Part IU.K. Duties of Excise

Air passenger dutyU.K.

15 Rates of duty.U.K.

(1)Section 30 of the M1Finance Act 1994 (rate of air passenger duty) shall be deemed to have been enacted with the following modifications.

(2)The following subsection shall be substituted for subsection (2) (£5 if journey ends in member State or territory for whose external relations it is responsible)—

(2)The rate is £5 if that place is in the area specified in subsection (3) below and in—

(a)the United Kingdom or another EEA State, or

(b)any territory for whose external relations the United Kingdom or another member State is responsible.

(3)The following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (8)—

(9)In this section “EEA State” means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement but until the EEA Agreement comes into force in relation to Liechtenstein does not include the State of Liechtenstein; and “EEA Agreement” here means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993.

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