2013 No. 430
Value Added Tax

The Value Added Tax (Reduced Rate) (Cable-Suspended Passenger Transport Systems) Order 2013

Made
Laid before the House of Commons
Coming into force
The Treasury make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 29A and 96(9) of the Value Added Tax Act 19941.

Citation and commencement1.

This Order may be cited as the Value Added Tax (Reduced Rate) (Cable-Suspended Passenger Transport Systems) Order 2013 and comes into force on 1st April 2013.

Amendment of Schedule 7A to the Value Added Tax Act 19942.

(1)

Schedule 7A to the Value Added Tax Act 1994 (charge at reduced rate)2 is amended as follows.

(2)

In Part 1 (index to reduced-rate supplies of goods and services), at the appropriate place insert—

“Cable-suspended passenger transport systems……………………

Group 13”.

(3)

In Part 2 (the groups), at the end insert—

“GROUP 13CABLE-SUSPENDED PASSENGER TRANSPORT SYSTEMS

Item No.

1.

Transport of passengers by means of a cable-suspended chair, bar, gondola or similar vehicle designed or adapted to carry not more than 9 passengers.

NOTES:

Supplies not within item 1

1.

Item 1 does not include the transport of passengers to, from or within—

(i)

a place of entertainment, recreation or amusement; or

(ii)

a place of cultural, scientific, historical or similar interest,

by the person, or a person connected with that person, who supplies a right of admission to, or a right to use facilities at, such a place.

2.

For the purposes of Note 1 any question as to whether a person is connected with another shall be determined in accordance with section 1122 of the Corporation Tax Act 20103.”.
Stephen Crabb
Robert Goodwill
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order inserts a new Group 13 into Schedule 7A to the Value Added Tax Act 1994 (charge at reduced rate) to provide for a reduced rate for the transport of passengers by means of certain cable-suspended vehicles designed or adapted to carry not more than 9 passengers provided that the transport is not supplied to, from or within a specified place by a person (or a person connected with that person) who supplies a right of admission to, or a right to use facilities at, that place.

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