Part I Customs and Excise and Value Added Tax

chapter I Customs and Excise

Rates of duty

3 Hydrocarbon oil.

1

In section 6 of the M1Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979—

a

in subsection (1), for “£0.2044” (duty on light oil) and “£0.1729” (duty on heavy oil) there shall be substituted “ £0.2248 ” and “ £0.1902 ” respectively; and

b

subsection (2A) (special rate of duty on petrol below 4 star) shall cease to have effect.

2

In section 11(1) of that Act, for “£0.0077” (rebate on fuel oil) and “£0.0110” (rebate on gas oil) there shall be substituted “ £0.0083 ” and “ £0.0118 ” respectively.

3

In section 13A(1) of that Act (rebate on unleaded petrol), for “£0.0272” there shall be substituted “ £0.0299 ”.

4

In section 14(1) of that Act (rebate on light oil for use as furnace fuel), for “£0.0077” there shall be substituted “ £0.0083 ”.

5

In Part I of Schedule 3 to that Act, for paragraph 10A there shall be substituted—

10A

Amending the definition of “aviation gasoline” in subsection (4) of section 6 of this Act.

6

Subsections (1) to (4) above shall be deemed to have come into force at 6 o’clock in the evening of 20th March 1990.