The Finance Act 1997 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 560 (C. 10)

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The Finance Act 1997 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1998

Made

3rd March 1998

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the power conferred by paragraph 9 of Schedule 3 to the Finance Act 1997(1), hereby makes the following Order:—

1.  This Order may be cited as the Finance Act 1997 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1998.

2.  Schedule 3 to the Finance Act 1997 (vehicles exempt from vehicle excise duty) shall come into force on 1st April 1998.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Helene Hayman

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

3rd March 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings the provisions of Schedule 3 to the Finance Act 1997 into force on 1st April 1998. The Schedule contains provisions amending the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 in relation to vehicles exempt from vehicle excise duty.

Note as to Earlier Commencement Orders

(This note is not part of the Order)

The following provision of the Act has been brought into force by commencement order made before the date of this Order:

Provision	Date of Commencement	S.I. No.
s.20	8.10.1997	1997/2392

(1)

1997 c. 16.