Statutory Instruments
2004 No. 2064
CUSTOMS AND EXCISE
The Excise Warehousing (Energy Products) Regulations 2004cross-notes
Made
6th August 2004
Laid before Parliament
10th August 2004
Coming into force
1st September 2004
M1,M2The Commissioners of Customs and Excise, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 93, 100G(1) and 100H(1)(b), (c), (d), (g), (k) and (m) and (2) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 and sections 21(1), (2) and (2A) and 23C(2) and (3) and paragraphs 3, 11, 19 and 25 of Schedule 3 of the Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979 , hereby make the following Regulations:
Citation and commencementcross-notes
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Excise Warehousing (Energy Products) Regulations 2004 and come into force on 1st September 2004.
Interpretationcross-notes
2. In these Regulations—
“duty” means any duty of excise;
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“the Oil Act” means the Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979;
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F2...
“special energy product” means a substance that is—
petroleum gas,
animal fat set aside for use as motor fuel or heating fuel,
vegetable fat set aside for use as motor fuel or heating fuel,
non-synthetic methanol set aside for use as motor fuel or heating fuel,
F3biodiesel, ...
a mixture of two or more substances specified in paragraphs (a) to (e) [F4, orF4]
[F5aqua methanol.F5]
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Community importscross-notes
F63. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Voluntary warehousingcross-notes
4.Special energy product that is not chargeable with duty under the Oil Act may be warehoused in an excise warehouse as if it were a substance chargeable with duty.
Treatment of warehoused special energy productscross-notes
F75.—(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F8(2)Special energy product that is warehoused ... shall be treated, from the time that it is put in the excise warehouse until the relevant time, for all the purposes of the customs and excise Acts, as charged with duty under the Oil Act as set out in paragraph (3).
F9(3)Special energy product to which paragraph ... (2) applies shall be treated as follows—
(a)M3biodiesel shall be treated as charged by section 6AA(1) of the Oil Act (biodiesel);
[F10(aa)aqua methanol shall be treated as charged by section 6AG of the Oil Act (aqua methanol);F10]
(b)M4vegetable fat, animal fat and non-synthetic methanol shall be treated as charged by section 6A(2) of the Oil Act (other fuel substitutes);
(c)petroleum gas shall be treated as charged by section 8(2) of the Oil Act (road fuel gas).
(4) In this regulation, “the relevant time”is the earlier of—
(a)the time that the special energy product is charged with duty under the Oil Act;
(b)the time that the special energy product is removed from an excise warehouse for home use;
F11(c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(d)the time that the special energy product reaches its ultimate destination outside the United Kingdom.
Distance sales of special energy products
F126. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Amendment to other warehousing regulations
F137. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
MW Norgrove
Commissioner of Customs and Excise
New King’s Beam House 22 Upper Ground London SE1 9PJ