Statutory Instruments
1995 No. 653

VALUE ADDED TAX
The Value Added Tax (Transport) Order 1995

Made
8th March 1995

Laid before the House of Commons
9th March 1995

Coming into force
1st April 1995

The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 30(4) 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 (Transport) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 1st April 1995.

2.  Group 8 (Transport) of Schedule 8 to the Value Added Tax Act 1994 shall be amended in accordance with articles 3 to 6 of this Order.

3.  After item 6 there shall be inserted —

“6A.  Air navigation services.”

4.  In paragraph (b) of item 11 after the words “of item 6,” there shall be inserted —

“item 6A,.”

5.  After Note (6) there shall be inserted —

“(6A) “Air navigation services” has the same meaning as in the Civil Aviation Act 1982(2).”

6.  In Note (7) after the words “of item 6,” there shall be inserted —

“item 6A,.”

Tim Wood
Timothy Kirkhope
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
8th March 1995

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order varies, with effect from 1st April 1995, Group 8 of Schedule 8 to the Value Added Tax Act 1994. Its effect is to provide for zero-rating of air navigation services, as defined in the Civil Aviation Act 1982, when they are supplied in respect of aircraft which are of a description zero-rated under item 2 of that Group or to a person who receives them for the purpose of a business carried on by him and who belongs outside the United Kingdom.


(1)
1994 c. 23.

(2)
1982 c. 16. Air navigation services are defined in section 105(1).