SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 6Minor and consequential amendments

Part 2Amendments relating to onshore petroleum

Finance Act 1993 (c. 34)

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1

Section 185 of the Finance Act 1993 (abolition of petroleum revenue tax for oil fields with development consent on or after 16 March 1993) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (1C)(a) and (b), for ““OGA”” substitute “ appropriate authority ”.

3

In subsection (2)(b), for ““OGA”” substitute “ appropriate authority ”.

4

After subsection (2) insert—

2A

In subsections (1C) and (2), “"the appropriate authority”” means—

a

in relation to a field that is wholly within the Welsh onshore area (as defined in section 8A of the Petroleum Act 1998), the Welsh Ministers;

b

otherwise, the OGA.