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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/value-added-tax-act-1994/schedule-8/part-II/chapter-20/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/23",
  "legislation_title": "Value Added Tax Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/value-added-tax-act-1994",
  "path": "schedule/8/part/II/chapter/20/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Item No.",
  "text": "The supply of equipment to provide protection from infection where the supply is made in the period beginning with 1st May 2020 and ending with 31st October 2020.\nNOTES\n(1) In this Group “equipment to provide protection from infection” means personal protective equipment recommended for use in connection with protection from infection with coronavirus in guidance published by Public Health England on 24th April 2020 titled “Guidance, COVID-19 personal protective equipment (PPE)” namely—\n(a) disposable gloves,\n(b) disposable plastic aprons,\n(c) disposable fluid-resistant coveralls or gowns,\n(d) surgical masks (including fluid-resistant type IIR surgical masks),\n(e) filtering face piece respirators, and\n(f) eye and face protection (including single or reusable full face visors or goggles).\n(2) Item 1 does not include—\n(a) any of the supplies described in Group 12 or Group 15 of this Schedule, or\n(b) any of the supplies that would be exempt by virtue of Group 7 of Schedule 9.\n(3) In this Group “coronavirus” means severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 Pt. 2 Group 9 item 1 substituted (6.4.2013) by Finance Act 2012 (c. 14), Sch. 26 paras. 4(2), 7(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 8 Pt. 2 Group 19 Note (1)(d) inserted (1.1.2024) by The Value Added Tax (Women’s Sanitary Products: Reusable Underwear) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1341), arts. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 8 Pt. 2 Group 20 inserted (1.5.2020) by The Value Added Tax (Zero Rate for Personal Protective Equipment) (Coronavirus) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/458), arts. 1, 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 Pt. 2 Group 20 substituted (30.7.2020) by The Value Added Tax (Zero Rate for Personal Protective Equipment) (Extension) (Coronavirus) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/698), arts. 1, 3"
    }
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      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/7",
      "affecting_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2012"
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      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
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    {
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      "affecting_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2012"
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    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "nisi/2015/2006",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015"
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    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2019/73",
      "affecting_title": "The Value Added Tax (Tour Operators) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019"
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