1 Refund of customs duty on hydrocarbon oil used for diplomatic or Commonwealth Secretariat purposes.

(1)

Subject to the provisions of this section, the Commissioners of Customs and Excise shall make arrangements for securing the refund of F1duty (whether of customs or excise) paid on imported hydrocarbon oil (within the meaning of the M1 Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979) or value added tax paid on the importation of such oil which is—

(a)

bought in the United Kingdom; and

(b)

used for such a purpose that, had it been imported for that use, exemption from F1duty thereon would have been required to be granted by virtue of—

(i)

paragraph 1 of Article 36 or paragraph 1 of Article 37 of the Articles set out in Schedule 1 to the M2Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964; or

(ii)

section 7 of the said Act of 1964; or

(iii)

paragraph 4 of the Schedule to the M3Commonwealth Secretariat Act 1966;

but the Commissioners shall not make any payment by virtue of this subsection before such date as may be specified by directions of the Treasury.

(2)

Any arrangements made under this section may impose conditions subject to which any refund is to be made.

(3)

Section 3(1) of the said Act of 1964 (which relates to the withdrawal of privileges and immunities conferred by that Act) shall have effect as if the reference therein to that Act included a reference to this section.

(4)

Any amount refunded under arrangements made under this section shall be defrayed out of the moneys standing to the credit of the General Account of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise.

F2(5)

In this section references to importation, in relation to value added tax, shall include references to anything charged with tax in accordance with section F3F41(1)(c) of the Value Added Tax Act 1994 F5(imposition of charge to value added tax on imported goods) , and, in this section, “ imported ” shall be construed accordingly.