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The Customs Duty (Personal Reliefs) (Amendment) Order 1992

S.I. 1992/3192 · Made 16 December 1992

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Order made by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise, laid before the House of Commons under section 17(4) of the Customs and Excise Duties (General Reliefs) Act 1979, for approval by resolution of that House within twenty-eight days beginning with the day on which the Order was made, subject to extension for periods of dissolution, prorogation or adjournment for more than four days.

CUSTOMS AND EXCISE

Made 16th December 1992

Laid before the House of Commons 17th December 1992

Coming into force 1st January 1993

The Commissioners of Customs and Excise, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 13 of the Customs and Excise Duties (General Reliefs) Act 1979f1 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1979 c. 3; section 13 was amended by the Finance Act 1984 (c. 43), section 15 and by the Finance (No.2) Act 1992 (c. 48), section 1 and Schedule 1, paragraph 8. Section 18 applies the definition of “the Commissioners” in section 1(1) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (c. 2).

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. 3Article 3
  4. 4Article 4
  5. 5Article 5
  6. 6Article 6
  7. 7Article 7
  8. 8Article 8
  9. 9Article 9
  10. 10Article 10
  11. 11Article 11
  12. 12Article 12
  13. 13Article 13
  14. Signature
  15. Explanatory note

1

This Order may be cited as the Customs Duty (Personal Reliefs) (Amendment) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 1st January 1993.

2

The Customs Duty (Personal Reliefs) (No. 1) Order 1968f1 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this Order.

3

For the purposes of this Order, “third country” shall have the meaning given by Article 3.1 of Council Directive 77/388/EECf1.

4

In paragraph 1f1, after “United Kingdom” there shall be inserted “, having travelled from a third country,”.

5

Paragraphs 2(1)(ii), (1A) and (1B)f1 shall be omitted.

6

In paragraph 7(1)f1, after “articles” there shall be inserted “which were obtained in a third country or duty and tax free on a ship or aircraft and which are”.

7

Paragraphs 8 and 9(2)f1 shall be omitted.

8

In Schedule 1–

(a)

paragraph (a)f1 shall be omitted;

(b)

in paragraph (b)f2 –

(i)

the words from “If” to “EEC:” shall be omitted,

(ii)

for “£32” there shall be substituted “£36”.

9

In column 1 of Schedule 2–

(a)

in paragraph 1, the words from “the Republic” to the end shall be omitted;

(b)

for sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) of paragraph 2 there shall be substituted–

“(i)

from a third country, or

(ii)

from an area of open sea beyond the seaward limits of the territorial waters of the member States”.

10

In column 1 of Schedule 3, for the words from “either” to “Order” (in paragraphs 1(i) and 2(i) respectively) there shall be substituted “from a third country or from an area of open sea beyond the seaward limits of the territorial waters of the member States”.

11

In paragraphs 1 and 2 respectively of column 1 of Schedule 4, after “aircraft” there shall be inserted “which has arrived from a third country”.

12

Schedule 6f1 shall be omitted.

13

The following Orders are revoked:

  • The Customs Duty (Personal Reliefs) (No. 1) Order 1975f1;

  • The Customs Duty (Personal Reliefs) (No. 1) Order 1975 (Amendment) Order 1978f2;

  • The Customs Duty (Personal Reliefs) (No. 1) Order 1975 (Amendment) Order 1979f3;

  • The Customs and Excise Duties (Personal Reliefs for Goods Temporarily Imported) Order 1983f4;

  • The Customs and Excise Duties (Personal Reliefs for Goods Temporarily Imported) (Amendment) Order 1991f5.

Signature

M.J. Eland

Commissioner of Customs and Excise

New King’s Beam House,

22 Upper Ground,

London SE1 9PJ

16th December 1992

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Customs Duty (Personal Reliefs) (No. 1) Order 1968.

As a result of measures which, like this Order, will take effect on 1st January 1993 to fulfil the United Kingdom’s obligations in the Single Market, the Order limits the application of the 1968 Order to affording reliefs (from VAT and excise duties) to travellers arriving from places outside the EC. From 1st January 1993 the reliefs from excise duties which will apply to travellers arriving from other member States are set out in the Excise Duties (Personal Reliefs) Order 1992f1. Goods received from other member States will no longer be treated as imported for value added tax purposes.

Council Directive 69/169/EECf2 lays down the value of goods which may be imported without payment of duty and tax by travellers from outside the EC. Article 7 of the Directive provides that the ECU rates to be taken into consideration for the purposes of the directive shall be revalorised in national currencies each year on the first working day of October and implemented with effect from 1st January of the following year. As a result of the revalorisation of the ECU rates in October 1992, the value of goods which may be imported by travellers other than crew is increased from £32 to £36.

The Order revokes statutory instruments of 1975, 1978 and 1979 which provided for flat rate charges for customs duty (now governed by directly applicable EC law)f3.

The Order also revokes statutory instruments of 1983 and 1991 which afforded reliefs from customs and excise duties and value added tax on the temporary importation of certain goods from places outside the EC. From 1st January 1993 reliefs from customs duties on all such goods will be governed by EC Regulationsf4. By virtue of section 24(1) of the Value Added Tax Act 1983f5 the rules governing reliefs from VAT will be the same as those for customs duties contained in those Regulations. Relief from excise duty on fuel and lubricants in the tanks or engines of vehicles will be allowed by the Excise Duties (Personal Reliefs) (Fuel and Lubricants Imported in Vehicles) Order 1989f6.