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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 31 March 2012 - onwards

100A. Mineral oil tax on coal.

(1) In this section -

"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;

"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;

"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;

"household" means a premises used as a dwelling;

"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 1990 [OJ No. L293, 24.10.1990, p. 1] on the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community.

(2) Liability to mineral oil tax on coal shall arise at the time that coal is the subject of final delivery, and shall be paid by the person to whom it is delivered.