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2002 No. 2693

CHANNEL TUNNEL

The Channel Tunnel (Alcoholic Liquor and Tobacco Products) (Amendment) Order 2002

  Made 28th October 2002 
  Laid before Parliament 29th October 2002 
  Coming into force 1st December 2002 

The Commissioners of Customs and Excise, it appearing to them necessary or expedient to do so, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 11 and 13 of the Channel Tunnel Act 1987[1] hereby make the following Order:

     1. This Order may be cited as the Channel Tunnel (Alcoholic Liquor and Tobacco Products) (Amendment) Order 2002 and comes into force on 1 December 2002.

    
2. The Channel Tunnel (Alcoholic Liquor and Tobacco Products) Order 2000[2] is amended as follows.

     3. Omit article 2.

    
4. Replace article 3 with - 

     5. In articles 4(1) and 5, substitute "goods in a control zone" for "shuttle train goods".

    
6. In article 5, substitute "goods in the United Kingdom" for "Community excise goods".

    
7. Insert after article 5 - 

     8. In article 6, omit paragraphs (a), (b), (d) and the word "and" at the end of paragraph (c).

    
9. In Schedule 1, replace everything that comes after the heading "Modifications to statutory instruments" as follows - 

     10. In Schedule 2 paragraph 1, substitute "goods in a control zone" for "shuttle train goods".

    
11. In Schedule 2 paragraph 2, substitute "are treated as being imported into the United Kingdom by virtue" for "constitute "shuttle train goods" for the purposes".



New King's Beam House, 22 Upper Ground, LONDON SE1 9PJ


M J Eland
Commissioner of Customs and Excise

28 October 2002



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


The Excise Duties (Personal Reliefs) (Revocation) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/2691) and the Excise Goods, Beer and Tobacco Products (Amendment) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2692) create new arrangements for individuals who acquire for their own use excise goods duty-paid in another member State and transport them to the United Kingdom.

This Order comes into force on 1 December 2002. It amends the Channel Tunnel (Alcoholic Liquor and Tobacco Products) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/426) to enable the new arrangements to apply (as did those they replace) to relevant alcohol and tobacco taken into a shuttle train control zone in France.


Notes:

[1] 1987 c. 53.back

[2] S.I. 2000/426.back

[3] S.I. 1992/3135, amended by S.I. 1993/1228, 1999/1278, 2001/1712, 2001/3022, 2002/501, 2002/2692.back

[4] S.I. 1993/1228, relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2002/2692.back

[5] S.I. 2001/1712, amended by S.I. 2002/2692.back

[6] 1979 c. 4.back

[7] 1979 c. 7.back



ISBN 0 11 042945 1


  Prepared 11 November 2002


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