Finance Act 1981

Provisions as to stores

4 (1) Section 61 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (2) (right to ship stores in ship of not less than 40 tons register or aircraft departing for a voyage or flight to some place outside the United Kingdom) for the words "to some place outside the United Kingdom" there shall be substituted the words " to a country outside the United Kingdom ".

(3) In subsection (3) (power of Commissioners to permit stores to be shipped in ship of less than 40 tons register which is departing for a place or area outside the United Kingdom) for the words from " any ship " onwards there shall be substituted the words—

“(a) any ship departing from the United Kingdom, being either a ship of not less than 40 tons register departing for a voyage not falling within subsection (2) above or a ship of less than 40 tons register; or

(b) any aircraft departing from the United Kingdom for a flight not falling within that subsection.”

(4) For subsection (9) there shall be substituted—

“(9) References in this section to a country or destination outside the United Kingdom do not include references to, or to a destination in, the Isle of Man; and subsection (5) above applies whether the goods were shipped in the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man.”