Statutory Instruments
2008 No. 2847
Statistics Of Trade
The Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2008
Made
3rd November 2008
Laid before Parliament
4th November 2008
Coming into force
1st January 2009
The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs( 1 ) are the department designated( 2 ) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972( 3 ) in relation to measures relating to the receipt, regulation and control of statistics relating to the trading of goods between the United Kingdom and other Member States, and in the exercise of the powers conferred by that section they make the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 and shall come into force on 1st January 2009.
Amendment of the Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) Regulations 1992
2. —(1) The Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) Regulations 1992( 4 ) are amended as follows:
(2) In regulation 3(2), for “£260,000” substitute “£270,000”.
(3) In regulation 4(2), for “£14,500,000” substitute “£16,000,000”.
Dave Hartnett
Bernadette Kenny
Two of the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs
3rd November 2008
The functions of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise were transferred to the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs by section 5 of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c.11) . Section 50(1) of that Act provides that a reference to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise shall be taken as a reference to the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.
By article 2 of and the Schedule to the European Communities (Designation) Order 1992, S.I. 1992/707 .
S.I. 1992/2790 ; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2004/3284 and S.I. 2006/3216 .