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The Hydrocarbon Oil Duties (Reliefs for Electricity Generation) (Amendments for Carbon Price Support) Regulations 2014

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2014 No. 713

Excise

The Hydrocarbon Oil Duties (Reliefs for Electricity Generation) (Amendments for Carbon Price Support) Regulations 2014

Made

18th March 2014

Laid before Parliament

19th March 2014

Coming into force

1st May 2014

The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 20AA(1)(a) and (2) of the Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979(1):

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1979 c. 5; section 20AA was inserted by the Finance Act 1989 (c. 26), section 2(1) and has been amended by the Finance Act 1993 (c. 34), Schedule 23, Part 1(4); the Finance Act 1994 (c. 9), Schedule 4, Part 3, paragraphs 49 and 54; the Finance Act 2000 (c. 17), section 10(3) and the Finance Act 2008 (c. 9), Schedule 5, paragraph 17 and Schedule 6, paragraphs 24 and 30. Section 20AA provides that the Commissioners may make regulations allowing reliefs as regards any duty of excise which has been charged in respect of “hydrocarbon oil”; section 6AC (inserted by the Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), section 5(4)) provides that the Commissioners may by regulations provide for references in the Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979 to hydrocarbon oil to be construed as including references to biodiesel and bioblend and for references to duty on hydrocarbon oil to be construed as including references to duty under sections 6AA and 6AB(inserted by the Finance Act 2002 (c. 23). Regulation 3(1), (2) and (4) of the Biofuels and Other Fuel Substitutes (Payment of Excise Duties etc) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/2065) (as amended by S.I. 2008/753) provides that references to hydrocarbon oil and to the duty on hydrocarbon oil in section 20AA(1)(a) are to be construed as including references to biodiesel and bioblend and to the duty on biodiesel and bioblend. The power to make regulations under section 20AA is conferred on “the Commissioners” and, by virtue of section 27(3) “the Commissioners” has the same meaning as given in the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (c. 2). Section 1(1) of that Act (as amended by the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11), Schedule 4, paragraphs 20 and 22(b)) defines “the Commissioners” as “the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs”.

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