Paragraph 17B F1

For the purposes of section 78 (customs and excise control of persons entering or leaving the United Kingdom)—

(a)

a person intending to travel to the United Kingdom through the tunnel who has entered a control zone in F2a Designated State shall be treated as a person entering the United Kingdom,

(b)

a person who has travelled from the United Kingdom through the tunnel and is in such a control zone shall be treated as still being a person leaving the United Kingdom, and

(c)

concealment shall be taken to include concealment in such a control zone.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. paras. 17A-17C inserted (2.8.1993) by The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1813), art. 1, Sch. 5 Pt. 2 para. 27
F2: Words in Sch. para. 17B(a) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/915), arts. 1(3), 14(2)(c)