Section 42 | Liability to register: producers

(1)A person (“the producer”) who produces chargeable soft drinks becomes liable to be registered—

(a)at the end of any month, if the qualifying amount of the producer's chargeable soft drinks in respect of which a chargeable event within section 32 has occurred during the immediately preceding period of 12 months exceeds the small producer threshold;

(b)on any day, if there are reasonable grounds for believing that the qualifying amount of the producer's chargeable soft drinks in respect of which a chargeable event within section 32 will occur during the period of 30 days beginning with that day will exceed the small producer threshold.

(2)The “qualifying amount” of chargeable soft drinks in respect of which a chargeable event occurs is the aggregate of—

(a)the amount of the chargeable soft drinks within section 26(1)(a) in respect of which the chargeable event occurs, and

(b)the amount of prepared drink that would result from the chargeable soft drinks within section 26(1)(b) in respect of which the chargeable event occurs.

(3)Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to a person who is already registrable.

(4)References in this section to “the producer's chargeable soft drinks” are references to chargeable soft drinks produced by the producer or a person connected with the producer.