Finance Act 1994

235 Valuation of oil

(1) With respect to chargeable periods ending after 31st December 1993, subsection (5A) of section 2 of the [1975 c. 22.] Oil Taxation Act 1975 (special rules for valuation of oil consisting of gas which is disposed of in a sale at arm’s length on terms including transportation costs etc.) shall be amended as follows—

(a) for the words “oil consisting of gas” there shall be substituted “oil”;

(b) for the word “gas”, in each place where it subsequently occurs, there shall be substituted “oil”;

(c) for the words “for delivery at a place” there shall be substituted “or another country for delivery at another place in or”; and

(d) in paragraph (ii) after the words “United Kingdom”, in the second place where they occur, there shall be inserted “or, in the case of oil first landed in another country, at the place in that or any other country”.

(2) In Schedule 3 to that Act, in each of paragraphs 2(3) and 2A(3) for “(2)(e)” there shall be substituted “(2)(f)”.

(3) In Schedule 10 to the [1987 c. 16.] Finance Act 1987 (nomination scheme for disposals and appropriations of oil), in paragraph 4 (timing of nominations)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (1) for the words “sub-paragraph (2)” there shall be substituted “sub-paragraphs (2) and (2A)”; and

(b) after sub-paragraph (2) there shall be inserted—

“(2A) Where the proposed transaction has a transaction base date later than 31st December 1993, sub-paragraph (1) above has effect with the substitution for the reference to the second business day of a reference to the first business day.”

(4) In paragraph 11 of that Schedule (a participator’s aggregate nominated proceeds for a month), in sub-paragraph (2) for the words “sub-paragraph (2A)” there shall be substituted “sub-paragraphs (2A) and (2B)” and after sub-paragraph (2A) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(2B) In the case of a nominated transaction which is a disposal to which subsection (5A) of section 2 of the principal Act applies, for the amount which, apart from this sub-paragraph, would be the nominated price for the purposes of sub-paragraph (2) above there shall be substituted the amount which, under that subsection, is deemed to be the price received or receivable for the oil in question.”