Finance Act 1967



Finance Act 1967

1967 CHAPTER 54

An Act to grant certain duties, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to the National Debt and the Public Revenue, and to make further provision in connection with Finance.

[21st July 1967]

Most Gracious Sovereign,

We , your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary supplies to defray Your Majesty's public expenses, and making an addition to the public revenue, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the several duties hereinafter mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

I Customs and Excise

Part I

Customs and Excise

S-1 Termination of surcharge under Finance Act 1961 s. 9 and related increases in duties.

1 Termination of surcharge under Finance Act 1961 s. 9 and related increases in duties.

(1) As from 12th April 1967 or, in the case of the duties referred to in subsection (3) of this section, as from six o'clock in the evening on 11th April 1967, the adjustment of ten per cent. having effect under subsection (2) of section 9 of the Finance Act 1961 by virtue of the Surcharge on Revenue Duties Order 1966 shall no longer have effect in relation to the duties or taxes to which that Order applies or any drawback, rebate, allowance or other payments in connection with any of those duties or taxes; but—

(a ) the provisions of subsections (2) to (4) of this section shall have effect with a view to making in the rates of those duties and taxes increases which, taking into account international agreements and other relevant matters, are comparable to the amount of the adjustment aforesaid, together, in the case of goods to which certain of those duties relate, with a further amount towards offsetting in part the loss of revenue in connection with those goods resulting from the provisions of sections 4 and 5 of this Act; and

(b ) the period after which orders of the Treasury under the said section 9 may not be made or continue in force (which, by section 16 of the Finance Act 1966 , was extended until the end of August 1967) shall extend until the end of August 1968 or such later date as Parliament may hereafter determine.

(2) As from 12th April 1967, for the following provisions of the Finance Act 1964 , as amended by section 1(1) of the Finance Act 1965 , setting out rates of customs and excise duties and of drawback, namely—

(a ) Table 1 in Schedule 1 (spirits other than imported perfumed spirits);

(b ) Schedule 2 (beer);

(c ) Schedule 3 (wine);

(d ) Schedule 4 (British wine),

there shall be substituted the provisions set out in Schedules 1, 2, 3 and 4 respectively to this Act; but this subsection shall not affect the rates of drawback payable in the case of goods in respect of which duty has been paid otherwise than at the rates having effect by virtue of this subsection.

(3) As from six o'clock in the evening of 11th April 1967—

(a ) section 2 of the Finance (No. 2) Act 1964 (which provides for a duty of customs at the rate of three shillings and threepence a gallon to be charged on imported hydrocarbon oils and for a duty of excise at the same rate to be charged on hydrocarbon oils produced in the United Kingdom, on petrol substitutes, and on spirits used for making power methylated spirits) shall have effect with the substitution for the words ‘three shillings and threepence’ of the words ‘three shillings and sevenpence’;

(b ) the rate at which rebate of the customs or excise duty on hydrocarbon oils is allowed under section 199 of the Act of 1952 for heavy oils delivered for home use shall in all cases be a rate 2.2 pence a gallon less than the rate at which the duty in question is for the time being chargeable;

(c ) section 6(4) of the Finance Act 1964 (which provides in certain cases where light oils charged with the customs or excise duty on hydrocarbon oils are delivered for home use as furnace fuel for a rebate of duty at a rate twopence a gallon less than the rate at which the duty is charged) shall have effect with the substitution for the word ‘twopence’ of the words ‘2.2 pence’;

(d ) subsection (2) of section 92 of the Finance Act 1965 (which provides that the amount of a grant under subsection (1) of that section by the Minister of Transport to the operator of a bus service towards defraying customs or excise duties charged on bus fuel shall not exceed sixpence for every gallon of fuel used or estimated to have been used in operating the bus service during the period to which the grant relates) and section 1(1)(b ) of the Bus Fuel Grants Act 1966 (which amends the said subsection (2)) shall have effect as if for any reference therein to sixpence there were substituted a reference to tenpence, and so much of subsection (9) of the said section 92 as enables the Parliament of Northern Ireland to make laws for purposes similar to the purposes of the provisions of that section shall apply to those provisions as amended by this paragraph.

(4) As from 12th April 1967, Schedule 1 to the Purchase Tax Act 1963 shall have effect with the substitution for any reference to 10 per cent., 15 per cent. or 25 per cent. of a reference respectively to 11 per cent., 1612 per cent. or 2712 per cent.

(5) The provisions of Schedule 5 to this Act shall have effect for the purpose of—

(a ) revising the definition of light oils for the purposes of the duties on hydrocarbon oils; and

(b ) making certain amendments as respects drawback, remission, or repayment of duty on beer.

S-2 Provisions as to continental shelf.

2 Provisions as to continental shelf.

(1) Any goods brought into the United Kingdom which are shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioners to have been grown, produced or manufactured in any area for the time being designated under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964 and to have been so brought direct from that area shall be deemed for the purposes of any charge to duty under the Import Duties Act 1958 not to be imported.

(2) The Board of Trade may by regulations prescribe cases in which, with a view to exempting any goods from any duty, or charging any goods with duty at a reduced or preferential rate, under any of the enactments relating to duties of customs the continental shelf of any country prescribed by the regulations, or of any country of a class of countries so prescribed, shall be treated for the purposes of such of those enactments or of any instruments made thereunder as may be so prescribed as if that shelf formed part of that country and any goods brought from that shelf were consigned from that country; and in this subsection the expression ‘continental shelf’, in relation to any country, means—

(a ) if that country is the United Kingdom, any area for the time being designated as aforesaid;

(b ) in any other case, the seabed and sub-soil of the submarine areas adjacent to the coast, but outside the seaward limits of the territorial waters, of that country over which the exercise by that country of sovereign rights in accordance with international law is recognised or authorised by Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom.

(3) Any regulations under subsection (2) of this section shall be made by statutory instrument and be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the Commons House of Parliament.

(4) Anything required or authorised by or under subsections (2) and (3) of this section to be done by, to or before the Board of Trade may be done by, to or before the President of the Board, any Minister of State with duties concerning the affairs of the Board, any secretary, under-secretary or assistant secretary of the Board, or any person authorised in that behalf by the President.

S-3 Disclosure of information by Commissioners.

3 Disclosure of information by Commissioners.

(1) On being notified at any time by the Secretary of State that he is satisfied that it is in the national interest that the information in question should be disclosed to persons other than the Commissioners, the Commissioners may disclose through such person as may be specified in the notification such information to which this section applies in respect of imported goods of such descriptions as may be so specified.

(2) The information to which this section applies is information contained in any document with which the Commissioners have been provided after 7th March 1967 in pursuance of the Act of 1952 for the purpose of making entry of any goods on their importation, being information of the following descriptions only, namely—

(a ) the description of the goods, including any maker's catalogue number;

(b ) the quantities of the goods imported in a particular period, so, however, that if any quantity is given by value it shall not also be given in any other form;

(c ) the name of the maker of the goods;

(d ) the country of origin of the goods;

(e ) the country from which the goods were consigned.

(3) The Secretary of State may by order add to the descriptions of information to which this section applies any further description of information contained in any document such as is mentioned in subsection (2) of this section other than the price of the goods or the name of the importer of the goods; and any such order shall be made by statutory instrument and—

(a ) may vary or...

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