Finance (No.2) Act 1987

5 (1) In paragraph 11 (which defines the aggregate nominated proceeds for a month) at the beginning of paragraph (b) of sub-paragraph (1) (market value of excess of equity production over proceeds of nominated transactions) there shall be inserted the words “subject to sub-paragraph (1A) below” and at the end of that sub-paragraph there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(1A) If for any month—

(a) a participator has made a nomination of a proposed sale, and

(b) he has an excess falling within sub-paragraph (3) below,

then for that month the reference in sub-paragraph (1)(b) above to the market value of the excess shall be construed as a reference to the market value multiplied by the designated fraction for that month.”

(2) At the beginning of sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 11 there shall be inserted “Subject to sub-paragraph (2A) below” and at the end of that sub-paragraph there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(2A) In the case of a nominated transaction consisting of a proposed supply or proposed appropriation, the proceeds of the transaction shall not have the meaning assigned by sub-paragraph (2) above unless the participator satisfies the Board—

(a) that the whole of the effective volume of oil has been or is to be used for refining as mentioned in paragraph 2(1)(b) above or, as the case may be, has been or is to be relevantly appropriated; or

(b) that, in so far as any of the effective volume of oil has not been or is not to be so used or appropriated, that is occasioned by circumstances over which neither the participator nor any company associated with him, as mentioned in paragraph 2(1) above, has (or had at any material time) control;

and if the Board are not so satisfied with respect to any such nominated transaction, the proceeds of that transaction means the market value (determined in accordance with Schedule 3 to the principal Act) of the effective volume of oil, multiplied by the designated fraction for the month in question.”

(3) At the end of paragraph 11 there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraphs—

“(5) For any month the designated fraction is such fraction as may be specified for the purposes of that month by order made by the Treasury.

(6) An order under sub-paragraph (5) above—

(a) shall not specify a fraction smaller than unity or greater than 3/2;

(b) may be made to have effect for any month in the chargeable period in which falls the date on which the order is made (whether that month begins before, on or after that date);

(c) if it has effect for a month earlier than the date on which it is made, may contain such transitional provisions as the Treasury consider appropriate; and

(d) shall be made by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Commons.”