Citation and commencement

article 1 + 1.  This Order may be cited as The Free Zone (Customs Site No. 1 Thames) Designation (Amendment) Order 2024 and comes into force on 10th November 2024.

Amendment of the Free Zone (Customs Site No. 1 Thames) Designation Order 2021

article 2 + 2.—(1) The Free Zone (Customs Site No. 1 Thames) Designation Order 2021(2) is amended as follows.

(2) In article 1 (citation and interpretation), after paragraph (2)(e) insert—

“(f)“unauthorised activity” means an activity specified in regulation 3(2)(b)(v) or 3(2)(c) (authorisation requirement) of the Special Procedures Regulations(3) that is not carried out in accordance with an authorisation or approval under those Regulations”.

(3) For article 4 (appointment of responsible authority) substitute—

“Appointment of responsible authority

4.  The responsible authority for the free zone is DP World Logistics UK Ltd incorporated on 14th October 1983 with the company number 01761717, whose registered office is Unit 5 Logix Road, R D Park, Watling Street, Hinckley, Leicester shire, LW10 3BQ.”.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Free Zone (Customs Site No. 1 Thames) Designation Order (S.I. 2021/1432) (“the 2021 Order”). The amendments come into force on 10th November 2024.

These amendments insert a definition of “unauthorised activity” into article 1 of the 2021 Order, and substitute DP World Logistics UK Ltd as the responsible authority, in future, for the free zone designated by the 2021 Order (by substituting article 4 of that Order).

A Tax Information and Impact Note covering the Free Zones (Customs, Excise and Value Added Tax) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1156) was published on the website at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tax-information-and-impact-notes-tiins and remains an accurate summary of the impacts that apply to this instrument.