Finance Act 2000

50(1)This paragraph applies where, in connection with concluding or varying a climate change agreement, it falls to be determined whether a facility is to be, or is to continue to be, identified in the agreement as a facility to which the agreement applies.U.K.

(2)For the purposes of such a determination “facility” is (subject to any regulations under sub-paragraph (3) or (4)) to be taken as meaning—

(a)an installation covered by paragraph 51; or

(b)a site on which there is or are—

(i)such an installation or two or more such installations,

(ii)a part, or parts, of such an installation,

(iii)a part, or parts, of each of two or more such installations, or

(iv)any combination of such installations and parts of such installations.

(3)The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision for an installation covered by paragraph 51 to be taken to be a facility for those purposes only if—

(a)the taxable commodities supplied to the installation by taxable supplies are intended to be burned (or, in the case of electricity, consumed)—

(i)in the installation, or

(ii)on the site where the installation is situated but not in the installation,

and

(b)the amounts of taxable commodities, and of any other commodities specified in the regulations, subject to each of those intentions are such that any conditions specified in the regulations are satisfied.

(4)The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision for a site to be taken to be a facility for those purposes only if—

(a)the taxable commodities supplied to the site by taxable supplies are intended to be burned (or, in the case of electricity, consumed)—

(i)in installations on the site that are covered by paragraph 51 (or in parts of such installations), or

(ii)on the site but not in any such installation (or part of such an installation),

and

(b)the amounts of taxable commodities, and of any other commodities specified in the regulations, subject to each of those intentions are such that any conditions specified in the regulations are satisfied.

(5)Regulations under sub-paragraph (3) or (4) may make provision for deeming, for the purposes of the regulations, commodities to be intended to be burned (or, in the case of electricity, consumed) in circumstances specified in the regulations.

(6)In this paragraph and paragraph 51 “installation” means a stationary technical unit.