INCOME TAX Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Income Tax (Sub-contractors in the Construction Industry) (Amendment) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 6th April 1993. Interpretation 2 In these Regulations “the Principal Regulations ” means the Income Tax (Sub-contractors in the Construction Industry) Regulations 1975 and “Regulation” means a regulation of those Regulations. Amendments to the Principal Regulations 3 After Regulation 7B there shall be inserted— Interest on amounts overdue 7C 1 Subject to paragraph (2), where in relation to the year ended 5th April 1993 or any subsequent year, a contractor has not within 14 days after the end of a year paid to the Collector the total amount which he is liable under these Regulations so to pay, the amount remaining unpaid shall carry interest at the prescribed rate from the reckonable date until payment. 2 Paragraph (1) above shall not apply to any amount in respect of which a direction under Regulation 7B(2) or (3) has been made. 3 In this Regulation “the prescribed rate” means the rate applicable under section 178 of the Finance Act 1989 for the purposes of section 86 of the Taxes Management Act 1970 ; and where that rate changes on an operative date within the meaning given by Regulation 2 of the Taxes (Interest Rate) Regulations 1989 by virtue of those Regulations, the change shall have effect for periods beginning on or after the operative date in relation to interest running from before that date as well as from or from after that date. 4 In this Regulation “the reckonable date”, in relation to any year, means the 14th day after the end of that year. 5 The amount payable to which paragraph (1) of this Regulation applies shall carry interest from the reckonable date even if that date is a non-business day within the meaning of section 92 of the Bills of Exchange Act 1882 . 6 Interest payable under this Regulation shall be recoverable as if it were an amount which a contractor is liable under Regulation 7 or 7A to pay to the Collector. 7 A certificate of the Collector that any amount of interest payable under this Regulation has not been paid to him, or, to the best of his knowledge and belief, to any other Collector or to any person acting on his behalf or on behalf of another Collector, shall be sufficient evidence that the sum mentioned in the certificate is unpaid and due to the Crown. 8 Any document purporting to be a certificate within paragraph (7) shall be deemed to be such a certificate until the contrary is proved. Interest on amounts overpaid 7D 1 Where an amount paid under these Regulations in respect of the year ended 5th April 1993 or any subsequent year is repaid to a contractor in the circumstances specified in paragraph (2), the amount repaid shall carry interest at the prescribed rate from the relevant time until the order for the repayment is issued. 2 The circumstances specified in this paragraph are where the amount is repaid— a after the end of the year following that in respect of which the amount was paid, and b after the end of the year in which the amount was paid. 3 In this Regulation “the prescribed rate” means the rate applicable under section 178 of the Finance Act 1989 for the purposes of section 824 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 ; and where that rate changes on an operative date within the meaning given by Regulation 2 of the Taxes (Interest Rate) Regulations 1989 by virtue of those Regulations, the change shall have effect for periods beginning on or after the operative date in relation to interest running from before that date as well as from after that date. 4 In this Regulation “the relevant time” means— a in the case of a repayment of an amount which was paid more than twelve months after the end of the year in respect of which the payment was made, the end of the year in which that amount was paid; and b in any other case, the end of the year after the year in respect of which the payment was made. . 4 In Regulation 12A of the Principal Regulations , in paragraph (1), there shall be inserted after the words “19th April 1988” the words “for a year not later than the year ended on 5th April 1992”. L. J. H. Beighton C. W. Corlett Two of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue 16th March 1993