The Customs (Bulk Customs Declaration and Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

Interpretation U.K.

2.  In this Part—

“the Act” means the Taxation (Cross-border) Trade Act 2018;

“authorised declarant” has the meaning given by regulation 3(1);

“bulk Customs declaration process” has the meaning given by regulation 5(1);

“Customs obligation” has the meaning given by regulation 2 of the import duty regulations;

“the import duty regulations” means the Customs (Import Duty) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 M1 ;

“postal packet” means a letter, parcel, packet or other article transmissible by post;

[F1 “UK Reliefs document” has the same meaning as in regulation 2 of the Customs (Reliefs from a Liability to Import Duty and Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020;]

“UP Convention” means the Universal Postal Convention, as most recently done at Istanbul on 6 October 2016 and in Addis Ababa on 7 September 2018, and any regulations made under it M2 .

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 2 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Customs (Reliefs from a Liability to Import Duty and Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1431), regs. 1, 24(2); S.I. 2020/1643, reg. 2, Sch.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 2 in force at 1.10.2020 for specified purposes, see reg. 1(4)(a)

I2 Reg. 2 in force at 31.12.2020 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2020/1643, reg. 2, Sch.

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 2018/1248. Relevant amending instruments are S.I 2019/108, 2019/326, 2019/486, 2019/1215 and 2019/1346.

M2 Available from: https://www.upu.int/en/Universal-Postal-Union/About-UPU/Acts. A person unable to access the UP Convention electronically may access the convention while government advice on social distancing and unnecessary travel applies, in hard copy by post free of charge on application to 07741835049, and otherwise by inspection free of charge at HMRC, 100 Parliament Street, London SW1A 2BQ.