division_name: Bail (Amendment) &#8212; New Clause 9 &#8212; Value Added Tax (Change of Rate) Order 2011
motion: <p pid="a.920.3/1" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8216;(1) The Chancellor of the Exchequer shall make an order under the powers conferred by sections 2(2) and 21(7) of the Value Added Tax Act 1994 that in section 2(1) of the Value Added Tax Act 1994 (rate of VAT), the rate of tax charged by virtue of that section shall be decreased by 12.5 per cent.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.920.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">(2) In section 21(4) (value of imported goods) of the Value Added Tax Act 1994 for &#8220;25&#8221; substitute &#8220;28.58&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.920.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">(3) This Order shall be known as The Value Added Tax (Change of Rate) Order 2011 and shall come into force on <phrase class="date" code="2011-08-30" pwmotiontext="yes">30 August 2011</phrase>.&#8217;.&#8212;<i>(Jonathan Edwards.)</i></p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a.920.3/4" pwmotiontext="yes">Brought up, and read the First time.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.920.3/5" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put, </i>That the clause be read a Second time.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a.920.3/6" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="a.920.3/7" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 10, Noes 293.</p>