Paragraph 5

The responsible person for F1a taxable fieldshall, for each chargeable period, prepare and, within one month after the end of the period F2or within such longer period as the Board may allow, deliver to the Board a return for that period complying with sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) below; but nothing in this sub-paragraph shall require the responsible person to deliver a return under this paragraph before 31st July 1975.

A return under this paragraph for a chargeable period shall—

The reference in sub-paragraph (2)(d) above to particulars of or relating to the field includes a reference to particulars required for determining the amount by which any qualifying tariff receipts, within the meaning of section 9 of the Oil Taxation Act 1983, are to be treated as reduced by virtue of that section.

If in any chargeable period oil won from the taxable field is mixed as mentioned in section 63 of the Finance Act 1987 so as to give rise to blended oil, within the meaning of that section, then, as respects that chargeable period, for paragraph (a) of sub-paragraph (2) above there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(a)

state the total of the shares of the participators in the taxable field of the oil won from the field during the period less so much of the oil won from the field as is not saved”.

A return under this paragraph shall be in such form as the Board may prescribe and shall include a declaration that the return is correct and complete.

The power of the Board to allow an extension of time under sub-paragraph (1) above shall include power—