraft, includes the operator of the aircraft;owner ”, in relation to a pipe-line, means (except in the case of a pipe-line vested in the Crown which in pursuance of arrangements in that behalf is operated by another) the person in whom the line is vested and, in the said excepted case, means the person operating the line; perfect entry ” means an entry made in accordance with section 37 below or warehousing regulations, as the case may require;pipe-line ” has the meaning given by section 65 of the Pipe-lines Act 1962 (that Act being taken, for the purposes of this definition, to extend to Northern Ireland);port ” means a port appointed by the Commissioners under section 19 below;prescribed area ” means such an area in Northen Ireland adjoining the boundary as the Commissioners may by regulations prescribe;prescribed sum ”, in relation to the penalty provided for an offence, has the meaning given by section 171(2) below;prohibited or restricted goods ” means goods of a class or description of which the importation, exportation or carriage coastwise is for the time being prohibited or restricted under or by virtue of any enactment;proper ”, in relation to the person by, with or to whom, or the place at which, anything is to be done, means the person or place appointed or authorised in that behalf by the Commissioners;proprietor ”, in relation to any goods, includes any owner, importer, exporter, shipping or other person for the time being possessed of or beneficially interested in those goods;Queen’s warehouse ” means any place provided by the Crown or appointed by the Commissioners for the deposit of goods for security thereof and of the duties chargeable thereon; registered excise dealer and shipper ” means a revenue trader approved and registered by the Commissioners under section 100G below;registered excise dealers and shippers regulations ” means regulations under section 100G below;the revenue trade provisions of the customs and excise Acts ” means—the provisions of the customs and excise Acts relating to the protection, security, collection or management of the revenues derived from the duties of excise on goods produced or manufactured in the United Kingdom;the provisions of the customs and excise Acts relating to any activity or facility for the carrying on or provision of which an excise licence is required; andthe provisions of the Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1972 (so far as not included in paragraph (b) above);revenue trader ” meansany person carrying on a trade or business subject to any of the revenue trade provisions of the customs and excise Acts, or which consists of or includes—the buying, selling, importation, exportation, dealing in or handling of any goods of a class or description which is subject to a duty of excise (whether or not duty is chargeable on the goods); orthe financing or facilitation of any such transactions or activities,whether or not that trade or business is an excise licence trade, ; andany person who is a wholesaler or an occupier of an excise warehouse (so far as not included in paragraph (a) above),includes a registered club;ship ” and “vessel ” include any boat or other vessel whatsoever (and, to the extent provided in section 2 below, any hovercraft);shipment ” includes loading into an aircraft, and “shipped ” and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;stores ” means, subject to subsection (4) below, goods for use in a ship or aircraft and includes fuel and spare parts and other articles of equipment, whether or not for immediate fitting;tons register ” means the tons of a ship’s net tonnage as ascertained and registered according to the tonnage regulations of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 or, in the case of a ship which is not registered under that Act, ascertained in like manner as if it were to be so registered;transit goods ”, except in the expression “Community transit goods ”, means imported goods entered on importation for transit or transhipment;transit or transhipment ”, in relation to the entry of goods, means transit through the United Kingdom or transhipment with a view to the re-exportation of the goods in question or transhipment of those goods for use as stores;transit shed ” has the meaning given by section 25 below; United Kingdom waters ”means any waters (including inland waters) within the seaward limits of the territorial sea of the United Kingdom;vehicle ” includes a railway vehicle;warehouse ”, except in the expressions “Queen’s warehouse ” and “distiller’s warehouse ”, means a place of security approved by the Commissioners under subsection (1) or (2) or subsections (1) and (2) of section 92 below and, except in that section, also includes a distiller’s warehouse; and “warehoused ” and cognate expressions shall, subject to subsection (4) of that section, be construed accordingly;warehousing regulations ” means regulations under section 93 below.2This Act and the other Acts included in the Customs and Excise Acts 1979 shall be construed as one Act but where a provision of this Act refers to this Act that reference is not to be construed as including a reference to any of the others.3Any expression used in this Act or in any instrument made under this Act to which a meaning is given by any other Act included in the Customs and Excise Acts 1979 has, except where the context otherwise requires, the same meaning in this Act or any such instrument as in that Act; and for ease of reference the Table below indicates the expressions used in this Act to which a meaning is given by any other such Act—Alcoholic Liquor Duties Act 1979 “beer ” “brewer ” and “brewer for sale ” “cider ” “compounder ” “distiller ” “distiller’s warehouse ” “dutiable alcoholic liquor ”licensed ”, in relation to producers of wine or made-wine “made-wine ” “producer of made-wine ” “producer of wine ” “proof ” “rectifier ” “registered club ” “spirits ” “wholesaler ” “wine ”Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979 “rebate ” “refinery ”Tobacco Products Duty Act 1979 “tobacco products ”4Subject to section 12 of the Customs and Excise Duties (General Reliefs) Act 1979 (by which goods for use in naval ships or establishments may be required to be treated as exported), any goods for use in a ship or aircraft as merchandise for sale by retail to persons carried therein shall be treated for the purposes of the customs and excise Acts as stores, and any reference in those Acts to the consumption of stores shall, in relation to goods so treated, be construed as referring to the sale thereof as aforesaid.5A person who deals in or sells tobacco products in the course of a trade or business carried on by him shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to be carrying on an excise licence trade (and to be a revenue trader) notwithstanding that no excise licence is required for carrying on that trade or business.6In computing for the purposes of this Act any period expressed therein as a period of clear days no account shall be taken of the day of the event from which the period is computed or of any Sunday or holiday.7The provisions of this Act in so far as they relate to customs duties apply, notwithstanding that any duties are imposed for the benefit of the Communities, as if the revenue from duties so imposed remained part of the revenues of the Crown.S. 1 amended by S.I. 1987/2114, reg. 21894 c. 60. 1948 c. 56. Words inserted by Isle of Man Act 1979 (c. 58), Sch. 1 para. 21979 c. 3. 1979 c. 4. 1979 c. 5. 1979 c. 6. 1979 c. 7. Definition inserted by Finance Act 1984 (c. 43, SIF 40:1), s. 8, Sch. 4 Pt. II para. 1Definitions inserted by Finance Act 1984 (c. 43, SIF 40:1), s. 8, Sch. 4 Pt. II para. 11971 c. 80. 1968 c. 59. Definition repealed by Territorial Sea Act 1987 (c. 49, SIF 29:1), s. 3, Sch. 2Definition repealed (prosp.) by Finance Act 1981 (c. 35, SIF 40:1), Sch. 19 Pt. I1962 c. 58. Definitions in s. 1(1) inserted (25.7.1991) by Finance Act 1991 (c. 31), s. 11(1)1972 c. 25. “(a) ” inserted by Finance Act 1981 (c. 35, SIF 40:1), s. 11, Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 1(1)Words in s. 1(1) inserted (25.7.1991) by Finance Act 1991 (c. 31), s. 11(2)Words substituted by Finance Act 1981 (c. 35, SIF 40:1), s. 11, Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 1(1)1894 c. 60. Words added by Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 (c. 51), s. 103(3)Definition inserted by Territorial Sea Act 1987 (c. 49, SIF 29:1), s. 3, Sch. 1 para. 4(1)Word inserted by Finance Act 1981 (c. 35, SIF 40:1), s. 11, Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 1(2)1979 c. 3.
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Interpretation.
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</Para>
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<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c14764021"/>
Matches and Mechanical Lighters Duties Act 1979, and
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c14764031"/>
Tobacco Products Duty Act 1979;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
</UnorderedList>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-customs-warehouse">customs warehouse </Term>
” means a place of security approved by the Commissioners under subsection (2) (whether or not it is also approved under subsection (1)) of section 92 below;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-customs-and-excise-airport">customs and excise airport </Term>
” has the meaning given by section 21(7) below;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-customs-and-excise-station">customs and excise station </Term>
” has the meaning given by section 26 below;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49105" CommentaryRef="c14764041"></Addition>
<Term id="term-designation-order">
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49105" CommentaryRef="c14764041">designation order </Addition>
</Term>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49105" CommentaryRef="c14764041">” has the meaning given by section 100A(5);</Addition>
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-drawback-goods">drawback goods </Term>
” means goods in the case of which a claim for drawback has been or is to be made;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-dutiable-goods">dutiable goods </Term>
”, except in the expression “dutiable or restricted goods ”, means goods of a class or description subject to any duty of customs or excise, whether or not those goods are in fact chargeable with that duty, and whether or not that duty has been paid thereon;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-dutiable-or-restricted-goods">dutiable or restricted goods </Term>
” has the meaning given by section 52 below;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-examination-station">examination station </Term>
” has the meaning given by section 22 below;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-excise-licence-trade">excise licence trade </Term>
” means, subject to subsection (5) below, a trade or business for the carrying on of which an excise licence is required;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-excise-warehouse">excise warehouse </Term>
” means a place of security approved by the Commissioners under subsection (1) (whether or not it is also approved under subsection (2)) of section 92 below, and, except in that section, also includes a distiller’s warehouse;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-exporter">exporter </Term>
”, in relation to goods for exportation or for use as stores, includes the shipper of the goods and any person performing in relation to an aircraft functions corresponding with those of a shipper;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49164" CommentaryRef="c14764051"></Addition>
<Term id="term-free-zone">
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49164" CommentaryRef="c14764051">free zone </Addition>
</Term>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49164" CommentaryRef="c14764051">” has the meaning given by section 100A(2);</Addition>
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49164" CommentaryRef="c14764051"></Addition>
<Term id="term-free-zone-goods">
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49164" CommentaryRef="c14764051">free zone goods </Addition>
</Term>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49164" CommentaryRef="c14764051">” has the meaning given by section 100B(2);</Addition>
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49164" CommentaryRef="c14764051"></Addition>
<Term id="term-free-zone-regulations">
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49164" CommentaryRef="c14764051">free zone regulations </Addition>
</Term>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49164" CommentaryRef="c14764051">” has the meaning given by section 100B(1);</Addition>
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-goods">goods </Term>
” includes stores and baggage;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-holiday">holiday </Term>
”, in relation to any part of the United Kingdom, means any day that is a bank holiday in that part of the United Kingdom under the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c14764061"/>
Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, Christmas Day, Good Friday and the day appointed for the purposes of customs and excise for the celebration of Her Majesty’s birthday;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-hovercraft">hovercraft </Term>
” means a hovercraft within the meaning of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c14764071"/>
Hovercraft Act 1968;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-importer">importer </Term>
”, in relation to any goods at any time between their importation and the time when they are delivered out of charge, includes any owner or other person for the time being possessed of or beneficially interested in the goods and, in relation to goods imported by means of a pipe-line, includes the owner of the pipe-line;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-justice">justice </Term>
” and “
<Term id="term-justice-of-the-peace">justice of the peace </Term>
” in Scotland includes a sheriff and in Northern Ireland, in relation to any powers and duties which can under any enactment for the time being in force be exercised and performed only by a resident magistrate, means a resident magistrate;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-land">land </Term>
” and “
<Term id="term-landing">landing </Term>
”, in relation to aircraft, include alighting on water;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-law-officer-of-the-crown">law officer of the Crown </Term>
” means the Attorney General or in Scotland the Lord Advocate or in Northern Ireland the Attorney General for Northern Ireland;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-licence-year">licence year </Term>
”, in relation to an excise licence issuable annually, means the period of 12 months ending on the date on which that licence expires in any year;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-master">master </Term>
”, in relation to a ship, includes any person having or taking the charge or command of the ship;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
<CommentaryRef Ref="c14764081"/>
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-night">night </Term>
” means the period between 11 pm and 5 am;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-occupier">occupier </Term>
”, in relation to any bonded premises, means the person who has given security to the Crown in respect of those premises;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-officer">officer </Term>
” means, subject to section 8(2) below, a person commissioned by the Commissioners;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-owner">owner </Term>
”, in relation to an aircraft, includes the operator of the aircraft;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-owner">owner </Term>
”, in relation to a pipe-line, means (except in the case of a pipe-line vested in the Crown which in pursuance of arrangements in that behalf is operated by another) the person in whom the line is vested and, in the said excepted case, means the person operating the line;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49301" CommentaryRef="c14764091"></Addition>
<Term id="term-perfect-entry">
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49301" CommentaryRef="c14764091">perfect entry </Addition>
</Term>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49301" CommentaryRef="c14764091">” means an entry made in accordance with section 37 below or warehousing regulations, as the case may require;</Addition>
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-pipe-line">pipe-line </Term>
” has the meaning given by section 65 of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c14764101"/>
Pipe-lines Act 1962 (that Act being taken, for the purposes of this definition, to extend to Northern Ireland);
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-port">port </Term>
” means a port appointed by the Commissioners under section 19 below;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-prescribed-area">prescribed area </Term>
” means such an area in Northen Ireland adjoining the boundary as the Commissioners may by regulations prescribe;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-prescribed-sum">prescribed sum </Term>
”, in relation to the penalty provided for an offence, has the meaning given by section 171(2) below;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-prohibited-or-restricted-goods">prohibited or restricted goods </Term>
” means goods of a class or description of which the importation, exportation or carriage coastwise is for the time being prohibited or restricted under or by virtue of any enactment;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-proper">proper </Term>
”, in relation to the person by, with or to whom, or the place at which, anything is to be done, means the person or place appointed or authorised in that behalf by the Commissioners;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-proprietor">proprietor </Term>
”, in relation to any goods, includes any owner, importer, exporter, shipping or other person for the time being possessed of or beneficially interested in those goods;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-queens-warehouse">Queen’s warehouse </Term>
” means any place provided by the Crown or appointed by the Commissioners for the deposit of goods for security thereof and of the duties chargeable thereon;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49369" CommentaryRef="c14764111"></Addition>
<Term id="term-registered-excise-dealer-and-shipper">
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49369" CommentaryRef="c14764111"> registered excise dealer and shipper </Addition>
</Term>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49369" CommentaryRef="c14764111">” means a revenue trader approved and registered by the Commissioners under section 100G below;</Addition>
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49369" CommentaryRef="c14764111"></Addition>
<Term id="term-registered-excise-dealers-and-shippers-regulations">
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49369" CommentaryRef="c14764111">registered excise dealers and shippers regulations </Addition>
</Term>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49369" CommentaryRef="c14764111">” means regulations under section 100G below;</Addition>
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-the-revenue-trade-provisions-of-the-customs-and-excise-acts">the revenue trade provisions of the customs and excise Acts </Term>
” means—
</Text>
</Para>
<OrderedList Type="alpha" Decoration="parens">
<ListItem NumberOverride="a">
<Para>
<Text>the provisions of the customs and excise Acts relating to the protection, security, collection or management of the revenues derived from the duties of excise on goods produced or manufactured in the United Kingdom;</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem NumberOverride="b">
<Para>
<Text>the provisions of the customs and excise Acts relating to any activity or facility for the carrying on or provision of which an excise licence is required; and</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem NumberOverride="c">
<Para>
<Text>
the provisions of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c14764121"/>
Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1972 (so far as not included in paragraph (b) above);
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
</OrderedList>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-revenue-trader">revenue trader </Term>
” means
</Text>
</Para>
<OrderedList Type="alpha" Decoration="parens">
<ListItem NumberOverride="a">
<Para>
<Text>
<CommentaryRef Ref="c14764131"/>
any person carrying on a trade or business subject to any of the revenue trade provisions of the customs and excise Acts,
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49422" CommentaryRef="c14764141">or which consists of or includes—</Addition>
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem NumberOverride="i">
<Para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49422" CommentaryRef="c14764141">the buying, selling, importation, exportation, dealing in or handling of any goods of a class or description which is subject to a duty of excise (whether or not duty is chargeable on the goods); or</Addition>
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem NumberOverride="ii">
<Para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49422" CommentaryRef="c14764141">the financing or facilitation of any such transactions or activities,</Addition>
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
</OrderedList>
<Para>
<BlockText>
<Para>
<Text>
whether or not that trade or business is an excise licence trade,
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49438" CommentaryRef="c14764151">; and</Addition>
</Text>
</Para>
</BlockText>
</Para>
<OrderedList Type="alpha" Decoration="parens">
<ListItem NumberOverride="b">
<Para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49438" CommentaryRef="c14764151">any person who is a wholesaler or an occupier of an excise warehouse (so far as not included in paragraph (</Addition>
<Emphasis>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49438" CommentaryRef="c14764151">a</Addition>
</Emphasis>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49438" CommentaryRef="c14764151">) above),</Addition>
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
</OrderedList>
<Para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49438" CommentaryRef="c14764151">includes a registered club</Addition>
;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-ship">ship </Term>
” and “
<Term id="term-vessel">vessel </Term>
” include any boat or other vessel whatsoever (and, to the extent provided in section 2 below, any hovercraft);
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-shipment">shipment </Term>
” includes loading into an aircraft, and “shipped ” and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-stores">stores </Term>
” means, subject to subsection (4) below, goods for use in a ship or aircraft and includes fuel and spare parts and other articles of equipment, whether or not for immediate fitting;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-tons-register">tons register </Term>
” means the tons of a ship’s net tonnage as ascertained and registered according to the tonnage regulations of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c14764161"/>
Merchant Shipping Act 1894 or, in the case of a ship which is not registered under that Act, ascertained in like manner as if it were to be so registered;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-transit-goods">transit goods </Term>
”, except in the expression “Community transit goods ”, means imported goods entered on importation for transit or transhipment;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-transit-or-transhipment">transit or transhipment </Term>
”, in relation to the entry of goods, means transit through the United Kingdom or transhipment with a view to the re-exportation of the goods in question
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49500" CommentaryRef="c14764171">or transhipment of those goods for use as stores</Addition>
;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-transit-shed">transit shed </Term>
” has the meaning given by section 25 below;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49511" CommentaryRef="c14764181"></Addition>
<Term id="term-united-kingdom-waters">
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49511" CommentaryRef="c14764181">United Kingdom waters </Addition>
</Term>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49511" CommentaryRef="c14764181">”means any waters (including inland waters) within the seaward limits of the territorial sea of the United Kingdom;</Addition>
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-vehicle">vehicle </Term>
” includes a railway vehicle;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-warehouse">warehouse </Term>
”, except in the expressions “Queen’s warehouse ” and “distiller’s warehouse ”, means a place of security approved by the Commissioners under subsection (1) or (2) or subsections (1) and (2) of section 92 below and, except in that section, also includes a distiller’s warehouse; and “warehoused ” and cognate expressions shall, subject to subsection (4) of that section, be construed accordingly;
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-warehousing-regulations">warehousing regulations </Term>
” means regulations under section 93 below.
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
</UnorderedList>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/2/section/1/2/1991-07-25" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1979/2/section/1/2" id="section-1-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>This Act and the other Acts included in the Customs and Excise Acts 1979 shall be construed as one Act but where a provision of this Act refers to this Act that reference is not to be construed as including a reference to any of the others.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/2/section/1/3/1991-07-25" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1979/2/section/1/3" id="section-1-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Any expression used in this Act or in any instrument made under this Act to which a meaning is given by any other Act included in the Customs and Excise Acts 1979 has, except where the context otherwise requires, the same meaning in this Act or any such instrument as in that Act; and for ease of reference the Table below indicates the expressions used in this Act to which a meaning is given by any other such Act—</Text>
</P2para>
<P2para>
<Text>
<Emphasis>Alcoholic Liquor Duties Act 1979</Emphasis>
</Text>
</P2para>
<P2para>
<UnorderedList Decoration="none">
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text> “beer ”</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text> “brewer ” and “brewer for sale ”</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text> “cider ”</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text> “compounder ”</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text> “distiller ”</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text> “distiller’s warehouse ”</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text> “dutiable alcoholic liquor ”</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-licensed">licensed </Term>
”, in relation to producers of wine or made-wine
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text> “made-wine ”</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text> “producer of made-wine ”</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text> “producer of wine ”</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text> “proof ”</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text> “rectifier ”</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text> “registered club ”</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text> “spirits ”</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Addition ChangeId="d29p49624" CommentaryRef="c14764191"> “wholesaler ”</Addition>
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text> “wine ”</Text>
</Para>
<Para>
<Text>
<Emphasis>Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979</Emphasis>
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text> “rebate ”</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text> “refinery ”</Text>
</Para>
<Para>
<Text>
<Emphasis>Tobacco Products Duty Act 1979</Emphasis>
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text> “tobacco products ”</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
</UnorderedList>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/2/section/1/4/1991-07-25" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1979/2/section/1/4" id="section-1-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
Subject to section 12 of the
<CommentaryRef Ref="c14764201"/>
Customs and Excise Duties (General Reliefs) Act 1979 (by which goods for use in naval ships or establishments may be required to be treated as exported), any goods for use in a ship or aircraft as merchandise for sale by retail to persons carried therein shall be treated for the purposes of the customs and excise Acts as stores, and any reference in those Acts to the consumption of stores shall, in relation to goods so treated, be construed as referring to the sale thereof as aforesaid.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/2/section/1/5/1991-07-25" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1979/2/section/1/5" id="section-1-5">
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>A person who deals in or sells tobacco products in the course of a trade or business carried on by him shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to be carrying on an excise licence trade (and to be a revenue trader) notwithstanding that no excise licence is required for carrying on that trade or business.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/2/section/1/6/1991-07-25" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1979/2/section/1/6" id="section-1-6">
<Pnumber>6</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>In computing for the purposes of this Act any period expressed therein as a period of clear days no account shall be taken of the day of the event from which the period is computed or of any Sunday or holiday.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/2/section/1/7/1991-07-25" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1979/2/section/1/7" RestrictEndDate="2020-12-31" id="section-1-7" RestrictExtent="E+W+S+N.I.">
<Pnumber>7</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The provisions of this Act in so far as they relate to customs duties apply, notwithstanding that any duties are imposed for the benefit of the Communities, as if the revenue from duties so imposed remained part of the revenues of the Crown.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
</Part>
</Body>
</Primary>
<Commentaries>
<Commentary id="c14763951" Type="C">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="c04307" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1979/2/section/1" SectionRef="section-1">S. 1</CitationSubRef>
amended by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1987/2114" id="c04308" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1987" Number="2114">S.I. 1987/2114</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04309" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1987/2114/regulation/2" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04308" SectionRef="regulation-2">reg. 2</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14763961" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1894/60" id="c04310" Year="1894" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="60">1894 c. 60</Citation>
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</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14763971" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1948/56" id="c04311" Year="1948" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="56">1948 c. 56</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14763981" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1979/58" id="c04312" Year="1979" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="58" Title="Isle of Man Act 1979">Isle of Man Act 1979 (c. 58)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04313" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1979/58/schedule/1/paragraph/2" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04312" SectionRef="schedule-1-paragraph-2">Sch. 1 para. 2</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14763991" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1979/3" id="c04314" Year="1979" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="3">1979 c. 3</Citation>
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</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14764001" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1979/4" id="c04315" Year="1979" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="4">1979 c. 4</Citation>
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</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14764011" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1979/5" id="c04316" Year="1979" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="5">1979 c. 5</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14764021" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1979/6" id="c04317" Year="1979" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="6">1979 c. 6</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14764031" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1979/7" id="c04318" Year="1979" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="7">1979 c. 7</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14764041" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Definition inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/43" id="c04319" Year="1984" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="43" Title="Finance Act 1984">Finance Act 1984 (c. 43, SIF 40:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04320" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/43/section/8" CitationRef="c04319" SectionRef="section-8">s. 8</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04321" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/43/schedule/4/part/II/paragraph/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04319" SectionRef="schedule-4-part-II-paragraph-1">Sch. 4 Pt. II para. 1</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14764051" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Definitions inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/43" id="c04322" Year="1984" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="43" Title="Finance Act 1984">Finance Act 1984 (c. 43, SIF 40:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04323" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/43/section/8" CitationRef="c04322" SectionRef="section-8">s. 8</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04324" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/43/schedule/4/part/II/paragraph/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04322" SectionRef="schedule-4-part-II-paragraph-1">Sch. 4 Pt. II para. 1</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14764061" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1971/80" id="c04325" Year="1971" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="80">1971 c. 80</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14764071" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/59" id="c04326" Year="1968" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="59">1968 c. 59</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14764081" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Definition repealed by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1987/49" id="c04327" Year="1987" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="49" Title="Territorial Sea Act 1987">Territorial Sea Act 1987 (c. 49, SIF 29:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04328" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1987/49/section/3" CitationRef="c04327" SectionRef="section-3">s. 3</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04329" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1987/49/schedule/2" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04327" SectionRef="schedule-2">Sch. 2</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14764091" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Definition repealed (
<Emphasis>prosp.</Emphasis>
) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/35" id="c04330" Year="1981" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="35" Title="Finance Act 1981">Finance Act 1981 (c. 35, SIF 40:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04331" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/35/schedule/19/part/I" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04330" SectionRef="schedule-19-part-I">Sch. 19 Pt. I</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14764101" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1962/58" id="c04332" Year="1962" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="58">1962 c. 58</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14764111" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Definitions in s. 1(1) inserted (25.7.1991) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1991/31" id="c04333" Year="1991" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="31" Title="Finance Act 1991">Finance Act 1991 (c. 31)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04334" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1991/31/section/11/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04333" SectionRef="section-11-1">s. 11(1)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14764121" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1972/25" id="c04335" Year="1972" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="25">1972 c. 25</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14764131" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
“(
<Emphasis>a</Emphasis>
) ” inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/35" id="c04336" Year="1981" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="35" Title="Finance Act 1981">Finance Act 1981 (c. 35, SIF 40:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04337" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/35/section/11" CitationRef="c04336" SectionRef="section-11">s. 11</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04338" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/35/schedule/8/part/I/paragraph/1/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04336" SectionRef="schedule-8-part-I-paragraph-1-1">Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 1(1)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14764141" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words in
<CitationSubRef id="c04339" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1979/2/section/1/1" SectionRef="section-1-1">s. 1(1)</CitationSubRef>
inserted (25.7.1991) by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1991/31" id="c04340" Year="1991" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="31" Title="Finance Act 1991">Finance Act 1991 (c. 31)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04341" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1991/31/section/11/2" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04340" SectionRef="section-11-2">s. 11(2)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14764151" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words substituted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/35" id="c04342" Year="1981" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="35" Title="Finance Act 1981">Finance Act 1981 (c. 35, SIF 40:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04343" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/35/section/11" CitationRef="c04342" SectionRef="section-11">s. 11</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04344" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/35/schedule/8/part/I/paragraph/1/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04342" SectionRef="schedule-8-part-I-paragraph-1-1">Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 1(1)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14764161" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1894/60" id="c04345" Year="1894" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="60">1894 c. 60</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14764171" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Words added by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1987/51" id="c04346" Year="1987" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="51" Title="Finance (No. 2) Act 1987">Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 (c. 51)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04347" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1987/51/section/103/3" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04346" SectionRef="section-103-3">s. 103(3)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14764181" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Definition inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1987/49" id="c04348" Year="1987" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="49" Title="Territorial Sea Act 1987">Territorial Sea Act 1987 (c. 49, SIF 29:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04349" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1987/49/section/3" CitationRef="c04348" SectionRef="section-3">s. 3</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04350" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1987/49/schedule/1/paragraph/4/1" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04348" SectionRef="schedule-1-paragraph-4-1">Sch. 1 para. 4(1)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14764191" Type="F">
<Para>
<Text>
Word inserted by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/35" id="c04351" Year="1981" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="35" Title="Finance Act 1981">Finance Act 1981 (c. 35, SIF 40:1)</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04352" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/35/section/11" CitationRef="c04351" SectionRef="section-11">s. 11</CitationSubRef>
,
<CitationSubRef id="c04353" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1981/35/schedule/8/part/I/paragraph/1/2" Operative="true" CitationRef="c04351" SectionRef="schedule-8-part-I-paragraph-1-2">Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 1(2)</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
<Commentary id="c14764201" Type="M">
<Para>
<Text>
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1979/3" id="c04354" Year="1979" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="3">1979 c. 3</Citation>
.
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
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</Legislation>