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House of Commons

 
 

Notices of Amendments

 

given on

 

Friday 12 April 2013

 

For other Amendment(s) see the following page(s) of Supplement to Votes:

 

1113-15

 

Committee of the whole House


 

Finance (No. 2) Bill

 

(Clauses 1, 3, 16, 183, 184 and 200 to 212; Schedules 3 and 41; any new Clauses, and any new


 

Schedules, first appearing on the Order Paper not later than Tuesday 16 April 2013 and


 

relating to tax measures concerning housing; and any new Clauses, and any new Schedules,


 

relating to value added tax or the bank levy or air passenger duty or the subject matter of


 

Clauses 1 and 16 and Schedule 3 or the subject matter of Clause 3 or the subject matter of


 

Clauses 203 to 212 and Schedule 41)


 

(Subject to agreement of the Finance (No. 2) Bill Programme Motion)

 


 

Long haul rates of duty (Scotland)

 

Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil

 

Angus Robertson

 

Stewart Hosie

 

Mr Mike Weir

 

Pete Wishart

 

Dr Eilidh Whiteford

 

NC3

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘After section 30A of the Finance act 1994 there shall be inserted—

 

“30B  

Scotland long haul rates of duty

 

(1)    

This section applies to the carriage of a chargeable passenger if—

 

(a)    

the carriage begins on or after the relevant day,

 

(b)    

the only flight, or the first flight, of the passenger’s journey

 

begins at an airport or aerodrome in Scotland,

 

(c)    

the passenger’s journey does not end at an airport or aerodrome

 

in the United Kingdom or a territory specified in Part 1 of

 

Schedule 5A, and


 
 

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(d)    

if the passenger’s journey has more than one flight, the first flight

 

is not followed by a connected flight beginning at an airport or

 

aerodrome in the United Kingdom or a territory specified in Part

 

1 of Schedule 5a.

 

(2)    

Air passenger duty is chargeable on the carriage of the chargeable

 

passenger at the rate determined as follows.

 

(3)    

If the passenger’s journey ends at an airport or aerodrome in a territory

 

specified in Part 2 of Schedule 5A—

 

(a)    

if the passenger’s agreement for carriage provides for standard

 

class travel in relation to every flight on the passenger’s journey,

 

the rate is the rate set by an Act of the Scottish Parliament for the

 

purposes of this paragraph, and

 

(b)    

in any other case the rate if the rate set by an Act of the Scottish

 

Parliament for the purposes of this paragraph.

 

(4)    

If the passenger’s journey ends at an airport or aerodrome in a territory

 

specified in Part 3 of Schedule 5A—

 

(a)    

if the passenger’s agreement for carriage provides for standard

 

class travel in relation to every flight on the passenger’s journey,

 

the rate is the rate set by an Act of the Scottish Parliament for the

 

purposes of this paragraph, and

 

(b)    

in any other case, the rate is the rate set by an Act of the Scottish

 

Parliament for the purposes of this paragraph.

 

(5)    

If the passenger’s journey ends at any other airport or aerodrome—

 

(a)    

if the passenger’s agreement for carriage provides for standard

 

class travel in relation to every flight on the passenger’s journey,

 

the rate is the rate set by an Act of the Scottish Parliament for the

 

purposes of this paragraph, and

 

(b)    

in any other case, the rate is the rate set by an Act of the Scottish

 

Parliament for the purposes of this paragraph.

 

(6)    

The rate of £0 may be set for the purposes of any paragraph.

 

(7)    

The same rate may be set for the purposes of two or more paragraphs.

 

(8)    

Any rate set must not exceed the rate which would apply if this section

 

were not in force.

 

(9)    

Subsections (5) to (7) and (10) to (12) of section 30 apply for the purposes

 

of this section as they apply for the purposes of that section.

 

(10)    

“The relevant day” means the day appointed as such by an order.

 

(11)    

Section 42(4) and (5) does not apply to any order under subsection (10).

 

(12)    

An Act of the Scottish Parliament means an Act passed under section 28

 

of the Scotland Act 1998.”.’.

 


 
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