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Finance Act 1994

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43Interpretation

(1)In this Chapter—

  • “accounting period” means any period prescribed or allowed for the purposes of section 38 above,

  • “agreement for carriage”, in relation to the carriage of any person, means the agreement or arrangement under which he is carried, whether the carriage is by a single carrier or successive carriers,

  • “Air Navigation Order” has the same meaning as in the [1982 c. 16.] Civil Aviation Act 1982,

  • “airport” means any aerodrome (within the meaning of that Act),

  • “carriage” means carriage wholly or partly by air, and “carried” is to be read accordingly,

  • “connected”, in relation to any flights, has the meaning given by section 30(8) above,

  • “document” includes information recorded in any form,

  • “duty” means air passenger duty,

  • “fiscal representative” has the meaning given by section 34(2) above,

  • “flight” has the meaning given by section 28(5) above,

  • “operator”, in relation to any aircraft, means the person having the management of the aircraft for the time being,

  • “passenger”, in relation to any aircraft, means—

    (a)

    where the operator is an air transport undertaking (within the meaning of the Air Navigation Order), any person carried on the aircraft other than—

    (i)

    a member of the flight crew,

    (ii)

    a cabin attendant, or

    (iii)

    a person who is not carried for reward, who is an employee of any aircraft operator and who satisfies such other requirements as may be prescribed, and

    (b)

    in any other case, any person carried on the aircraft for reward,

  • “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations,

  • “reward”, in relation to the carriage of any person, includes any form of consideration received or to be received wholly or partly in connection with the carriage, irrespective of the person by whom or to whom the consideration has been or is to be given, and

  • “ticket” means a document or documents evidencing an agreement (wherever made) for the carriage of any person.

(2)Subject to subsection (3) below, in this Chapter, in relation to a passenger whose agreement for carriage is evidenced by a ticket—

  • “journey” means the journey from his original place of departure to his final place of destination, and

  • “original place of departure” and “final place of destination” mean the original place of departure and the final place of destination indicated on his ticket.

(3)For the purposes of this Chapter, where the agreement for carriage of a passenger by air is evidenced by a ticket, the ticket is a return ticket if (and only if) it covers his return by air to the airport from which he originally departed; and, in such a case, there is both an outward and a return journey and the return journey is the journey from the final place of destination on the outward journey to that airport.

(4)Subject to the preceding provisions of this section, expressions used in this Chapter and in the [1979 c. 2.] Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 have the same meaning as in that Act.

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