{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1994/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1994/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/9",
  "legislation_title": "Finance Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1994",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Review procedure.",
  "text": "(1) Where the Commissioners are required in accordance with section 14 or 14A to review any decision, it shall be their duty to do so and they may, on that review, either—\n(a) confirm the decision; or\n(b) withdraw or vary the decision and take such further steps (if any) in consequence of the withdrawal or variation as they may consider appropriate.\n(2) Where—\n(a) it is the duty of the Commissioners in pursuance of a requirement by any person under section 14 or 14A above to review any decision; and\n(b) they do not, within the period of forty-five days beginning with the day on which the review was required, give notice to that person of their determination on the review,\nthey shall be assumed for the purposes of section 14 or 14A to have confirmed the decision.\n(3) The Commissioners shall not by virtue of any requirement under this Chapter to review a decision have any power, apart from their power in pursuance of section 8(4) above, to mitigate the amount of any penalty imposed under this Chapter.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 15(1) substituted (1.4.2009) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions and Revenue and Customs Appeals Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/56), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 201(2) (with Sch. 3 paras. 2-4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 15(2)(a) inserted (1.4.2009) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions and Revenue and Customs Appeals Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/56), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 201(3)(a) (with Sch. 3 paras. 2-4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 15(2) substituted (1.4.2009) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions and Revenue and Customs Appeals Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/56), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 201(3)(b) (with Sch. 3 paras. 2-4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 15 applied (1.6.1995) by S.I. 1995/1046, reg. 7(3)S. 15 applied (1.5.1995 with effect as mentioned in 1995 c. 4, s. 14(2)) by 1981 c. 63, Sch. 4 para. 7A(5) (as inserted by 1995 c. 4, s. 14, Sch. 3 para. 11(5))S. 15 applied (prosp.) by 1995 c. 4, s. 5(4)(6)S. 15 applied (19.3.1997) by 1997 c. 16, ss. 11(7), 13(1), 15, 50(1), Sch. 1 paras. 8(11), 9(5), Sch. 5 para. 19(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 14-16 modified (1.7.2005) by Finance Act 1995 (c. 4), s. 5(4)(6); S.I. 2005/1523, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Ss. 14-16 applied by 1981 c. 63, s. 26M(1) (as inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 8(2) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2007 (c. 11), Sch. 1 para. 2; S.I. 2007/2172, art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Ss. 14-16 applied by 1981 c. 63, s. 26M(2)-(4) (as inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 8(2) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2007 (c. 11), Sch. 1 para. 2; S.I. 2007/2172, art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Ss. 14-16 modified (with effect in accordance with s. 198(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2014 (c. 26), ss. 182(3), 198(1) (with Sch. 29)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Pt. 1 Ch. 2 modified (29.10.2020 for specified purposes, 31.12.2020 in so far as not already in force) by S.I. 2018/1248, reg. 29B(8)(a) (as inserted by The Customs (Transitional Arrangements) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1088), regs. 1(2)(4), 3(5); S.I. 2020/1643, reg. 2, Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Pt. 1 Ch. 2 modified (31.12.2020) by The Customs (Managed Transition Procedure) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/487), regs. 1(2)(3), 8(7)(a) (with reg. 11); S.I. 2020/1643, reg. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Pt. 1 applied (with modifications) (31.12.2020) by The Customs Miscellaneous Non-fiscal Provisions and Amendments etc. (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1624), regs. 1(2), 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "Pt. 1 continued (31.12.2020) by The Customs (Transitional) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1449), regs. 1(2), 3(1)(b); S.I. 2020/1643, reg. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "text": "Pt. 1 applied (with modifications) (17.12.2020 for specified purposes, 31.12.2020 in so far as not already in force) by 2018 c. 22, Sch. 7 para. 158(5) (as inserted by Taxation (Post-transition Period) Act 2020 (c. 26), s. 11(1)(e), Sch. 1 para. 10(6) (with Sch. 2 para. 7(7)-(9)); S.I. 2020/1642, reg. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C11",
      "text": "Pt. 1 Ch. 2 modified (31.12.2020) by The Customs (Managed Transition Procedure) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/487), regs. 1(2)(3), 3(7)(a) (with reg. 7); S.I. 2020/1643, reg. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 15 wholly in force at 1.1.1995; s. 15 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 19(1); s. 15 in force for certain purposes at 1.11.1994 by S.I. 1994/2679, art. 2, Sch.; s. 15 in force at 1.1.1995 insofar as not already in force by S.I. 1994/2679, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/9/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:21.412655+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}