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(1)In section 566 of the Taxes Act 1988 (powers to make regulations in connection with the provisions relating to sub-contractors in the construction industry), after subsection (2) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(2A)The Board may by regulations make provision—
(a)for the issue of documents (to be known as “registration cards”) to persons who are parties, as sub-contractors, to any contract relating to construction operations or who are likely to become such parties;
(b)for a registration card to contain all such information about the person to whom it is issued as may be required, for the purposes of any regulations under this section, by a person making payments under any such contract;
(c)for a registration card to take such form and to be valid for such period as may be prescribed by the regulations;
(d)for the renewal, replacement or cancellation of a registration card;
(e)for requiring the surrender of a registration card in such circumstances as may be specified in the regulations;
(f)for requiring the production of a registration card to such persons and in such circumstances as may be so specified;
(g)for requiring any person who—
(i)makes or is proposing to make payments to which section 559 applies, and
(ii)is a person to whom a registration card has to be produced under the regulations,
to take steps that ensure that it is produced to him and that he has an opportunity of inspecting it for the purpose of checking that it is a valid registration card issued to the person required to produce it.
(2B)A person who fails to comply with an obligation imposed on him by virtue of subsection (2A)(g) above shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £3,000.
(2C)Subject to subsection (2D) below, where—
(a)a person who is a party to a contract relating to any construction operations (“the contractor”) makes or is proposing to make payments to which section 559 applies,
(b)the contractor is required by regulations under this section to make statements about another party to the contract (“the sub-contractor”) in any return, certificate or other document,
(c)a registration card containing the information to be stated should have been produced, in accordance with any such regulations, to the contractor, and
(d)the statements made in the return, certificate or other document, so far as relating to matters the information about which should have been obtainable from the card, are inaccurate or incomplete in any material respect,
the contractor shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £3,000.
(2D)A person shall not be liable to a penalty under subsection (2C) above if—
(a)a valid registration card issued to the sub-contractor, or a document which the contractor had reasonable grounds for believing to be such a card, was produced to the contractor and inspected by him before the statements in question were made; and
(b)the contractor took all such steps as were reasonable, in addition to the inspection of that card, for ensuring that the statements were accurate and complete.
(2E)A person liable to a penalty under subsection (2C) above shall not, by reason only of the matters in respect of which he is liable to a penalty under that subsection, be liable to any further penalty under section 98 of the Management Act.
(2F)Regulations under this section may make different provision for different cases.”
(2)In the second column of the Table in section 98 of the M1Taxes Management Act 1970 (penalties in respect of certain information provisions), for the entry relating to regulations under section 566(1) and (2) of the Taxes Act 1988 there shall be substituted the following entry—
“regulations under section 566(1), (2) or (2A);”.
Textual Amendments
Textual Amendments
(1)In subsection (1) of section 196 of the M2Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (interpretation of sections 194 and 195), for “licence” there shall be substituted “ UK licence ”.
(2)After subsection (1) of section 196 of that Act there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(1A)For the purposes of section 194 a licence other than a UK licence relates to an undeveloped area at any time if, at that time—
(a)no development has actually taken place in any part of the licensed area; and
(b)no condition for the carrying out of development anywhere in that area has been satisfied—
(i)by the grant of any consent by the authorities of a country or territory exercising jurisdiction in relation to the area; or
(ii)by the approval or service on the licensee, by any such authorities, of any programme of development.”;
and in subsection (2) of that section for “subsection (1) above” there shall be substituted “ subsections (1) and (1A) above ”.
(3)For subsection (5) of section 196 of that Act there shall be substituted the following subsections—
“(5)In sections 194 and 195 and this section—
“foreign oil concession” means any right to search for or win overseas petroleum, being a right conferred or exercisable (whether or not by virtue of a licence) in relation to a particular area;
“interest” in relation to a licence, includes, where there is an agreement which—
relates to oil from the whole or any part of the licensed area, and
was made before the extraction of the oil to which it relates,
any entitlement under that agreement to, or to a share of, either that oil or the proceeds of its sale;
“licence” means any UK licence or foreign oil concession;
“licensed area” (subject to subsection (4) above)—
in relation to a UK licence, has the same meaning as in Part I of the M3Oil Taxation Act 1975; and
in relation to a foreign oil concession, means the area to which the concession applies;
“licensee”—
in relation to a UK licence, has the same meaning as in Part I of the Oil Taxation Act 1975; and
in relation to a foreign oil concession, means the person with the concession or any person having an interest in it;
“oil”—
except in relation to a UK licence, means any petroleum (within the meaning of the M4Petroleum (Production) Act 1934); and
in relation to such a licence, has the same meaning as in Part I of the Oil Taxation Act 1975;
“overseas petroleum” means any oil that exists in its natural condition at a place to which neither the M5Petroleum (Production) Act 1934 nor the M6Petroleum (Production) Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 applies; and
“UK licence” means a licence within the meaning of Part I of the M7Oil Taxation Act 1975.
(5A)References in sections 194 and 195 to a part disposal of a licence shall include references to the disposal of any interest in a licence.”
(4)Subsections (1) to (3) above shall have effect in relation to any disposal on or after 13th September 1995 and subsection (3) shall also have effect, and be deemed always to have had effect, for the construction of section 195 of the M8Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 in its application to disposals before that date.
(5)Where enactments re-enacted in the M9Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 apply, instead of that Act, in the case of any disposal before 13th September 1995, this section shall have effect as if it required amendments equivalent to those made by subsection (3) above to have effect, and be deemed always to have had effect, for the construction of any enactment corresponding to section 195 of that Act.
Marginal Citations
Schedule 36 to this Act (which contains amendments of Chapter IV of Part XVII of the Taxes Act 1988) shall have effect in relation to accounting periods of a controlled foreign company, within the meaning of that Chapter, beginning on or after 28th November 1995.
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