Section 171 — Finance Act 2014: Appointment of UK representative

Appointment of UK representative 171 1 The Commissioners may by notice given to a registrable person require the person to appoint a United Kingdom representative.

2 The representative must be a person approved by the Commissioners for the purposes of this section.

3 The Commissioners may give such a notice only if they consider that the registrable person usually lives in or, if a body corporate, is legally constituted in a country or territory with which the United Kingdom does not have satisfactory arrangements for the enforcement of liabilities.

4 The notice must specify the date by which the representative must be appointed.

5 That date must not be less than 30 days after the date when the notice was given (and must not be before 1 December 2014).

6 It is for the registrable person to decide whether the representative is to have responsibility—

a for making returns in respect of general betting duty, pool betting duty or remote gaming duty on behalf of the registrable person, or b for making such returns and for discharging the registrable person's liability to general betting duty, pool betting duty or remote gaming duty.

7 The notice may be combined with a notice under section 170, and in such a case any requirement contained in the notice under that section ceases to have effect if the registrable person appoints a representative with the responsibilities mentioned in subsection (6)(b).

8 Any requirement imposed by the notice has no effect at any time when—

a the registrable person is entitled under Chapter 2 of Part 1 of FA 1994 to require a review of, or to bring an appeal against, the decision to give the notice, b an appeal may ordinarily be brought against a decision on such a review or appeal, or c proceedings on such a review, appeal or further appeal are in progress.