Transport Act 1962

Miscellaneous

41 Exemptions from stamp duty

(1) Nothing in section twelve of the Finance Act, 1895 (which requires Acts to be stamped as conveyances on sale in certain cases), or in section fifty-two of the Finance Act, 1946 (which exempts from stamp duty certain documents connected with nationalisation schemes), shall be taken as applying to this Act.

(2) Stamp duty shall not be chargeable under section one hundred and twelve of the Stamp Act, 1891, in respect of—

(a) the amount which is to form the nominal share capital of the Hotel Company, or

(b) any increase in the nominal share capital of that company,

to the extent to which it is certified to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue by the Commission or the Railways Board that the said capital, or, in the case of any increase, the said capital as so increased, does not exceed the total value of the assets less liabilities to be transferred to that company in pursuance of section thirty-three of this Act.

(3) Stamp duty shall not be chargeable on any instrument which is certified to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue by the Commission or any of the Boards as having been made or executed in pursuance of section thirty-three of this Act or paragraph 1 of the Sixth Schedule to this Act:

Provided that no such instrument shall be deemed to be duly stamped unless either it is stamped with the duty to which it would but for this subsection be liable or it has, in accordance with the provisions of section twelve of the Stamp Act, 1891, been stamped with a particular stamp denoting that it is not chargeable with any duty or that it is duly stamped.

(4) If before the vesting date the Commission cause any company limited by shares to be formed under the Companies Act, 1948, and any assets to be transferred to that company, for the purpose of facilitating the transfers to be effected by this Part of this Act—

(a) stamp duty shall not be chargeable under section one hundred and twelve of the Stamp Act, 1891, in respect of the amount which is to form the nominal share capital of the company, if it is certified to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue by the Commission that the company is formed for the purpose mentioned in this subsection and that the said amount does not exceed the total value of the assets less liabilities to be transferred to the company; and

(b) stamp duty shall not be chargeable on any instrument which is certified to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue by the Commission as having been made for effecting any transfer of assets for the purpose mentioned in this subsection:

Provided that no such instrument as is mentioned in paragraph (b) of this subsection shall be deemed to be duly stamped unless it is stamped with the duty to which it would but for this subsection be liable or it has, in accordance with the provisions of section twelve of the Stamp Act, 1891, been stamped with a particular stamp denoting that it is not chargeable with any duty or that it is duly stamped.

42 Income tax: provisions for determining capital allowances for the Boards

(1) Subject to this section, Part X and Part XI of the Income Tax Act, 1952 (which confer relief from income tax in respect of certain capital expenditure), shall apply as if—

(a) all the assets which under and in pursuance of this Part of this Act are respectively transferred to the Boards had been sold to them by the Commission on the vesting date in the open market at prices equal to the net book values of those assets (that is to say the values after deducting any provision for maintenance equalisation and for any form of depreciation) as shown in the books by reference to which the final accounts of the Commission are made up, and

(b) on the vesting date the trade carried on by the Commission had been permanently discontinued and the Boards had set up new trades.

(2) If at any time the Minister directs under subsection (4) of section forty of this Act, and by reference to paragraph (a) of that subsection, that a part of the Railways Board's suspended debt shall be extinguished, this section shall apply, and shall be deemed always to have applied, as if the net values of the assets which under or in pursuance of this Part of this Act are transferred to the Railways Board were the amount determined under subsection (1) of this section after deducting from that amount a sum equal to the part of the Railways Board's suspended debt so extinguished.

There shall be made all such adjustments, whether by way of additional assessment or otherwise, as may be necessary to give effect to this subsection, and notwithstanding anything in the Income Tax Act, 1952, any adjustment to give effect to this subsection as respects any year of assessment may be made at any time not more than six years after the end of the year of assessment in which the Minister gives his direction under the said subsection (4).

(3) In subsection (1) of this section the reference to Parts X and XI of the Income Tax Act, 1952, shall not include a reference to section seventeen of the Finance Act, 1956 (capital allowances on expenditure on dredging), notwithstanding that that section is by virtue of subsection (12) thereof to be treated as contained in the said Part X; and the said section seventeen shall apply as if the trade carried on by the Commission was not permanently discontinued on the vesting date and was continued in part by the Railways Board, in part by the Docks Board, and in part by the British Waterways Board.

(4) The expression " statutory provision" in section four hundred and eighty-two of the Income Tax Act, 1952 (which relates to capital allowances where undertakings are absorbed in nationalisation schemes), shall not include this Act.