The Hydrocarbon Oil Duties (Marine Voyages Reliefs) Regulations 1996

Interpretation U.K.

2.  In these Regulations—

“approved person” means a person approved under regulation 4 of the deferment Regulations in respect of heavy oil for use by ships making marine voyages;

[F1 “biofuel” means biodiesel, bioethanol, bioblend or bioethanol blend;]

“contravention” includes a failure to comply;

“the deferment Regulations” means the Excise Duties (Deferred Payment) Regulations 1992(1);

“marine voyage” means a voyage in which the ship is at all times—

(a)

within the limits of a port, or

(b)

outside the United Kingdom.

[F2 private pleasure craft” has the same meaning as in section 14E of the Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979;]

“qualified claimant” means—

(a)

the owner of the ship on which the hydrocarbon oil [F3 or, as the case may be, biofuel] was, or will be, used;

(b)

the charterer to whom that ship is, or was at the time of the marine voyage, demised;

(c)

a person appointed by the person mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) above to act as sole agent for that ship;

(d)

if he is authorised to do so by the person mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) above, the master of that ship; and

(e)

where the claim relates to hydrocarbon oil [F3 or, as the case may be, biofuel] used on that ship while undergoing trials for the purpose of testing her hull or machinery, the builder or other person conducting the trials.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 2 inserted (1.4.2008) by The Hydrocarbon Oil, Biofuels and Other Fuel Substitutes (Determination of Composition of a Substance and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/753), regs. 1(2), 5(2)(a)

F2 Words in reg. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Excise Duties (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/15), regs. 1, 4(2); S.I. 2020/1640, reg. 2, Sch.

F3 Words in reg. 2 inserted (1.4.2008) by The Hydrocarbon Oil, Biofuels and Other Fuel Substitutes (Determination of Composition of a Substance and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/753), regs. 1(2), 5(2)(b)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 2 in force at 1.11.1996, see reg. 1

(1)

S.I. 1992/3152.