The Double Taxation Relief (Air Transport) (Hong Kong) Order 1998

Made: 21st October 1998

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 21st day of October 1998 Present, The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 788 of the said Act, and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

1

This Order may be cited as the Double Taxation Relief (Air Transport) (Hong Kong) Order 1998.

2

It is hereby declared—

• (a) that the arrangements specified in the Article set out in the Schedule to this Order have been made with the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China with a view to affording relief from double taxation in relation to income tax and corporation tax and taxes of a similar character imposed by the laws of Hong Kong; and

• (b) that it is expedient that those arrangements should have effect.

SCHEDULE — RELIEF FROM DOUBLE TAXATION

Signed

N. H. Nicholls — Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Under Article 14 of the Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China concerning Air Services, which Article is scheduled to this Order, income or profits derived from the business of international air transport by an airline of the United Kingdom or the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, which are subject to tax in the area of one of the Contracting Parties, shall be exempt from tax in the area of the other Contracting Party.

The Article will enter into force when each Contracting Party has notified the other of the completion of its legislative procedures required by law to bring it into force. The Article will then have effect in the United Kingdom from 1st April 1998 in respect of corporation tax and from 6th April 1998 in respect of income tax. The date of entry into force will in due course be published in the London, Edinburgh, and Belfast Gazettes.

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