{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/customs-and-excise-duties-personal-reliefs-for-goods-permanently-imported-order-1992/article-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/customs-and-excise-duties-personal-reliefs-for-goods-permanently-imported-order-1992/article-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3193",
  "legislation_title": "The Customs and Excise Duties (Personal Reliefs for Goods Permanently Imported) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/customs-and-excise-duties-personal-reliefs-for-goods-permanently-imported-order-1992",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Relief for gifts received by official visitors in another country",
  "text": "Subject to article 20 below, a person entering the United Kingdom shall not be required to pay any duty or tax chargeable on the importation into the United Kingdom of any goods on condition that—\n(a) he is normally resident in the United Kingdom;\n(b) he is returning from an official visit to another country;\n(c) the goods were given to him by the host authorities of such country on the occasion of his visit; and\n(d) the goods are not intended for a commercial purpose.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 18(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Value Added Tax and Excise Personal Reliefs (Special Visitors and Goods Permanently Imported) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/91), regs. 1, 13; S.I. 2020/1641, reg. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 18 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Value Added Tax and Excise Personal Reliefs (Special Visitors and Goods Permanently Imported) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/91), regs. 1, 13; S.I. 2020/1641, reg. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 18 in force at 1.1.1993, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3193/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:08:46.821167+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}