SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4 Vehicle Excise and Registration

Part III Rates

Recovery vehicles

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1

Paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the 1994 Act (recovery vehicles) shall be amended as follows.

2

In sub-paragraph (1) (annual rate of duty of £85) for the words “is £85” there shall be substituted

is—

a

if it has a revenue weight exceeding 3,500 kilograms and not exceeding 12,000 kilograms, the same as the basic goods vehicle rate;

b

if it has a revenue weight exceeding 12,000 kilograms and not exceeding 25,000 kilograms, 300 per cent. of the basic goods vehicle rate;

c

if it has a revenue weight exceeding 25,000 kilograms, 500 per cent. of the basic goods vehicle rate.

3

The following sub-paragraphs shall be inserted after sub-paragraph (5)—

6

In sub-paragraph (1) references to the basic goods vehicle rate are to the rate applicable, by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 9, to a rigid goods vehicle which falls within column (3) of the table in that sub-paragraph and has a revenue weight exceeding 3,500 kilograms and not exceeding 7,500 kilograms.

7

Where an amount arrived at in accordance with sub-paragraph (1)(b) or (c) is an amount—

a

which is not a multiple of £10, and

b

which on division by ten does not produce a remainder of £5,

the rate is the amount arrived at rounded (either up or down) to the nearest amount which is a multiple of £10.

8

Where an amount arrived at in accordance with sub-paragraph (1)(b) or (c) is an amount which on division by ten produces a remainder of £5, the rate is the amount arrived at increased by £5.