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(1)After section 13 of the M1Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979 there shall be inserted the following section—
(1)On unleaded petrol charged with the excise duty on hydrocarbon oil and delivered for home use there shall be allowed at the time of delivery a rebate of duty at the rate of £0.0096 a litre.
(2)For the purposes of this section petrol is “unleaded” if it contains not more than 0.013 grams of lead per litre of petrol or, if the petrol is delivered for home use before 1st April 1990, not more than 0.020 grams of lead per litre of petrol.
(3)Rebate shall not be allowed under this section in any case where it is allowed under section 14 below.”
(2)In section 24 of that Act (control of use of duty-free and rebated oil) in subsection (1) (power of Commissioners to make regulations) after the words “section 12” there shall be inserted “ section 13A ”.
(3)In section 27 of that Act (interpretation) in the definition of “rebate” after the words “section 11” there shall be inserted “ 13A ”.
(4)This section shall be deemed to have come into force at 6 o’clock in the evening of 17th March 1987.
(1)The M2Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971 and the M3Vehicles (Excise) Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 shall be amended in accordance with this section.
(2)In Schedule 4 to each of the Acts of 1971 and 1972 (annual rates of duty on goods vehicles)—
F1(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2
(3)In section 16 of the Act of 1971, in subsection (5) (annual rates of duty for trade licences), including that subsection as set out in paragraph 12 of Part I of Schedule 7 to that Act, for “£70” and “£14” there shall be subsituted respectively “£85” and “£17”.
F3(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(5)The amendments of the Acts of 1971 and 1972 set out in Part II of Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect for the purpose of, and in connection with, establishing recovery vehicles as a class of vehicles chargeable with a specific duty of excise.
(6)The Acts of 1971 and 1972 and section 102 of the M4Customs and Excise Management Act of 1979, as it applies in relation to licences under the Act of 1971, shall have effect subject to the further amendments in Part III of Schedule 1 to this Act.
(7)Subsection (2) above applies in relation to licences taken out after 17th March 1987; and subsections (3) to (5) above apply in relation to licences taken out after 31st December 1987.
(8)In Part III of Schedule 1 to this Act—
(a)paragraphs 8 to 11 shall not affect any amount payable in respect of any day before the day on which this Act is passed,
(b)paragraphs 12 and 13 shall not affect any amount payable in respect of, or any part of, the calendar month in which this Act is passed or in respect of, or any part of, any previous calendar month, and
(c)paragraphs 20 and 21 shall not affect the penalty for an offence committed before the passing of this Act,
but, subject to that, that Part of that Schedule shall come into force on the passing of this Act.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 2(2)(a) repealed (8.11.1993) by S.I. 1993/2452, art. 3, Sch.2
F2S. 2(2)(b) repealed by Finance Act 1990 (c. 29, SIF 107:2), s. 132, Sch. 19 Pt. II (in relation to licences taken out after 20.3.1990)
F3S. 2(4) repealed (1.10.1991) by Finance Act 1991 (c. 31, SIF 107:2), ss. 10, 123, Sch. 19 Pt. IV; S.I. 1991/2021, art. 2.
Marginal Citations
(1)General betting duty shall not be chargeable on any bet made on or after 29th March 1987 which is an on-course bet within the meaning of Part I of the M5Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981 (in this section referred to as “the 1981 Act”) and, accordingly, with respect to bets made on or after that date, section 1 of the 1981 Act (charge to, and rates of, duty) shall be amended as follows—
(a)in subsection (1) after the words “on any bet” there shall be inserted “ which is not an on-course bet and ”; and
(b)in subsection (2) the words from the beginning of paragraph (a) to “bet” in paragraph (b) shall be omitted.
(2)With respect to bets made on or after 29th March 1987 but before the betting commencement date within the meaning of section 6 of the M6Finance Act 1986, Part III of the M7Miscellaneous Transferred Excise Duties Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 (in this section referred to as “the 1972 Act”) (which made separate provision for Northern Ireland corresponding to that made by the 1981 Act and which ceased to have effect on the betting commencement date except in relation to bets made before that date) shall be deemed to have been amended as follows—
(a)in section 16(1) (charge of duty) after the words “on any bet” there shall be inserted “ which is not an on-course bet and ”; and
(b)in section 17 (rates of duty) in subsection (1) paragraph (a) and, in paragraph (b), the words from the beginning to “bet” shall be omitted.
(3)In Schedule 1 to the 1981 Act (supplementary provisions)—
(a)in paragraph 1 (definitions) at the end of the definition of “general betting business” there shall be added the words “ or would or might involve such sums becoming so payable if on-course bets were not excluded from that duty ”; and
(b)in paragraph 2 (power to make regulations for administration of general betting duty) in sub-paragraph (4)(a) after the words “liable for duty” there shall be inserted “ or would be or might be or become liable for duty if on-course bets were not excluded from duty ”.
(4)The amendments made by subsection (3) above shall be deemed to have come into force on 29th March 1987.
(5)During the period beginning with 29th March 1987 and ending with the betting commencement date within the meaning of section 6 of the Finance Act 1986, in Schedule 2 to the 1972 Act (supplementary provisions) the references to a business which involves, or may involve, general betting duty becoming payable by any person and the references to any activity by reason of which a person is or may be or become liable for that duty shall be deemed to have included respectively references to a business which would or might involve that duty becoming payable, and to an activity by reason of which a person would be or might be or become liable for that duty, if on-course bets were not excluded from that duty.
With respect to licences for any period beginning on or after 1st June 1987, for the Tables set out in section 23(1) of the M8Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981 there shall be substituted the following Tables—
Description of machines authorised by the licence | Duty on whole-year licence |
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£ | |
Chargeable at the lower rate0Chargeable at the higher rate0 | 150 per machine375 per machine |
Description of machines authorised by the licence | Duty on whole-year licence |
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£ | |
Chargeable at the lower rate0Chargeable at the higher rate0 | 375 per machine960 per machine |
Marginal Citations
(1)With respect to licences for any period beginning on or after 1st October 1987, in the Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981 (in this section referred to as “the 1981 Act”) for subsection (3) of section 21 (which specifies the periods for which licences may be granted) there shall be substituted the following subsection—
“(3)A gaming machine licence may be a whole-year, a half-year or a quarter-year licence and shall be granted for a period of twelve, six or three months beginning with the first day of any month.”
(2)In subsection (3) of section 26 of the 1981 Act (which provides that if one or more gaming machines are made available on any premises in such a way that they can be played, any gaming machine anywhere on the premises shall be treated as provided for gaming) after the word “and” there shall be inserted “subject to subsection (3A) below”.
(3)After subsection (3) of the said section 26 there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(3A)The Commissioners may by regulations make provision for the purpose of enabling spare gaming machines to be kept on premises for use in the case of the breakdown of other gaming machines on those premises; and such regulations may provide that, in such circumstances and subject to such conditions as may be specified in the regulations, a gaming machine on any premises which is not made available as mentioned in subsection (3) above, or is not in a state in which it can be played, shall not be treated by virtue of that subsection as provided for gaming on those premises.”
(4)With effect from 1st October 1987, in Schedule 4 to the 1981 Act at the beginning of paragraph 4 (months preceding and following licences for summer months) there shall be inserted the words “Subject to subparagraph (2) below” and at the end of that paragraph there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—
“(2)Sub-paragraph (1) above shall not apply in relation to the provision of a machine on any premises—
(a)during March of any year, if any person has become entitled to a repayment of duty under paragraph 11 below on the surrender of a licence in respect of those premises or any machine on those premises during the preceding February,
(b)during October of any year, if any person has become entitled to such a repayment on the surrender of such a licence during the preceding March, June or September.”
(5)With respect to the surrender of licences on or after 1st October 1987, in Schedule 4 to the 1981 Act, in sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 11 (surrender of licences) for the words from “be entitled” onwards there shall be substituted “be entitled to a repayment of duty, in respect of each complete month in the unexpired period of the licence, of an amount equal—
(a)in the case of a whole-year licence, to one-twelfth of the duty paid on the grant of the licence, and
(b)in the case of a half-year licence, to one-twelfth of the duty that would have been payable on the grant of the licence if it had been a whole-year licence.”
Textual Amendments
F4S. 6 repealed (1.1.1992) by S.I. 1991/2724, reg. 9
(1)In section 27 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (officers’ power of boarding) in subsection (1) for the words from “a vehicle” to “any officer” there shall be substituted “a vehicle is—
(a)entering, leaving or about to leave the United Kingdom,
(b)within the prescribed area,
(c)within the limits of or entering or leaving a port or any land adjacent to a port and occupied wholly or mainly for the purpose of activities carried on at the port,
(d)at, entering or leaving an aerodrome,
(e)at, entering or leaving an approved wharf, transit shed, customs warehouse or free zone, or
(f)at, entering or leaving any such premises as are mentioned in subsection (1) of section 112 below,
any officer ”.
(2)In section 28 of that Act (officers’ powers of access, etc.) in subsection (1) after the words “any vehicle” there shall be inserted “ which falls within paragraphs (a) to (f) of subsection (1) of section 27 above or is ”.
(1)In section 58A of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (local export control) at the end of subsection (1) there shall be inserted “ and, subject to and to such modifications as may be specified in the directions, this section and section 58D below shall apply in relation to goods which, for the purposes of any Community regulation relating to export refunds or monetary compensatory amounts, are treated as exports as if the supply of the goods were their exportation or, as the case may require, their shipping for exportation ”.
(2)In subsection (3)(b) of that section (conditions for the application of local export control) after the word “shipped” there shall be inserted “ for exportation or exported by land ”.
(3)After subsection (7) of that section (power of Commissioners to relax requirements) there shall be inserted—
“(7A)Without prejudice to the powers of the Commissioners under subsection (7) above, they may direct that, in relation to goods of a description specified in the directions which are shipped for exportation or exported by land by an exporter of a description so specified, paragraph (a) of subsection (3) above shall have effect as if—
(a)in sub-paragraph (i) the words “time and” were omitted; and
(b)for sub-paragraph (ii) there were substituted—
(ii)at the time that notice is delivered or immediately thereafter, the exporter enters such paarticulars of the goods and of such other matters as may be required by the directions in a record maintained by him at such place as the proper officer may require; and
(iii)the proper officer informs the exporter that he consents to the removal of the goods; and”
(4)In section 58D of that Act (operative date for Community purposes) in subsection (2) (b) for the words following “above” there shall be substituted “ as set out in section 58A(7A)(b) above, the day entry is made ”.
After section 75 of the M9Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 there shall be inserted the following—
(1)Every person who is concerned (in whatever capacity) in the importation or exportation of goods of which an entry or specification is required for that purpose by or under this Act shall keep such records as the Commissioners may require.
(2)The Commissioners may require any records kept in pursuance of this section to be preserved for such period not exceeding four years as they may require.
(3)The duty under this section to preserve records may be discharged by the preservation of the information contained therein by such means as the Commissioners may approve; and where that information is so preserved a copy of any document forming part of the records shall, subject to the following provisions of this section, be admissible in evidence in any proceedings, whether civil or criminal, to the same extent as the records themselves.
(4)The Commissioners may, as a condition of an approval under subsection (3) above of any means of preserving information, impose such reasonable requirements as appear to them necessary for securing that the information will be as readily available to them as if the records themselves had been preserved.
(5)The Commissioners may at any time for reasonable cause revoke or vary the conditions of any approval given under subsection (3) above.
(6)A statement contained in a document produced by a computer shall not by virtue of subsection (3) above be admissible in evidence—
(a)in civil proceedings in England and Wales, except in accordance with sections 5 and 6 of the Civil Evidence Act 1968;
(b)in criminal proceedings in England and Wales, except in accordance with sections 68 to 70 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984;
(c)in civil proceedings in Northern Ireland, except in accordance with sections 2 and 3 of the Civil Evidence Act (Northern Ireland) 1971; and
(d)in criminal proceedings in Northern Ireland, except in accordance with the said sections 2 and 3, which shall, for the purposes of this section, apply with the necessary modifications to such proceedings.”
In section 77 of the M10Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (information in relation to goods imported, exported or shipped for carriage coastwise) in subsection (1)(a) the words “importation, exportation or” shall be omitted, and after that section there shall be inserted the following section—
(1)Every person who is concerned (in whatever capacity) in the importation or exportation of goods for which an entry or specification is required for that purpose by or under this Act shall—
(a)furnish to the Commissioners, within such time and in such form as they may reasonably require, such information relating to the goods or to the importation or exportation as the Commissioners may reasonably specify; and
(b)if so required by an officer, produce or cause to be produced for inspection by the officer—
(i)at the principal place of business of the person upon whom the demand is made or at such other place as the officer may reasonably require, and
(ii)at such time as the officer may reasonably require,
any documents relating to the goods or to the importation or exportation.
(2)Where, by virtue of subsection (1) above, an officer has power to require the production of any documents from any such person as is referred to in that subsection, he shall have the like power to require production of the documents concerned from any other person who appears to the officer to be in possession of them; but where any such other person claims a lien on any document produced by him, the production shall be without prejudice to the lien.
(3)An officer may take copies of, or make extracts from, any document produced under subsection (1) or subsection (2) above.
(4)If it appears to him to be necessary to do so, an officer may, at a reasonable time and for a reasonable period, remove any document produced under subsection (1) or subsection (2) above and shall, on request, provide a receipt for any document so removed; and where a lien is claimed on a document produced under subsection (2) above, the removal of the document under this subsection shall not be regarded as breaking lien.
(5)Where a document removed by an officer under subsection (4) above is reasonably required for the proper conduct of a business, the officer shall, as soon as practicable, provide a copy of the document, free of charge, to the person by whom it was produced or caused to be produced.
(6)Where any documents removed under the powers conferred by this section are lost or damaged, the Commissioners shall be liable to compensate their owner for any expenses reasonably incurred by him in replacing or repairing the documents.
(7)If any person fails to comply with a requirement under this section, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of level 3 on the standard scale.”
(1)At the end of section 14(1) of the principal Act (which provides for tax to be accounted for and paid in accordance with regulations) there shall be added the words “, and regulations may make different provision for different circumstances”.
(2)In Schedule 7 to that Act (administration, collection and enforcement) after sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 2 there shall be inserted—
“(3A)Regulations under this paragraph may make provision whereby, in such cases and subject to such conditions as may be determined by or under the regulations, tax in respect of a supply may be accounted for and paid by reference to the time when consideration for the supply is received; and any such regulations may make such modifications of the provisions of this Act (including in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the power, the provisions as to the time when, and the circumstances in which, credit for input tax is to be allowed) as appear to the Commissioners necessary or expedient.”.
(1) In section 15 of the principal Act, for subsections (1) to (3) there shall be substituted—
“(1)The amount of input tax for which a taxable person is entitled to credit at the end of any period shall be so much of the input tax for the period (that is input tax on supplies and importatinos in the period) as is allowable by or under regulations as being attributable to supplies within subsection (2) below.
(2)The supplies within this subsection are the following supplies made or to be made by the taxable person in the course or futherance of his business—
(a)taxable supplies;
(b)supplies outside the United Kingdom which would be taxable supplies if made in the United Kingdom;
(c)supplies which section 35 below provides are to be disregarded for the purposes of this Act and which would otherwise be taxable supplies.
(3)The Commissioners shall make regulations for securing a fair and reasonable attribution of input tax to supplies within subsection (2) above, and any such regulations may provide for—
(a)determining a proportion by reference to which input tax for any prescribed accounting period is to be provisionally attributed to those supplies;
(b)adjusting, in accordance with a proportion determined in like manner for any longer period comprising two or more prescribed accounting periods or parts thereof, the provisional attribution for any of those periods; and
(c)the making of payments in respect of input tax, by the Commissioners to a taxable person (or a person who has been a taxable person) or by a taxable person (or a person who has been a taxable person) to the Commissioners, in cases where events prove inaccurate an estimate on the basis of which an attribution was made.”.
(2)In section 6(1) of that Act, for the words “the charge to tax” there shall be substituted the words “this Act”.
F5(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4)This section shall have effect in relation to supplies and importations made on or after 1st April 1987, and shall be deemed to have come into force on 23rd March 1987.
Textual Amendments
F5S. 12(3) repealed (1.1.1993) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 (c. 48), ss. 14(3), 82, Sch. 18 Pt.V; S.I. 1992/3261, art.3, Sch.
(1)The principal Act shall be amended as follows.
F6(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F6(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F7
(5)In Schedule 5, item 2 of and Note (1) to Group 15 shall cease to have effect.
Textual Amendments
F6S. 13(2)(3) repealed (1.1.1993) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 (c. 48), ss. 14(3), 82, Sch. 18 Pt.V; S.I. 1992/3261, art.3, Sch.
F7S. 13(4) repealed by Finance Act 1988 (c. 39, SIF 40:2), s. 148, Sch. 14 Pt. III
(1) Schedule 1 to the principal Act shall be amended as follows.
(2)For paragraph 1 there shall be substituted—
“1(1)Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) to (5) below, a person who makes taxable supplies but is not registered is liable to be registered—
(a)after the end of any quarter, if the value of his taxable supplies—
(i)in that quarter has exceeded £7,250; or
(ii)in the four quarters then ending has exceeded £21,300; or
(b)at any time, if there are reasonable grounds for believing that the value of his taxable supplies in the period of one year then beginning will exceed £21,300.
(2)A person is not liable to be registered by virtue of sub-paragraph (1)(a)(i) above after the end of any quarter if the Commissioners are satisfied that the value of his taxable supplies in that quarter and the next three quarters will not exceed £21,300.
(3)A person is not liable to be registered by virtue of sub-paragraph (1)(a)(ii) above after the end of any quarter if the Commissioners are satisfied that the value of his taxable supplies in the next four quarters will not exceed £20,300.
(4)In determining the value of a person’s supplies for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(a) above, supplies made at a time when he was previously registered shall be disregarded if—
(a)his registration was cancelled otherwise than under paragraph 10 below, and
(b)the Commissioners are satisfied that before his registration was cancelled he had given them all the information they needed in order to determine whether to cancel the registration.
(5)In determining the value of a person’s supplies for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) above, supplies of goods that are capital assets of the business in the course of furtherance of which they are supplied shall be disregarded.”.
(3)For paragraph 2 there shall be substituted—
“2(1)Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, a registered person who makes taxable supplies shall cease to be liable to be registered at any time if the Commissioners are satisfied that the value of his taxable supplies in the period of one year then beginning will not exceed £20,300.
(2)A person shall not cease to be liable to be registered by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) above if the Commissioners are satisfied that the reason the value of his taxable supplies will not exceed £20,300 is that in the period in question he will cease making taxable supplies, or will suspend making them for a period of thirty days or more.
(3)In determining the value of a person’s supplies for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) above, supplies of goods that are capital assets of the business in the course or furtherance of which they are supplied shall be desregarded.”.
(4)(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F8
(6)Paragraph 6 shall cease to have effect.
(7)–(9). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F9
(10)For paragraph 13 there shall be substituted—
“13The value of a supply of goods or services shall be determined for the purposes of this Schedule on the basis that no tax is chargeable on the supply.”.
Textual Amendments
F8S. 14(4)(5) repealed by Finance Act 1990 (c. 29, SIF 40:2), s. 132, Sch. 19 Pt. III Note 3
(1)In the principal Act, after section 29 there shall be inserted—
(1)Subject to subsections (2) and (3) below, subsection (4) below applies where—
(a)a business, or part of a business, carried on by a taxable person is transferred as a going concern to a body corporate treated as a member of a group under section 29 above;
(b)on the transfer of the business or part, chargeable assets of the business are transferred to the body corporate; and
(c)the transfer of the assets is treated by virtue of section 3(3)(c) above as neither a supply of goods nor a supply of services.
(2)Subsection (4) below shall not apply if the representative member of the group is entitled to credit for the whole of the input tax on supplies to it and importations by it—
(a)during the prescribed accounting period in which the assets are transferred, and
(b)during any longer period to which regulations under section 15(3)(b) above relate and in which the assets are transferred.
(3)Subsection (4) below shall not apply if the Commissioners are satisfied that the assets were acquired by the taxable person transferring them more than three years before the day on which they are transferred.
(4)The chargeable assets shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as being, on the day on which they are transferred, both supplied to the representative member of the group for the purpose of its business and supplied by that member in the course or furtherance of its business.
(5)A supply treated under subsection (4) above as made by a representative member shall not be taken into account as a supply made by him when determining the allowance of input tax in his case under section 15 above.
(6)The value of a supply treated under subsection (4) above as made to or by a representative member shall be taken to be the open market value of the chargeable assets.
(7)For the purposes of this section, the open market value of any chargeable assets shall be taken to be the price that would be paid on a sale (on which no tax is payable) between a buyer and a seller who are not in such a relationship as to affect the price.
(8)The Commissioners may reduce the tax chargeable by virtue of subsection (4) above in a case where they are satisfied that the person by whom the chargeable assets are transferred has not received credit for the full amount of input tax arising on the acquisition by him of the chargeable assets.
(9)For the purposes of this section, assets are chargeable assets if their supply in the United Kingdom by a taxable person in the course or furtherance of his business would be a taxable supply (and not a zero-rated supply).”.
(2)This section shall have effect in relation to transfers of assets made on or after 1st April 1987, and shall be deemed to have come into force on 23rd March 1987.
(1)After section 37 of the principal Act there shall be added—
(1)The Treasury may by order modify the application of the Act in relation to supplies of goods or services by tour operators or in relation to such of those supplies as may be determined by or under the order.
(2)Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) above, an order under this section may make provision—
(a)for two or more supplies of goods or services by a tour operator to be treated as a single supply of services;
(b)for the value of that supply to be ascertained, in such manner as may be determined by or under the order by reference to the difference between sums paid or payable to and sums paid or payable by the tour operator;
(c)for account to be taken, in determining the tax chargeable on that supply, of the different rates of tax that would have been applicable apart from this section;
(d)excluding any body corporate from the application of section 29 above;
(e)as to the time when a supply is to be treated as taking place.
(3)In this section “tour operator” includes a travel agent acting as principal and any other person providing for the benefit of travellers services of any kind commonly provided by tour operators or travel agents.
(4)Section 45(3) below shall not apply to an order under this section, notwithstanding that it makes provision for excluding any tax from credit under section 14 above.”.
(2)In section 45 of that Act, at the beginning of subsection (4) there shall be inserted the words “Subject to section 37A(4) above”.
(1)In Schedule 4 to the principal Act, at the beginning of paragraph 1(1)(c) there shall be inserted the words “if the supply is a taxable supply.”.
(2)This section shall have effect in relation to supplies made on or after 1st April 1987, and shall be deemed to have come into force on 23rd March 1987.
(1)In Schedule 6 to the principal Act (exemptions), in Group 5 (finance)—
(a)at the end of item 5 there shall be added the words “or the underwriting of an issue within item 1”; and
(b)after item 6 there shall be inserted the following item—
The making of arrangements for, or the underwriting of, an issue within item 6.”.
(2)This section shall have effect in relation to supplies made on or after 1st April 1987, and shall be deemed to have come into force on 23rd March 1987.
(1)In this Chapter “the principal Act” means the M11Value Added Tax Act 1983.
(2)The principal Act shall have effect subject to the further amendments in Schedule 2 to this Act; and the amendment in that Schedule of section 7 of the principal Act shall have effect with respect to services supplied on or after 1st April 1987.
Marginal Citations
Textual Amendments
Textual Amendments
F11S. 40 repealed (6.3.1992 with effect as mentioned in s. 289(1)(2) of the repealing Act) by Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), ss. 289, 290, Sch.12 (with Sch. 11 paras. 22, 26(2), 27)
Textual Amendments
Textual Amendments
F13S. 47 repealed by Finance Act 1988 (c. 39), s. 148, Sch. 14 Pt. VII Note 2
—In section of the M12Finance Act 1946 and in section 28 of the M13Finance (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 1946—
(a)for the definition in subsection (1) of “unit trust scheme” there shall be substituted—
““unit trust scheme” has the same meaning as in the Financial Services Act 1986 (but subject to subsection (1A) of this section)”;
(b)in the definition in subsection (1) of “trust instrument”, for the words from “by virtue” to “aforesaid” there shall be substituted the words “ on which the property in question is held ”;
(c)after subsection (1) there shall be inserted—
“(1A)The Treasury may by regulations provide that any scheme of a description specified in the regulations shall be treated as not being a unit trust scheme for the purposes of this Part of this Act.
(1B)Regulations under this section—
(a)may contain such supplementary and transitional provisions as appear to the Treasury to be necessary or expedient, and
(b)shall be made by statutory instrument, which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Commons.”.
(1)Sections 77 to 79 of the M14Finance (1909–10) Act 1910, so far as unrepealed, shall cease to have effect.
(2)Subsection (1) above shall come into force on such day as the Treasury may appoint by order made by statutory instrument.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Power of appointment conferred by s. 49(2) fully exercised: 29.4.1988 appointed by S.I. 1988/780
Marginal Citations
(1)Where an interest in, a right to an allotment of or to subscribe for, or an option to acquire [F14 or to dispose of], exempt securities is transferred to or vested in any person by any instrument, no stamp duty shall be chargeable on the instrument by virtue of either of the following headings in Schedule 1 to the Stamp Act 1891 F15 —
(a)“Conveyance or Transfer on Sale”;
(b)“Conveyance or Transfer of any kind not hereinbefore described”.
(2)No stamp duty under the heading “Bearer Instrument” in Schedule 1 to the Stamp Act 1891 shall be chargeable —
(a)on the issue of an instrument which relates to such an interest, right or option as is mentioned in subsection (1) above, or
(b)on the transfer of the interest, right or option constituted by, or transferable by means of, such an instrument.
(3)For the purposes of this section, “exempt securities” means —
(a)securities the transfer of which is exempt from all stamp duties,
(b)securities constituted by or transferable by means of an instrument the issue of which is by virtue of section 30 of the Finance Act 1967 F16 or section 7 of the Finance Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 F17[F18 or section 79(2) of the Finance Act 1986] exempt from stamp duty under the heading “Bearer Instrument” in Schedule 1 to the Stamp Act 1891 F19, or
(c)securities the transfer of which is exempt by virtue of section 30 of the Finance Act 1967 or section 7 of the Finance Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 [F20 or section 79(2) of the Finance Act 1986] from stamp duty under that heading;
and “securities” means stock or marketable securities and includes loan capital as defined in section 78(7) of the Finance Act 1986 F21.
(4)Subsection (1) above applies to any instrument executed on or after 1st August 1987.
(5)Subsection (2) above applies —
(a)to any instrument which falls within section 60(1) of the Finance Act 1963, or section 9(1 )(a) of the Finance Act (Northern Ireland) 1963, and is issued on or after 1st August 1987, and
(b)to any instrument which falls within section 60(2) of the Finance Act 1963 F22, or section 9(1 )(b) of the Finance Act (Northern Ireland) 1963 F23, if the interest, right or option constituted by or transferable by means of it is transferred on or after 1st August 1987.
Textual Amendments
F14S. 50(1) words inserted by 1987 c. 51 s. 99(1)
F18S. 50(3) words inserted by 1987 c. 51 s. 99(2)
F20S. 50 (3) words inserted by 1987 c. 51 s. 99(2)
(1)With respect to the issue of instruments and the transfer of stock on or after the day on which this Act is passed, section 30 of the Finance Act 1967 (stamp duty exemption for bearer instruments relating to stock in foreign currencies) and section 7 of the Finance Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 (the equivalent provision for Northern Ireland) shall have effect subject to the amendments in subsections (2) to (4) below.
(2)In subsection (1) for the words “in the currency of a territory outside the scheduled territories” there shall be substituted “in any currency other than sterling or in any units of account defined by reference to more than one currency (whether or not including sterling) ”.
(3)In subsection (2) for the words from “between” to “other currencies” there shall be substituted “between sterling and one or more other currencies”.
(4)Subsection (4) and, in subsection (5), the definition of “the scheduled territories” shall cease to have effect.
(1)In section 70(6) of the Finance Act 1986 (transfer of securities to clearance system), for the word “relevant” (in each place where it occurs) there shall be substituted the words “shares, stock or other marketable”.
(2)The amendments made by this section have effect in relation to instruments executed on or after 1st August 1987.
In section 82(6)of the Finance Act 1986 F24, for the words “subsection (3)” there shall be substituted the words “subsection (4)”.
Textual Amendments
(1)In section 97 of the M15Finance Act 1980 (which provides for certain leases to be stamped as conveyances) in subsection (3)(b)—
(a)for the words “registered under” there shall be substituted the words “ within the meaning of ”, and
(b)for the words “Article 124” there shall be substituted the words “ Part VII ”.
(2)Section 97 of the Finance Act 1980 and section 108(5) and (6) of the M16Finance Act 1981 shall apply to a lease within subsection (3) below as they apply to a lease granted by a body mentioned in section 97(3) of the Finance Act 1980.
(3)A lease is within this subsection if it is granted—
(a)by a person against whom the right to buy under Part V of the M17Housing Act 1985 is exercisable by virtue of section 171A of that Act (preservation of right to buy on disposal to private sector landlord), and
(b)to a person who is the qualifying person for the purposes of the preserved right to buy and in relation to whom that dwelling-house is the qualifying dwelling-house.(4) This section applies to leases granted on or after 1st August 1987.
(1)Where any conveyance, transfer or lease is made or agreed to be made to a Minister of the Crown or to the Solicitor for the affairs of Her Majesty’s Treasury, no stamp duty shall be chargeable by virtue of any of the following headings in Schedule 1 to the M18Stamp Act 1891—
(a)“Conveyance or Transfer on Sale”,
(b)“Conveyance or Transfer of any kind not hereinbefore described”,
(c)“Lease or Tack”,
on the instrument by which the conveyance, transfer or lease, or the agreement for it, is effected.
(2)In this section “Minister of the Crown” has the same meaning as in the Ministers of the M19Crown Act 1975.
(3)Article 3(6) of the Secretary of State for the M20Environment Order 1970 and Article 4(5) of the M21Secretary of State for Transport Order 1976 (which excempt transfers by, to or with those Ministers) shall cease to have effect.
(4)This section applies to instruments executed on or after 1st August 1987.
Schedule 7 to this Act (which contains miscellaneous amendments of Part IV of the Finance Act 1986 F25) shall have effect.
Textual Amendments
(1)In the M22Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (in this Part of this Act referred to as “the 1984 Act”) section 8(1) (indexation of rate bands) shall not apply to chargeable transfers made in the year beginning 6th April 1987.
(2)For the Table in Schedule 1 to that Act there shall be substituted the Table set out below:
Portion of value | Rate of tax | |
---|---|---|
Lower limit | Upper limit | Per cent |
£ | £ | |
Lower Limit £ | Upper Limit £ | Per cent. |
0 | 90,000 | Nil |
90,000 | 140,000 | 30 |
140,000 | 220,000 | 40 |
220,000 | 330,000 | 50 |
330,000 | 60” |
(3)Subsection (2) above applies to any chargeable transfer (within the meaning of the 1984 Act) made on or after 17th March 1987.
Marginal Citations
(1)The 1984 Act and Schedule 20 to the Finance Act 1986 (gifts with reservation) shall have effect subject to the amendments in Schedule 8 to this Act, being amendments—
(a)making provisions with respect to the treatment for the purposes of the 1984 Act of shares and securities dealt in on the Unlisted Securities Market;
(b)making other amendments of Chapter I of Part V of the 1984 Act (business property);
(c)making provision with respect to the application to certain transfers of relief under that Chapter and under Chapter II of that Part (agricultural property); and
(d)making provision with respect to the payment of tax by instalments.
(2)Subject to subsection (3) below, Schedule 8 to this Act shall have effect in relation to transfers of value made, and other events occurring, on or after 17th March 1987.
(3)The amendments of the 1984 Act made by Schedule 8 to this Act shall be disregarded in determining under section 113A(3) or section 113B(3) of the 1984 Act whether any property acquired by the transferee before 17th March 1987 would be relevant business property in relation to a notional transfer of value made on or after that date.
Schedule 9 to this Act shall have effect.
(1)In section 233 of the 1984 Act (interest on unpaid tax) in subsection (1), at the beginning of the words following paragraph (c) there shall be inserted the words “ then, subject to subsection (1A) below ”.
(2)After subsection (1) of that section there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(1A)If, under section 230 above, the Board agree to accept property in satisfaction of any tax on terms that the value to be attributed to the property for the purposes of that acceptance is determined as at a date earlier than that on which the property is actually accepted, the terms may provide that the amount of tax which is satisfied by the acceptance of the property shall not carry interest under this section from that date.”
(3)This section applies in any case where the acceptance referred to in section 230 of the 1984 Act occurs on or after 17th March 1987.
(1)The provisions of Schedule 10 to this Act shall have effect, being provisions for and in connection with the establishment of a scheme of nominations by participators in oil fields of certain proposed sales, supplies and appropriations of oil.
(2)Nothing in this section or Schedule 10 to this Act applies—
(a)to oil which is gaseous at a temperature of 15 degrees centigrade and pressure of one atmosphere; or
(b)to oil of a kind which is normally disposed of crude by deliveries in quantities of 25,000 metric tonnes or less; or
(c)to oil which is excluded from this section by regulations under subsection (8) below;
and references to oil in this section and Schedule 10 to this Act shall be construed accordingly.
(3)As respects each participator in an oil field, it shall be determined, for each calendar month in a chargeable period beginning with the month of March 1987, whether his aggregate nominated proceeds, as defined in Schedule 10 to this Act, exceed the proceeds of his disposals and appropriations in that month, as defined in subsection (6) below and, if they do, that excess shall be brought into account in accordance with subsection (5) below.
(4)For each chargeable period of an oil field, “the excess of nominated proceeds for the period”, in relation to a participator in that field, means the sum of the excess (if any) of each of the months in that chargeable period, as determined in his case under subsection (3) above.
(5)In subsection (5) of section 2 of the principal Act (amounts to be taken into account in determining whether a gross profit or loss accures to a participator in any chargeable period) at the end of paragraph (d) there shall be added “and”
(e)the excess of the nominated proceeds for that period, as defined in section 61 of the Finance Act 1987.”
(6)In relation to any calendar month, the proceeds of a participator’s disposals and appropriations from an oil field means the total of—
(a)the price received or receivable for so much of any oil forming part of his equity production from the field in that month as was disposed of by him crude in sales at arm’s length; and
(b)the market value, ascertained in accordance with Schedule 3 to the principal Act, of the rest of his equity production from the field in that month;
and in this subsection any reference to a participator’s equity production from an oil field in any month shall be construed in accordance with paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 10 of this Act.
(7)The Treasury may by regulations made by statutory instrument make provision for any purpose for which regulations described as “Treasury regulations” may be made under Schedule 10 to this Act.
(8)The Board may by regulations made by statutory instrument make provision, including provision having effect with respect to things done on or after 9th February 1987,—
(a)as to oil which is excluded from this section, as mentioned in subsection (2) above; and
(b)for any purpose for which regulations, other than those described as “Treasury regulations”, may be made under Schedule 10 to this Act;
and regulations made by virtue of paragraph (a) above may amend paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (2) above.
(9)A statutory instrument made in the exercise of the power conferred by subsection (7) of subsection (8) above shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the Commons House of Parliament.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2Part of the text of s. 61(5) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991
C3For regulations see Part III (under “Petroleum Revenue Tax: nomination scheme for disposals and appropriations”)
(1)In the following provisions of the principal Act (which refer to the market value of oil at the material time in a particular calendar month) the words “at the material time” shall be omitted—
(a)in section 2 (assessable profits and allowable losses), in subsection (9), paragraphs (a)(i) and (a)(ii);
(b)in section 5A (allowance of exploration and appraisal expenditure), subsection (5B);
(c)in section 14 (valuation of oil disposed of or appropriated in certain circumstances), subsections (4) and (4A)(b); and
(d)in paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 (returns by participators), sub-paragraphs (2)(a)(iii) and (2)(b)(ii).
(2)In the following provisions of the principal Act (which refer to the market value of stocks of oil at the end of a chargeable period) for the words “at the end” there shall be substituted “in the last calendar month”—
(a)section 2(4)(b);
(b)section 2(5)(d); and
(c)in Schedule 2, paragraph 2(2)(d)(ii);
and in the provisions specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) above for the word “then” there shall be substituted “at the end of that period”.
(3)In Schedule 3 to the principal Act (miscellaneous provisions relating to petroleum revenue tax) paragraphs 2, 2A and 3 (market value of oil) shall be amended in accordance with Part I of Schedule 11 to this Act; and the consequential amendments of the principal Act in Part II of that Schedule shall have effect.
(4)A participator in an oil field who is required by paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the principal Act to deliver to the Board a return for a chargeable period shall, not later than the end of the second month after the end of that period, deliver to the Board an additional return of all relevant sales of oil (as defined in subsection (6) below) stating—
(a)the date of the contract of sale;
(b)the name of the seller;
(c)the name of the buyer;
(d)the quantity od oil actually sold and, if it is different, the quantity of oil contracted to be sold;
(e)the price receivable for that oil;
(f)the date which, under the contract, was the date or, as the case may be, the latest date for delivery of the oil and the date on which the oil was actually delivered; and
(g)such other particulars as the Board may prescribe.
(5)Where two or more companies which are participators in the same oil field are members of the same group of companies, within the meaning of section [F26413] of the Taxes Act, a return made for the purposes of subsection (4) above by one of them and expressed also to be made on behalf of the other or others shall be treated for the purposes of this section as a return made by each of them.
(6)For the purposes of the return required by subsection (4) above from a participator in an oil field, a relevant sale of oil is a contract for the sale of oil [F27at arm’s length] to which the participator or any company which is resident in the United Kingdom and associated with the participator for the purposes of section 115(2) of the M23Finance Act 1984 is a party (as seller, buyer or otherwise), being a sale of oil—
(a)for delivery at anyu time during the chargeable period referred to in subsection (4) above; and
(b)details of which are not included in the return made for the period under paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the principal Act (by virtue of sub-paragraph (3A) thereof) [F27or otherwise]); and
(c)which is for the delivery of at least 500 metric tonnes of oil; and
(d)which is not a contract for the sale of oil consisting of gas of which the largest component by volume over the chargeable period concerned is methane or ethane or a combination of those gases.
(7)A return under subsection (4) above shall be in such form as the Board may prescribe and shall include a declaration that the return is correct and complete; and if a participator fails to deliver a return under that subsection he shall be liable—
(a)to a penalty not exceeding £500; and
(b)if the failure continues after it has been declared by the court or the Commissioners before whom proceedings for the penalty have been commenced, to a further penalty not exceeding £100 for each day on which the failure so continues;
except that a participator shall not be liable to a penalty under this subsection if the failure is remedied before proceedings for the recovery of the penalty are commenced.
(8)Where a participator fraudulently or negligently delivers an incorrect return under subsection (4) above, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £2,500 or, in the case of fraud, £5,000.
(9)This section has effect with respect to chargeable periods ending after 31st December 1986.
Textual Amendments
F27Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 (c. 51, SIF 63:1), s. 101(2)(5) for chargeable periods ending after 1 January 1987
Marginal Citations
(1)If, at any time prior to its disposal or relevant appropriation, oil won from an oil field is mixed with oil won from another oil field, the provisions of this section shall have effect to determine what is the share of a participator in one of those fields of the oil won from that field in any chargeable period ending after 1st January 1987; [F28and in the following provisions of this section—
(a)“blended oil” means oil which has been so mixed; and
(b)“the originating fields” means the oil fields from which the blended oil is derived].
[F29(1A)In this section—
(a)“oil field” includes an area which is a foreign field for the purposes of section 12 of the Oil Taxation Act 1983;
(b)“oil” includes any substance which would be oil if the enactments mentioned in section 1(1) of the principal Act extended to such an area as is referred to in paragraph (a) above;
(c)“blended oil” means oil which has been mixed as mentioned in subsection (1) above; and
(d)“the originating fields”, in relation to any blended oil, means the oil fields from which the blended oil is derived.]
(2)If, for the purposes of commerce, blended oil is allocated to the participators in the originating fields in accordance with an agreed method, then, subject to the following provisions of this section, for the purposes of the oil taxation legislation, the blended oil which, in accordance with that method, is allocated to a participator in one of the originating fields in respect of any chargeable period shall be taken to be that participator’s share of the oil won from that field in that period.
(3)With respect to any blended oil, each of the participators in the originating fields (either jointly or individually) shall, not later than 1st August 1987 or, if it is later, not later than thirty days after the date on which the first allocation is made in accordance with a particular method falling within subsection (2) above, furnish to the Board for the purposes of this section such details as may be prescribed with respect to that method and to the blended oil concerned; and if any participator fails to comply with this subsection he shall be liable—
(a)to a penalty not exceeding £500; and
(b)if the failure continues after it has been declared by the court or the Commissioners before whom proceedings for the penalty have been commenced, to a further penalty not exceeding £100 for each day on which the failure so continues;
except that a participator shall not be liable to a penalty under this subsection if the failure is remedied before proceedings for the recovery of the penalty are commenced.
(4)Where a participator in an oil field fraudulently or negligently furnishes any incorrect details for the purposes of this section, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £2,500 or, in the case of fraud, £5,000.
(5)If, at any time after details with respect to a method of allocation have been furnished to the Board in accordance with subsection (3) above,—
(a)that method is in any respect changed, or
(b)there is a material change of any kind in the quantity or quality of any of the oil which makes up the blended oil,
any allocation made after that change shall be taken to be made in accordance with a new method of allocation.
(6)The provisions of Schedule 12 to this Act shall have effect for supplementing this section.
(7)In this section—
(a)“the oil taxation legislation” means Part I of the principal Act and any enactment construed as one with that Part; and
(b)“prescribed” means prescribed by the Board, whether before or after the passing of this Act.
Textual Amendments
F28Words repealed by Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 (c. 51, SIF 63:1), ss. 101(3)(5), 104(4) and Sch. 9 Part V for chargeable periods ending after 1 January 1987
F29Finance (No. 2) Act 1987 (c. 51, SIF 63:1), s. 101(3)(5) for chargeable periods ending after 1 January 1987
(1)The section set out in Part I of Schedule 13 to this Act shall be inserted in the principal Act after section 5A for the purpose of setting up a new allowance by virtue of which a participator in an oil field may obtain relief for certain research expenditure which is incurred otherwise than in connection with that field.
(2)For the purpose of giving effect to, and in consequence of, the new allowance, the enactments specified in Part II of Schedule 13 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments there specified.
(3)Part III of Schedule 13 to this Act shall have effect with respect to sums falling to be set off against expenditure which would otherwise be allowable under the new section set out in Part I of that Schedule.
(1)Where an election is made by a participator in an oil field (in this section referred to as “the receiving field”), up to 10 per cent. of certain expenditure incurred on or after 17th March 1987 in connection with another field, being a field which is for the purposes of this section a relevant new field, shall be allowable in accordance with this section in respect of the receiving field; and in the following provisions of this section the relevant new field in connection with which the expenditure was incurred is referred to as “the field of origin”.
(2)An election under this section may be made only in respect of expenditure which—
(a)was incurred by the participator making the election or, if that participator is a body corporate, by an associated company; and
(b)as regards the field of origin, is allowable under section 3 or section 4 of the principal Act or section 3 of the M24Oil Taxation Act 1983; and
(c)as regards the field of origin, has been allowed as qualifying for supplement under section 2(9)(b)(ii) or (c)(ii) of the principal Act (in the following provisions of this section referred to as “supplement”); and
(d)is not expenditure falling within subsection (1) of section 5A of the principal Act (allowance of exploration and appraisal expenditure);
and Part I of Schedule 14 to this Act shall have effect with respect to elections under this section.
(3)A participator may not make an election under this section in respect of expenditure which was incurred before the date which is his qualifying date, within the meaning of section 113 of the M25Finance Act 1984 (restriction of PRT reliefs), in relation to the receiving field unless that date falls before the end of the first chargeable period in relation to that field.
(4)Where, by virtue of an election by a participator under this section, an amount of expenditure is allowable in respect of the receiving field, it shall be allowable as follows—
(a)it shall be taken into account in that assessment to tax or determination relating to a chargeable period of the receiving field which is specified in Part II of Schedule 14 to this Act; and
(b)it shall be so taken into account under subsection (8) of section 2 of the principal Act (allowable expenditure etc.) as if, for the chargeable period in question, it were an addition to the sum mentioned in paragraph (a) of that subsection; and
(c)it shall be excluded in determining for the purposes of section 111(2) of the M26Finance Act 1981 (restriction of expenditure supplement) whether any, and if so what, assessable profit or allowable loss accrues to the participator in any chargeable period of the receiving field.
(5)Where, by virtue of an election by a participator under this section, an amount of expenditure is allowable in respect of the receiving field, that amount shall be disregarded in determining, as regards the field of origin, the amounts referred to (in relation to the participator or the associated company, as the case may be) in paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) of subsection (9) of section 2 of the principal Act (allowable expenditure and supplement thereon.
(6)In Schedule 14 to this Act—
(a)Part III has effect to determine for the purposes of this section what is a relevant new field and who is an associated company of a participator making an election;
(b)Part IV contains provisions supplemental to and consequential upon the allowance of expenditure by virtue of an election under this section, including provisions applicable where a notice of variation is served in respect of expenditure which is already the subject of such an election;
(c)“the receiving field” and “the field of origin” have the meaning assigned by subsection (1) above;
(d)“the principal section” means this section;
(e)“election” means an election under this section; and
(f)“supplement” has the meaning assigned by subsection (2)(c) above.
(1)For the purposes of this section—
(a)“the final allocation period”, in relation to an oil field, means the chargeable period of that field in which section 8(6)(b) of the principal Act applies (the earliest chargeable period in which oil allowance is subject to “the necessary restriction” in order to confine it within the overall maximum); and
(b)“the penultimate period”, in relation to an oil field, means the chargeable period of that field which immediately precedes the final allocation period;
and any reference in this section to the two final periods is a reference to the final allocation period and the penultimate period.
(2)The following provisions of this section apply if the responsible person gives notice to the Board (in this section referred to as an “apportionment notice”) specifying the manner in which the oil allowance for the field is to be apportioned between the participators in each of the two final periods, being a manner designed—
(a)to produce, so far as practicable, the result specified in subsection (4) below, being a result which, in the circumstances of the case, could not be achieved under section 8(6)(b) of the principal Act; and
(b)to secure that adjustments in a participator’s share of the oil allowance are made in the final allocation period in preference to the penultimate period.
(3)An apportionment notice shall be of no effect unless—
(a)it is given not later than six months after the expiry of the final allocation period; and
(b)not later than the date of the notice the responsible person notifies the Board in accordance with paragraph (b) of subsection (6) of section 8 of the principal Act of the manner in which the necessary restriction, as defined in that subsection, is to be apportioned between the participators; and
(c)it specifies a period for each of paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (4) below; and
(d)it contains such information as the Board may prescribe for the purpose of showing how, or to what extent, the apportionment of the oil allowance achieves the result specified in subsection (4) below.
(4)The result referred to in subsection (2) above is that the respective shares of the oil allowance utilised by each of two or more participators specified in the apportionment notice bear to each other the same proportion as their respective shares in oil won and saved from the field and, for this purpose—
(a)a participator’s share of the oil allowance means the total amount of the allowance utilised by him over the period specified for the purpose of this paragraph in the apportionment notice; and
(b)a participator’s share in oil won and saved from the field means the total of the oil included in his share of oil won and saved from the field (as specified in returns under Schedule 2 to the principal Act) over the period specified for the purposes of this paragraph in the apportionment notice, being a period which includes that specified for the purposes of paragraph (a) above.
(5)If the Board are satisfied that an apportionment notice complies with subsections (2) to (4) above, they shall give notice to the responsible person accepting the apportionment notice and, on the giving of that notice—
(a)the apportionment specified in the apportionment notice shall, as respects the two final periods, have effect as if it were the apportionment resulting from section 8(2) of the principal Act; and
(b)all such amendments of assessments to tax and determinations shall be made as may be necessary in consequence of paragraph (a) above.
(6)If the Board are not satisfied that an apportionment notice complies with subsections (2) to (4) above, they shall give notice to the responsible person rejecting the apportionment notice and, where the Board give such a notice, the responsible person may, by notice in writing given to the Board within thirty days after the date of the notice of rejection, appeal to the Special Commissioners against the notice.
(7)Where notice of appeal is given under subsection (6) abvove—
(a)if, at any time after the giving of the notice and before the determination of the appeal by the Commissioners, the Board and the appellant agree that the apportionment notice should be accepted or withdrawn or varied, the same consequences shall ensue as if the Commissioners had determined the appeal to that effect;
(b)if, on the hearing of the appeal, it appears to the majority of the Commissioners present at the hearing that the apportionment notice should be accepted, with or without modifications, they shall allow the appeal and, where appropriate, make such modifications of the apportionment specified in the notice as they think fit; and
(c)where the appeal is allowed, subsection (5) above shall apply as if the apportionment notice (subject to any modifications made by the Commissioners) had been accepted by the Board.
(8)Sub-paragraphs (2), (8) and (11) of paragraph 14 of Schedule 2 to the principal Act shall apply in relation to an appeal against a notice of rejection under subsection (6) above as they apply in relation to an appeal against an assessment or determination made under that Act, construing any reference in those provisions to the participator as a reference to the responsible person by whom notice of appeal is given.
(9)This section applies where the final allocation period ends on or after 30th June 1987.
In Schedule 7 to the principal Act (claim for allowance of certain exploration expenditure etc.) at the end of the Table set out in paragraph 1(3) (which applies the provisions of Schedule 5 specified in the first column of the Table with the modifications specified in the second column) there shall be added—
“9 | In sub-paragraph (2) omit paragraphs (b) and (c), in sub-paragraph (8) for the reference to all or any of the participators substitute a reference to the participator by whom the claim is made and in sub-paragraph (11) for “after 15th March 1983” substitute “ on or after 17th March 1987 ”.” |
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C4Part of the text of s. 67 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991
(1)The M27Exchange Control Act 1947 shall cease to have effect.
(2)Nothing in subsection (1) above affects the power of the Treasury to issue a certificate under subsection (2) of section 18 of that Act (including that subsection as applied by section 28(3) or section 29(3) of that Act) with respect to acts done before 13th December 1979.
F30(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4)Subsections (1) and (2) above extend to the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
Textual Amendments
F30S. 68(3) repealed (6.3.1992 with effect as mentioned in s. 289(1) of the repealing Act) by Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), ss. 289, 290, Sch.12 (with Sch. 11 paras. 22, 26(2), 27)
Marginal Citations
In section 2 of the M28Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 (power of Treasury to suspend financial dealings)—
(a)at the end of paragraph (c) of subsection (1) (power to suspend dealings in gold) there shall be added “ or, according as may be specified in the order, gold of such kind as may be so specified ”; and
(b)in subsection (6) for the definition beginning “foreign currency” there shall be substituted—
““foreign currency” means any currency other than sterling and any units of account defined by reference to more than one currency (whether or not including sterling); and
“gold” includes gold coin, gold bullion and gold wafers.”
Marginal Citations
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(2)In section 158 of the M29Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (double taxation conventions) after subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(1A)Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) above, if it appears to Her Majesty to be appropriate, the arrangements specified in an Order in Council under this section may include provisions with respect to the exchange of information necessary for carrying out the domestic laws of the United Kingdom and the laws of the territory to which the arrangements relate concerning taxes covered by the arrangements including, in particular, provisions about the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to those taxes; and where arrangements do include any such provisions, the declaration in the Order in Council shall state that fact.”
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Textual Amendments
(1)This Act may be cited as the Finance Act 1987.
(2)In this Act “the Taxes Act” means the M30Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970.
(3)Part II of this Act, so far as it relates to income tax, shall be construed as one with the Income Tax Acts, so far as it relates to corporation tax, shall be construed as one with the Corporation Tax Acts and, so far as it relates to capital gains tax, shall be construed as one with the M31Capital Gains Tax Act 1979.
(4)Part III of this Act, except section 56 and Schedule 7, shall be construed as one with the M32Stamp Act 1891.
(5)In Part IV of this Act “the 1984 Act” means the M33Inheritance Tax Act 1984.
(6)Part V of this Act shall be construed as one with Part I of the M34Oil Taxation Act 1975 and in that Part “the principal Act” means that Act.
(7)The enactments specified in Schedule 16 to this Act (which include enactments which are spent or otherwise unnecessary) are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule, but subject to any provision at the end of any Part of that Schedule.
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