The Customs Duty (Personal Reliefs) (Amendment) Order 1989

Statutory Instruments

1989 No. 2252

CUSTOMS AND EXCISE

The Customs Duty (Personal Reliefs) (Amendment) Order 1989

Made

4th December 1989

Laid before the House of Commons

11th December 1989

Coming into force

1st January 1990

The Commissioners of Customs and Excise in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 13 of the Customs and Excise Duties (General Reliefs) Act 1979(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf hereby make the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Customs Duty (Personal Reliefs) (Amendment) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 1st January 1990.

2.  In paragraph (a) (4) of Schedule 1 to the Customs Duty (Personal Reliefs) (No. 1) Order 1968(2), for “£250” there shall be substituted “£265”.

Philip Nash

Commissioner of Customs and Excise

New King’s Beam House 22 Upper Ground London SE1 9PJ

4th December 1989

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

With effect from 1st January 1990, this Order increases the allowance for goods other than alcohol, tobacco etc. obtained by travellers, duty and tax-paid in the EEC, from £250 to £265.

Council Directive 69/169/EEC (OJ No. L133, 4.6.69, p.6 (OJ/SE (I) p232)) lays down the basic structure of travellers' allowances. As amended by Council Directives 78/1032/EEC (OJ No. L366, 28.12.78, p.28) and 85/348/EEC (OJ No. L183, 16.7.85, p.24), it provides that the ECU rates applicable to travellers' allowance shall be revalorised in national currencies each year on the first working day of October and implemented with effect from 1st January of the following year.

The new limit results from the combined effect of the revalorisation of October 1989 and an increase to the travellers' allowance for goods other than alcohol, tobacco etc. obtained duty and tax-paid in the EEC under the provisions of Council Directive 69/169/EEC as amended by Council Directive 88/664/EEC (OJ No. L382, 31.12.88, p.41).

(1)

1979 c. 3; section 13 was amended by the Finance Act 1984 (c. 439, section 15; sectio 18 applies the definitio of “the Commissioners” in section 1(1) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (c. 2).

(2)

S.I. 1968/1558; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1978/1883, 1984/718, 1985/1375, 1986/2105.