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(1)For section 7 of the [1979 c. 3.] Customs and Excise Duties (General Reliefs) Act 1979 (relief from customs or excise duty on imported legacies) there shall be substituted—
(1)The Commissioners may by order make provision for conferring reliefs from duty and value added tax in respect of goods imported into the United Kingdom by or for any person who has become entitled to them as legatee.
(2)Any such relief may take the form either of an exemption from payment of duty and tax or of a provision whereby the sum payable by way of duty or tax is less than it would otherwise be.
(3)The Commissioners may by order make provision supplementing any Community relief, in such manner as they think necessary or expedient.
(4)An order under this section—
(a)may make any relief for which it provides or any Community relief subject to conditions, including conditions which are to be complied with after the importation of the goods to which the relief applies ;
(b)may, in relation to any relief conferred by order made under this section, contain such incidental and supplementary provisions as the Commissioners think necessary or expedient; and
(c)may make different provision for different cases.
(5)In this section—
" Community relief" means any relief which is conferred by a Community instrument and is of a kind, or of a kind similar to that, which could otherwise be conferred by order made under this section;
" duty " means customs or excise duty chargeable on goods imported into the United Kingdom and, in the case of excise duty, includes any addition to the duty by virtue of section 1 of the [1979 c. 8.] Excise Duties (Surcharges or Rebates) Act 1979 ;
" legatee " means any person taking under a testamentary disposition or donatio mortis causa or on an intestacy ; and
" value added tax" means value added tax chargeable on the importation of goods.”.
(2)In section 17 of the [1979 c. 3.] Customs and Excise Duties (General Reliefs) Act 1979 (parliamentary control of orders and regulations), in subsection (3), after the figure " 4 " there shall be inserted " 7 ".
(3)This section shall be deemed to have come into force on 1st July 1984.
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