Finance Act 2005
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Amendment of section 94 (interpretation) of Finance Act 1999. |
65.— Section 94 of the Finance Act 1999 is amended— | |
(a) in subsection (1): | ||
(i) by substituting the following definition for the definition of “authorised warehousekeeper”: | ||
“ ‘authorised warehousekeeper’ means a person authorised by the Commissioners under section 109 of the Finance Act 2001 to produce, process, hold, receive or dispatch mineral oil under a suspension arrangement;”, | ||
(ii) by inserting the following definitions after the definition of “biomass”: | ||
“ ‘business use’, subject to Article 11 of the Directive, means use by a business entity which independently carries out, in any place, the supply of goods and services; | ||
‘charitable organisation’ means any body of persons or trust established for charitable purposes; | ||
‘coal’ includes lignite and solid fuels manufactured from coal or lignite;”, | ||
(iii) by substituting the following definition for the definition of “the Directive”: | ||
“ ‘the Directive’ means Council Directive No. 2003/96/EC of 27 October 20031 ;”, | ||
(iv) by inserting the following definition after the definition of “the Directive”: | ||
“ ‘dual use’ means use both as a heating fuel and for purposes other than as a motor fuel and heating fuel and includes use for chemical reduction and in electrolytic and metallurgical processes;”, | ||
(v) by inserting the following definition after the definition of “dumper”: | ||
“ ‘energy intensive business’ means any business entity where either the purchases of energy products and electricity amount to at least 3 per cent of the production value, or the mineral oil tax payable amounts to at least 0.5 per cent of the added value;”, | ||
(vi) by inserting the following definition after the definition of “glasshouse”: | ||
“ ‘greenhouse gas emissions permit’ has the meaning assigned to it by Article 2(1) of the European Communities (Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading) Regulations 2004 ( S.I. No. 437 of 2004 );”, | ||
(vii) by inserting the following definition after the definition of “horticultural producer”: | ||
“ ‘household’ means a premises used as a dwelling;”, | ||
(viii) by substituting the following definition for the definition of “mineral oil”: | ||
“ ‘mineral oil’ means hydrocarbon oil, liquefied petroleum gas, substitute fuel, coal and additives;”, | ||
(ix) by inserting the following definition after the definition of “mineral oil”: | ||
“ ‘mineralogical process’ means a process classified in the NACE nomenclature under code DI 26 ‘manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products’ in Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3037/90 of 9 October 19902 on the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community;”, | ||
and | ||
(x) by substituting the following definition for the definition of “tax warehouse”: | ||
“ ‘tax warehouse’ means a premises or place approved by the Commissioners under section 109 of the Finance Act 2001 where mineral oil is produced, processed, held, received or dispatched under a suspension arrangement by an authorised warehousekeeper in the course of business;”, | ||
(b) by inserting the following subsections after subsection (2): | ||
“(3) A word or expression that is used in this Chapter and which is also used in Part 2 of the Finance Act 2001 has, unless a meaning is assigned to it by subsection (1) or (2) or the contrary intention otherwise appears, the same meaning in this Chapter as it has in that Part. | ||
(4) A word or expression that is used in this Chapter and which is also used in the Directive has, unless a meaning is assigned to it by subsection (1), (2) or (3) or the contrary intention otherwise appears, the same meaning in this Chapter as it has in the Directive.”. | ||