{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1997/schedule-5/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1997/schedule-5/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/16",
  "legislation_title": "Finance Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1997",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In each of the enactments specified in sub-paragraph (2) below (which provide for the time limits applying to the making of assessments), for the words “six years”, wherever they occur, there shall be substituted the words “ three years ”.\n(2) Those enactments are—\n(a) section 12(4)(a) and (5) of the Finance Act 1994 (excise duties);\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 6(2)(b)(c) omitted (1.4.2010) by virtue of Finance Act 2009 (c. 10), s. 99(2), Sch. 51 para. 43(b); S.I. 2010/867, art. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/16/schedule/5/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:27:43.076653+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."
}