Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 503
VALUE ADDED TAX
The Value Added Tax (Drugs, Medicines, Aids for the Handicapped and Charities Etc) Order 2000
Made
29th February 2000
Laid before the House of Commons
1st March 2000
Coming into force
1st April 2000
The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 30(4) and 96(9) of the Value Added Tax Act 1994( 1 ) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Value Added Tax (Drugs, Medicines, Aids for the Handicapped and Charities Etc) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st April 2000 in relation to supplies made on or after that date.
2. Schedule 8 to the Value Added Tax Act 1994(zero-rating) shall be amended in accordance with Articles 3 and 4 below.
3. Note (5H) in Group 12 (supplies of drugs, medicines, aids for the handicapped, etc )( 2 ) shall be amended by inserting after paragraph (e) the following–
“ (ea) a Primary Care Trust established under section 16A of the National Health Service Act 1977 ( 3 ) ; ” .
4. Note (4) in Group 15 (charities etc)( 4 ) shall be amended by adding after paragraph (i) the following–
“ (j) a Primary Care Trust established under section 16A of the National Health Service Act 1977 ” .
Clive Betts
Greg Pope
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
29th February 2000
1977 c. 49 ; section 16A of the National Health Service Act 1977 was inserted by section 2(1) of the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) .
Group 15 was amended by paragraph 127 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) and sections 33 and 34 of the Finance Act 1997 (c. 16) .