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Regulation 3 Relevant Rule and Amount of Penalty

United Kingdom

(1)

The Schedule to these regulations shall have effect.

(2)

An entry in Column 1 of the Schedule specifies the relevant rule or the description of a relevant rule in the case of any relevant tax or duty to which it applies for the purposes of section 26(1) of the Finance Act 2003 (Penalty for contravention of relevant rule).

(3)

An entry in Column 2 of the Schedule adjacent to an entry in Column 1 specifies a person, of the description there laid out, who shall be liable to a penalty under section 26 of the Finance Act 2003 (where his conduct contravenes the relevant rule or a relevant rule of the description specified for the purposes of that section).

(4)

An entry in Column 3 of the Schedule adjacent to an entry in Columns 1 and 2 specifies for the purposes of section 26(1) of the Finance Act 2003 the maximum amount of the penalty which may be imposed upon a person specified for the purposes of that section as liable for that contravention of that specified relevant rule.

F1(5)

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(6)

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F2(7)

F3Where as a consequence of these Regulations, a person is liable to a penalty under section 26 of the Finance Act 2003 and the conduct giving rise to the liability continues after the date specified in a notice in writing given to that person by the Commissioners, that continuation of the conduct—

(a)

shall constitute a further contravention of the same rule; and

(b)

shall make that person liable to a separate penalty accordingly.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Reg. 3(5)(6) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Customs (Contravention of a Relevant Rule) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1260), regs. 1(2), 4; S.I. 2020/1643, reg. 2, Sch.

F2

Reg. 3(7) added (15.11.2011) by The Customs (Contravention of a Relevant Rule) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2534), regs. 1, 4

F3

Words in reg. 3(7) substituted (2.4.2015) by The Customs (Contravention of a Relevant Rule) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/636), regs. 1, 4

Notes on the whole SI

Textual amendments

F1

2003 c. 14.