The Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/2864
• Sections: 9

Section 1

These Regulations may be cited as the Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st January 1998.

Section 2

The Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) Regulations 1992 shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 7 below.

Section 3

In regulation 1(2) the following definitions shall be omitted —

(a) “ancillary costs sample survey”;

(b) “business day”;

(c) “commodity code”; and

(d) “supplementary units”.

Section 4

In regulation 3(1) for “£195,000”, in each place where it occurs, there shall be substituted “£225,000”.

Section 5

Regulation 4A shall be omitted .

Section 6

(1) Regulation 5(1) shall be amended as follows—

(a) in paragraph (a), the words “and every return for the purposes of an ancillary costs sample survey” shall be omitted ;

(b) in paragraph (b), for the words “the documents mentioned in paragraph (a) above” there shall be substituted “his periodic declarations” ;

(c) in paragraph (c), for the words “any such copies as are” there shall be substituted “periodic declarations and documents” ; and

(d) in paragraph (d), for the words “further copies of, or of extracts from, those copies” there shall be substituted “copies or extracts of those periodic declarations and documents” .

(2) In regulation 5(2), for the words “the copies” there shall be substituted “periodic declarations and documents” .

Section 7

Regulation 6 shall be amended as follows—

(a) paragraph (5A) shall be omitted ; and

(b) in paragraph (6), the words “or (5A)” shall be omitted .

Section 8

Regulations 3 to 6 of the Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) (Amendment) Regulations 1993 are hereby revoked.

Section 9

The Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 are hereby revoked.