2012 No. 2393
Value Added Tax

The Value Added Tax (Refund of Tax to Chief Constables and the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis) Order 2012

Made
Laid before the House of Commons
Coming into force
The Treasury make the following Order in exercise of the power conferred by section 33(3)(k) of the Value Added Tax Act 19941.

1.

This Order may be cited as the Value Added Tax (Refund of Tax to Chief Constables and the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis) Order 2012 and comes into force on 15 November 2012:

2.

The following bodies are specified for the purposes of section 33 of the Value Added Tax Act 1994—

(a)

a chief constable established under section 2 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 20112,

(b)

the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis established under section 4 of that Act.

Michael Fabricant
James Duddridge
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides that the bodies named in article 2 are specified for the purposes of section 33 of the Value Added Tax Act 1994.

The effect of the Order is that those bodies are able to claim refunds of VAT charged on supplies to, or acquisitions or importations by, them if those supplies, acquisitions or importations are not for the purpose of a business carried on by them.

A Tax Information and Impact Note covering this instrument will be published on the HMRC website at http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/the library/tiins.htm.