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Removal from warehouse—generalU.K.

17.—(1) Any goods removed from an excise warehouse without payment of duty as samples or for scientific research and testing and which are no longer required for the purpose for which they were removed shall be—

(a)destroyed to the satisfaction of the proper officer;

(b)rewarehoused in an excise warehouse; or

(c)diverted to home use on payment of the duty chargeable thereon.

(2) The proper officer may require any goods entered for removal from an excise warehouse for any purpose, other than home use, to be secured or identified by the use of a seal, lock or mark, and any such requirement may continue after the goods have been removed.

(3) In such cases as the Commissioners may direct the proper officer may impose conditions and restrictions on the removal of goods from an excise warehouse in addition to those imposed elsewhere in these Regulations.

(4) Any goods in respect of which any of the provisions of these Regulations relating to removal of goods from an excise warehouse (other than regulation 15(f)) is contravened shall be liable to forfeiture.

(5) The Commissioners may direct that any provision of these Regulations relating to removal of goods from an excise warehouse shall not apply in the case of hydrocarbon oils.

[F1(6) Subject to paragraph (7) below, goods entered for removal from an excise warehouse for any of the purposes set out in regulation 16 above shall be accompanied by an accompanying document that has been completed and is used in accordance with the instructions for completion and use set out on the reverse of copy 1 of that document.

(7) Paragraph (6) above does not apply to—

(a)goods entered for removal for home use, shipment as stores or denaturing;

(b)goods entered for removal for use by a person to whom section 13A of the Customs and Excise Duties (General Reliefs) Act 1979 (reliefs from duties and taxes for persons enjoying certain immunities and privileges) applies;

(c)goods entered for removal that are, in accordance with regulations made under section 12(1) of the Customs and Excise Duties (General Reliefs) Act 1979 (supply of duty-free goods to Her Majesty’s ships), to be treated as exported;

(d)spirits entered for removal for use by a person authorised to receive them in accordance with [F2section 78(1) and (2) of the Finance (No. 2) Act 2023 (authorised use for certain purposes)];

F3(e). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F4(ea). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F5(eb)goods entered for removal in circumstances to which Part 8 of the Excise Goods (Holding, Movement and Duty Point) Regulations 2010 apply;]

(f)goods that are being lawfully moved under the cover of a single administrative document; or

(g)any goods that are entered for removal from an excise warehouse for any of the purposes set out in regulation 16 above before 1st October 2002 if those goods are accompanied by a document that has been approved by the Commissioners for that purpose.

(8) If there is a contravention of, or failure to comply with, paragraph (6) above, the excise duty point for excise goods that are required by this regulation to be accompanied by an accompanying document is the time those goods were removed from the excise warehouse.

(9) The person liable to pay the excise duty at the excise duty point is—

(a)the person who arranged for the security required by regulation 16(5) above, or

(b)if regulation 16(5) above was not complied with, the authorized warehousekeeper.

(10) Any person whose conduct caused a contravention of, or failure to comply with, paragraph (6) above is jointly and severally liable to pay the excise duty with the person specified in paragraph (9) above.

(11) Any excise duty that any person is liable to pay by virtue of this regulation must be paid immediately.

(12) In this regulation—

[F6“single administrative document” means the single administrative document provided for in a public notice made by the Commissioners under paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018;]

“accompanying document” means the document set out in Schedule 4 below.]

Textual Amendments

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Regulations, as they had effect immediately before IP completion day, continued (N.I.) (31.12.2020) with respect to excise goods by The Excise Duties (Northern Ireland Miscellaneous Modifications and Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1559), regs. 1(1), 100(2)(b)

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 17 in force at 1.6.1988, see reg. 1

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