Part I Customs and Excise and Value Added Tax

chapter I Customs and Excise

Rates of duty

3 Hydrocarbon oil.

(1)

In section 6 of the M1Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979—

(a)

in subsection (1), for “£0.2044” (duty on light oil) and “£0.1729” (duty on heavy oil) there shall be substituted “ £0.2248 ” and “ £0.1902 ” respectively; and

(b)

subsection (2A) (special rate of duty on petrol below 4 star) shall cease to have effect.

(2)

In section 11(1) of that Act, for “£0.0077” (rebate on fuel oil) and “£0.0110” (rebate on gas oil) there shall be substituted “ £0.0083 ” and “ £0.0118 ” respectively.

(3)

In section 13A(1) of that Act (rebate on unleaded petrol), for “£0.0272” there shall be substituted “ £0.0299 ”.

(4)

In section 14(1) of that Act (rebate on light oil for use as furnace fuel), for “£0.0077” there shall be substituted “ £0.0083 ”.

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(6)

Subsections (1) to (4) above shall be deemed to have come into force at 6 o’clock in the evening of 20th March 1990.