Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910

Exemptions and allowances in respect of the duty on motor spirit.

85.(1) Any person using motor spirit for purposes other than supplying motive power for motor cars shall be entitled, in accordance with the provisions of this section, to an allowance or repayment of the duty paid in respect of the motor spirit under this Act, and any person using motor spirit for any of the purposes mentioned in Part I. of the Fifth Schedule to this Act shall be entitled, in accordance with the provisions of this section, to an allowance or repayment of half the amount of the duty paid under this Act in respect of the spirit:

Provided that a person using motor spirit before the first day of January nineteen hundred and ten for any of the purposes mentioned in Part I. of the Fifth Schedule to this Act, shall be entitled, in accordance with the provisions of this section, to an allowance or repayment of the whole amount of any duty paid under this Act in respect of the spirit so used.

(2) Motor spirit may be delivered without payment of duty or on the payment of half the amount of the full duty payable, in such cases as the Commissioners may approve, and subject to such conditions as to proof, security, and otherwise, as the Commissioners may impose for the purpose of protecting the revenue.

(3) If any person proves to the satisfaction of the Commissioners that he has within the previous six months used any quantity exceeding five gallons of spirit which is motor spirit within the meaning of this Act, for purposes other than supplying motive power for motor cars, or in other circumstances entitling him to the repayment of the full amount of duty in respect of the spirit, he shall be entitled to obtain from the Commissioners a repayment of any duty which has been paid in respect of the spirit, and if any person proves to the satisfaction of the Commissioners that he has within the previous six months used any quantity exceeding five gallons of motor spirit for the purposes mentioned in Part I. of the Fifth Schedule to this Act, and that the full duty has been paid upon the spirit so used, he shall be entitled to obtain from the Commissioners a repayment of half the amount of duty so paid.