Statutory Instruments
Excise
Made
5th January 2015
Laid before Parliament
7th January 2015
Coming into force
1st April 2015
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Aircraft Operators (Accounts and Records) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 1st April 2015.
2. Amend the Aircraft Operators (Accounts and Records) Regulations 1994(3) as follows.
3. In Schedule 1 (particulars of an air passenger duty account), in paragraph (e)-
(a)omit sub-paragraphs (ii), (iii), (v) and (vi);
(b)in sub-paragraph (viii) for "(a) to (d)" substitute "(a) and (d)"; and
(c)in sub-paragraph (ix) omit "(a) to".
Edward Troup
Simon Bowles
Two of the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
5th January 2015
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations make consequential amendments to the particulars of an air passenger duty account specified in Schedule 1 to the Aircraft Operators (Accounts and Records) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/1737) as a result of amendments made to the Finance Act 1994 (c. 9) by the Finance Act 2014 (c. 26) which, with effect from 1st April 2015, reduce from four to two the number of destination bands that determine the rate of air passenger duty chargeable.
A Tax Information and Impact Note covering this instrument was published on 19th March 2014 alongside the Finance Bill 2014 and is available on the Government website at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tax-information-and-impact-notes-tiins. It remains an accurate summary of the impacts that apply to this instrument.
1979 c. 2; section 1(1) of the Act (as amended by paragraph 22(b) of Schedule 4 to the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11)) defines "the Commissioners" as the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. Section 118A was inserted by Schedule 5 to the Finance Act 1991 (c. 31).
S.I. 1994/1737; amended by S.I. 2001/837, 2009/2051 and 2012/3020.