2002 No. 1173
VALUE ADDED TAX

The Value Added Tax (Transport) Order 2002

Made
Laid before the House of Commons
Coming into force
The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 30(4) and 96(9) of the Value Added Tax Act 19941, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

1.

This Order may be cited as the Value Added Tax (Transport) Order 2002 and comes into force on 1st June 2002.

2.

In Group 82 (Transport) of Schedule 8 to the Value Added Tax Act 1994 (zero rating)—

(a)

for paragraph (b) of item 6 substitute—

“(b)

the handling or storage—

(i)

in a port,

(ii)

on land adjacent to a port,

(iii)

in a customs and excise airport, or

(iv)

in a transit shed,

of goods carried in a ship or aircraft.”.

(b)

in Note (6), for “and “customs and excise airport”” substitute “,“customs and excise airport” and “transit shed””.

Tony McNulty,
Anne McGuire,
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, which comes into force on 1st June 2002, amends Group 8 of Schedule 8 to the Value Added Tax Act 1994 (c. 23).

Services provided for the handling or storage of goods carried in a ship or aircraft are zero-rated if they are supplied in an airport, in a port or on land adjacent to a port. This Order also zero-rates such services if they are supplied in a place which has been approved by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise for the storage of goods in temporary storage (a transit shed), no matter where that place is located. (“Goods in temporary storage” are goods which have been presented to Customs but have not been assigned a customs-approved treatment or use).