Statutory Instruments
2001 No. 753
VALUE ADDED TAX
The Value Added Tax (Passenger Vehicles) Order 2001
Made
7th March 2001
Laid before the House of Commons
7th March 2001
Coming into force
1st April 2001
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 (Passenger Vehicles) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001 and shall have effect in relation to supplies made on or after that date.
2. In paragraph (a) of item 4 of Group 8( 2 ) (Transport) of Schedule 8 to the Value Added Tax Act 1994 (zero rating) for “12” there shall be substituted “10”.
3. After Note (4C) there shall be inserted—
“ (4D) Item 4(a) includes the transport of passengers in a vehicle—
(a) which is designed, or substantially and permanently adapted, for the safe carriage of a person in a wheelchair or two or more such persons, and
(b) which, if it were not so designed or adapted, would be capable of carrying no less than 10 persons. ” .
Jim Dowd
Greg Pope
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
7th March 2001