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<Number>2012 No. 2953</Number>
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<Title>Value Added Tax</Title>
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<Title>The Value Added Tax (Removal of Goods) (Amendment) Order 2012</Title>
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<Text>Made</Text>
<DateText>26th November 2012</DateText>
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<Text>Laid before the House of Commons</Text>
<DateText>27th November 2012</DateText>
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<DateText>1st January 2013</DateText>
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<Text>The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 5(3) of the Value Added Tax Act 1994<FootnoteRef Ref="f00001"/>, make the following Order:</Text></Para>
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<Text>This Order may be cited as the Value Added Tax (Removal of Goods) (Amendment) Order 2012 and comes into force on 1st January 2013.</Text>
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<Title>Amendment of the Value Added Tax (Removal of Goods) Order 1992</Title>
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<Text>In article 4—</Text>
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<P3para><Text>where—</Text>
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<PersonName>Anne Milton</PersonName>
<PersonName>Desmond Swayne</PersonName>
<JobTitle>Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury</JobTitle>
<DateSigned Date="2012-11-26"><DateText>26th November 2012</DateText></DateSigned>
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<Title>EXPLANATORY NOTE</Title>
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<P><Text Hanging="indented">This Order amends the Value Added Tax (Removal of Goods) Order 1992 (<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1992/3111" id="c00001" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1992" Number="3111"><Acronym Expansion="Statutory Instrument">S.I.</Acronym> 1992/3111</Citation>) (“the Order”).</Text></P>
<P><Text Hanging="indented">Article 3 amends article 4 of the Order to: (1) remove some redundant provisions and (2) make it clear that, in cases covered by paragraph (e), the goods have to be returned to the owner in the member State of dispatch after they are valued or work is carried out on them in the member State to which they have been removed, as required by Article 6 of Council Directive <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/european/directive/1995/0007" id="c00002" Class="EuropeanUnionDirective" Year="1995" Number="7">95/7/<Acronym Expansion="European Community">EC</Acronym></Citation> of 10 April 1995 amending Directive <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/european/directive/1977/0388" id="c00003" Class="EuropeanEconomicCommunityDirective" Year="1977" Number="388">77/388/<Acronym Expansion="European Economic Community">EEC</Acronym></Citation> (<Acronym Expansion="Official Journal">OJ</Acronym> L 102 p. 18).</Text></P>
<P><Text Hanging="indented">A Tax Information and Impact Note covering this instrument will be published on the <Acronym Expansion="Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs">HMRC</Acronym> website at <ExternalLink URI="http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/thelibrary/tiins/htm" id="i00004">http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/thelibrary/tiins/htm</ExternalLink>.</Text></P>
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<Para><Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1994/23" id="c00004" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="1994" Number="0023">1994 c. 23</Citation>.</Text></Para>
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<Para><Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1992/3111" id="c00005" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1992" Number="3111">S.I. 1992/3111</Citation>.</Text></Para>
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