# Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971 (Repealed 1.9.1994), Paragraph 1

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) Subject to paragraph 6 below, the annual rate of duty applicable to a goods vehicle—
(a) which has a plated gross weight or a plated train weight which exceeds 3,500 kilograms but does not exeed 7,500 kilograms; or
(aa) which has a plated gross weight or plated train weight exceeding 7,500 kilograms but has such a weight only by virtue of paragraph 9(2A)(c) below and is not a vehicle of a prescribed class; or
(b) which has neither a plated gross weight nor a plated train weight but which has a design weight which exceeds 3,500 kilograms; or
(c) which is a tower wagon, having a plated gross weight exceeding 3,500 kilograms or, in the case of a vehicle which has no such weight, a design weight exceeding 3,500 kilograms;
shall be £150.
(2) Any references in the following provisions of this Schedule to the basic rate of duty is a reference to the annual rate of duty for the time being applicable to vehicles falling within sub-paragraph (1) above.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/10/part/General/Provisions/crossheading/vehicles-chargeable-at-the-basic-rate-of-duty/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/vehicles-excise-act-1971-repealed-191994/part-General/Provisions/crossheading-vehicles-chargeable-at-the-basic-rate-of-duty/paragraph-1
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