Statutory Instruments
2013 No. 3043
Statistics Of Trade
The Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) (Amendment) Regulations 2013
Made
4th December 2013
Laid before Parliament
5th December 2013
Coming into force
1st January 2014
The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs( 1 ) make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972( 2 ).
The Commissioners have been designated( 3 ) for the purposes of section 2(2) in relation to the receipt, regulation and control of statistics relating to the trading of goods between the United Kingdom and other Member States.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 and come into force on 1st January 2014.
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(3), for “£600,000” substitute “£1,200,000”.
(3) In regulation 4(3), for “£16,000,000” substitute “£24,000,000”.
Edward Troup
Nick Lodge
Two of the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs
4th December 2013
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.
1972 c. 68 ; section 2(2) has been amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7) .
S.I. 1992/2790 , amended by S.I. 2004/3284 , 2006/3216 , 2009/2974 , 2011/1043 and 2012/532 . There are other amending instruments but none is relevant.