{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1994/schedule-7/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1994/schedule-7/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/9",
  "legislation_title": "Finance Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1994",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Tax due from any person shall be recoverable as a debt due to the Crown.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) In the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989, in Article 346(1) (preferential debts) the words “ insurance premium tax ” shall be inserted after “VAT” and in Schedule 4 (categories of preferential debts) the following paragraph shall be inserted after paragraph 3—\n“3A Any insurance premium tax which is referable to the period of 6 months next before the relevant date (which period is referred to below as “the 6-month period”).\nFor the purposes of this paragraph—\n(a) where the whole of the accounting period to which any insurance premium tax is attributable falls within the 6-month period, the whole amount of that tax is referable to that period; and\n(b) in any other case the amount of any insurance premium tax which is referable to the 6-month period is the proportion of the tax which is equal to such proportion (if any) of the accounting period in question as falls within the 6-month period;\nand references here to accounting periods shall be construed in accordance with Part III of the Finance Act 1994.”\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 7(2) repealed (15.9.2003) by Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40), s. 279, Sch. 26; S.I. 2003/2093, art. 2(1), Sch. 2 (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 7(3)-(5) repealed (30.11.2016) by The Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 2016 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/1034), art. 1, Sch. 2 Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 7(6) repealed (N.I.) (27.3.2006) by The Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1455), art. 1(3), Sch. 9; S.R. 2006/21, art. 2 (subject to S.R. 2006/22, arts. 2-7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 7(7)-(12) repealed (1.7.1997) by 1997 c. 16, s. 113, Sch. 18 Pt. V(2); S.I. 1997/1433, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I. 19)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed (NI) (prosp.)",
      "affecting": "nisi/1997/2983",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "nisi/1999/2789",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/9/schedule/7/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:21.412655+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."
}