Finance Act 1967
1967 CHAPTER 54
An Act to grant certain duties, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to the National Debt and the Public Revenue, and to make further provision in connection with Finance
[21st July 1967]
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Part IU.K. Customs and Excise
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(1)As from 1st October 1967, an excise licence shall not be required for the sale by retail of intoxicating liquor or for the supply of such liquor in a registered club to members of that club and their guests...
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(3)In this section the expression “registered club” means a club ... which is a registered club within the meaning of the Licensing (Scotland) Act [1976].
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7 Pool betting duty.U.K.
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(8)Paragraph 13(f) of Schedule 2 to the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963 (which requires the rules applying to any competition promoted by a registered pools promoter to be notified to the accountant appointed for the purpose by the registering authority before the first of the relevant sporting or other events takes place) shall have effect with the insertion after the word “notified” of the words “to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise and”; and if any such promoter is, under paragraph 29(2) of the said Schedule 2, guilty of an offence by reason of a failure to comply with the duty imposed on him by virtue of this subsection—
(a)paragraph 29(3) of that Schedule (which empowers the registering authority to take proceedings for such an offence in England) shall not apply; but
(b)[sections 145 and 151 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979] (which relate respectively to the institution of proceedings and the application of penalties imposed and costs or, in Scotland, expenses awarded under [the customs and excise Acts]) shall apply in relation to that offence and to any fine imposed or costs or expenses awarded in connection therewith as if they were an offence or, as the case may be, a penalty imposed or costs or expenses awarded under [the customs and excise Acts].
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Part VU.K. Stamp Duties
27 Conveyances and transfers on sale: reduction of duty, and amendment of provisions for exemption.U.K.
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(2)Section 42 of the Finance Act 1930 (which exempts from duty conveyances and transfers complying with subsection (2) of that section, that is to say, between companies with limited liability, where one owns ninety per cent. of the issued share capital f the other or a third owns ninety per cent. of the issued share capital of each) shall be amended as respects instruments executed on or after the said 1st August by substituting for the said subsection (2) the following subsections—
“(2)This section applies to any instrument as respects which it is shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioners that the effect thereof is to convey or transfer a beneficial interest in property from one body corporate to another, and that the bodies in question are associated, that is to say, one is beneficial owner of not less than ninety per cent. of the issued share capital of the other, or a third such body is beneficial owner of not less than ninety per cent. of the issued share capital of each.
(3)The ownership referred to in subsection (2) above is ownership either directly or through another body corporate or other bodies corporate, or partly directly and partly through another body corporate or other bodies corporate, and Part I of Schedule 4 to the (determination of amount of capital held through other bodies corporate) shall apply for the purposes of this section with the substitution of references to issued share capital for references to ordinary share capital.”
(3)The said section 42 shall not apply to any instrument executed on or after the said 1st August unless it is also shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioners that the instrument was not executed in pursuance of or in connection with an arrangement whereunder—
(a)the consideration, or any part of the consideration, for the conveyance or transfer was to be provided or received, directly or indirectly, by a person other than a body corporate which at the time of the execution of the instrument was associated within the meaning of the said section 42 with either the transferor or the transferee (meaning, respectively, the body from whom and the body to whom the beneficial interest was conveyed or transferred), or
(b)the said interest was previously conveyed or transferred, directly or indirectly, by such a person, or
(c)the transferor and the transferee were to cease to be associated within the meaning of the said section 42 by reason of [the transferor or a third body corporate ceasing to be the transferee’s parent (within the meaning of the said section 42)];
and, without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (a) above, an arrangement shall be treated as within that paragraph if it is one whereunder the transferor or the transferee, or a body corporate associated with either as there mentioned, was to be enabled to provide any of the consideration, or was to part with any of it, by or in consequence of the carrying out of a transaction or transactions involving, or any of them involving, a payment or other disposition by a person other than a body corporate so associated.
This subsection shall, as respects instruments executed on or after the said 1st August, have effect in substitution for section 50 of the Finance Act 1938.
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Part VIU.K. Miscellaneous
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45 Citation, interpretation, construction, extent and repeals.U.K.
(1)This Act may be cited as the Finance Act 1967.
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(3)In this Act—
(a)Part I (except sections 8 to 12 and Schedules 7 and 8) shall be construed as one with the [Customs and Excise Management Act 1979],
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(g)Part V shall be construed as one with the Stamp Act 1891, and
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(5)The following provisions of this Act, namely, section 5(1) so far as it relates to the Licensing (Scotland) Acts 1959 and 1962 and Schedule 8, shall be included in the enactments which may be cited together as the Licensing (Scotland) Acts 1959 to 1967.
(6)Any reference in this Act to any other enactment shall, except so far as the context otherwise requires, be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended or applied by or under any other enactment, including this Act.
(7)Except as otherwise expressly provided, such of the provisions of this Act as relate to matters in respect of which the Parliament of Northern Ireland has power to make laws shall not extend to Northern Ireland.
(8)The enactments mentioned in Schedule 16 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of that Schedule, but subject to any provision in relation thereto made at the end of any Part of that Schedule.
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SCHEDULE 1—U.K.
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SCHEDULE 2—U.K.
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SCHEDULE 7U.K. MODIFICATIONS OF LICENSING ACT 1964 CONSEQUENTIAL ON ABOLITION OF RETAILER’S LICENCES, ETC.
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SCHEDULES 14, 15—U.K.
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Section 45.
SCHEDULE 16U.K. Repeals
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Part IU.K. Repeals in Connection with Abolition of Retailer’s Licences and Club Licences
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15 & 16 geo. 6. & 1 Eliz. 2. c. 44. | The Customs and Excise Act 1952. | Section 148(1) to (3). |
| | Sections 149 to 155. |
| | In section 157(1), the words “whether” and “or by retail”. |
| | Section 157(2). |
| | In section 161(2) the word “retailed”. |
| | In section 167(1), the words “whether” and “or retail”. |
| | Section 169(1). |
| | In section 169(2), the words “or retailer”. |
| | In section 169(3), the words “or retailer”. |
| | In section 170(1), the words “or retailer”. |
| | In section 307(1), in the paragraph which, as amended, begins “justices’ certificate”, the words “a certficate of a licensing court granted under the Licensing (Scotland) Act, 1903, or”. |
7 & 8 Eliz. 2. c. 51. | The Licensing (Scotland) Act 1959. | In section 32(2) the words “under the appropriate excise licence” wherever those words occur. |
| | Section 47(5). |
| | In section 57, the words “under the appropriate excise licence”. |
| | In section 58(2), the words “and (5)”. |
| | In section 59(1), the words “to obtain an excise licence for the sale by retail of exciseable liquor, or”. |
| | In section 60(1), the words “and holding also a retailer’s on-licence in respect of those premises”. |
| | In section 60(3)(b), the words “and a retailer’s on-licence”. |
| | In section 60(5), the words “and retailer’s on-licence”. |
| | Section 60(9) and (10). |
| | In section 65, the words “to hold a retailer’s on-licence”, and the words from “and a retailer’s on-licence may be granted” to the end of the section. |
| | Section 67(5). |
| | In section 68(1), the words from the beginning to “has been transferred to him; but” and the words “has in pursuance of this Part of this Act been granted a retailer’s on-licence and”. |
| | Section 72. |
| | In section 82(4), the words “under a licence”. |
| | In section 131(2), the words “and an excise licence”. |
| | In section 164(1) and (2), the words “or by any person not holding an excise licence for the sale of exciseable liquor in such premises”. |
| | Section 193. |
| | In section 198(c), the words “by virtue of an order made by the Commissioners under subsection (3) of the said section one hundred and fifty”. |
| | In section 19991), in the definition of “exciseable liquor”, the words “whether” and “or by retail”; the definitions of “occasional licence” and “retailer’s on-licence”; and in the definition of “she-been”, the words “and excise licence”. |
| | In Schedule 2, the words “under the appropriate excise licence” wherever those words occur. |
| | In Schedule 4, in Form 4, the words from “and the said” where last occuring to “said period”. |
| | Schedule 11. |
7 & 8 Eliz. 2. c. 58. | The Finance act 1959. | Section 2(1) from “and no” onwards. |
| | Section 2(2) to (4). |
| | Section 3(1). |
| | In section 3(3) the words “or retailer” wherever those words occur. |
| | Section 4 (except subsection (6)). |
| | As from 1st May 1968, section 4(6). |
10 & 11 Eliz. 2. c. 51. | The Licensing (Scotland) Act 1962. | In section 1(2)(b) and in section 1(3)(b), the words “in accordance with the appropriate excise licence”. |
| | In section 17(2), the words “or licence”. |
| | In section 21(1), the words from the beginning of the subsection to “shall cease to have effect, but”. |
| | In Schedule 1, the words “under the appropriate excise licence” in both places where those words occur. |
1964 c. 26. | The Licensing Act 1964. | In section 1(1), the words “and the Customs and Excise Act 1952” and “the holder to hold an excise licence for”. |
| | In section 1(2)(a) and in section 1(2)(b) the words from “authorising the” to “a licence”. |
| | In section 4(1), the words “or British wine alone”. |
| | Section 10(2) from “and the” onwards. |
| | Section 11(6). |
| | In section 12(1), the words “or British wine alone”. |
| | Section 36(4). |
| | Section 55(1). |
| | Section 55(2) from the beginning to “by the club, and”. |
| | In section 93(5), the words “or British wine alone”. |
| | In section 152(1), the words from the beginning to “but” and the words from “has in” to “subsequently”. |
| | Section 159(2). |
| | In section 160(1)(a) and in section 160(1)(b), the words “him to hold an excise licence for”. |
| | Schedule 13. |
1966 c. 18. | The Finance Act 1966. | In Schedule 2, paragraph 3. |
The above repeals shall not have effect, in the case of the repeal of section 4(6) of the Finance Act 1959, until 1st May 1968 or, in any other case, until 1st October 1967.
Part IIU.K. Repeals in Connection with Abolition of Certain Permits
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15 & 16 Geo. 6 & 1 Eliz. 2. c. 44. | The Customs and Excise Act 1952. | Section 108. |
| | Section 147(1) from “and where” onwards. |
| | Section 147(2). |
| | Section 174. |
| | Section 241(1), (3) and (4). |
| | Section 242(1)(a) and (b). |
8 & 9 Eliz. 2. c. 44. | The Finance act 1960. | Section 3(3). |
The above repeals shall not take effect until the expiration of the period of seven days beginning with the date of the passing of this Act.
Part IIIU.K. Other Customs and Excise Repeals
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15 & 16 Geo. 6 & 1 Eliz. 2. c. 44. | The Customs and Excise Act 1952. | Section 225. |
| | In section 226(1), the words “or vinegar-maker”. |
| | In section 227(1)(a) and (c), the words “or vinegar-makers”. |
| | Section 237(2)(d). |
| | In section 263(3), the words “manufactured by that trader”. |
| | In section 307(1), the definition of “vinegar-maker”. |
| | Schedules 1, 2, 3 and 5. |
1965 c.25. | The Finance Act 1965. | Section 1(1). |
| | In section 1(3), the words “(1) and” and the words from “and drawback” onwards. |
1966 c. 18. | The Finance Act 1966. | Section 16. |
1966 c. 46. | The Bus Fuel Grants Act 1966. | Section 1(1)(a)(ii), the word “later” and the words from “including” onwards. |
Part IVU.K. Purchase Tax repeal
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1963 c. 9. | The Purchase Tax ACt 1963. | Section 23(2). |
The above repael shall not take effect until the day appointed under section 9 of this Act.
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Part VIU.K. Subvention Payment Repeals
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1 & 2 Eliz. 2. c. 34. | The Finance Act 1953. | Section 20. |
2 & 3 Eliz. 2. c. 44. | The Finance Act 1954. | In Schedule 4, paragraph 3. |
10 & 11 Eliz. 2. c. 44. | The Finance Act 1962. | In section 25(3), paragraph (a) and the words following paragraph (b). |
1964 c. 37. | The Income Tax Management Act 1964. | In Schedule 4, the entry relating to section 20(4) of the Finance Act 1953. |
1965 c. 25. | The Finance Act 1965. | In Schedule 15, paragraph 10. |
| | In Schedule 21, in paragraph 2(3) the words from “and (when a subvention payment” to the end of the subparagraph. |
The above repeals do not have effect in relation to a deficit of any accounting period ending before the passing of this Act.
Part VIIU.K. Stamp Duty Repeals
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54&55 Vict. c. 39. | The Stamp Act 1891. | In section 115, the words “county council” and “county council or”, where-ever occurring. |
60&61 Vict. c. 24. | The Finance Act 1897. | Section 8. |
62&63 Vict. c. 9. | The Finance Act 1899. | In section 8(1), the words “local authority”. |
| | Section 8(3). |
| | In section 8(4), the words “local authority” (twice). |
| | In section 8(5), the words “county stock” and “municipal stock”, the words “local authority” where first occuring, the words from “any county council” to “date or”, and the words from “and the expression” to the end. |
7 Edw. 7. c. 13. | The Finance Act 1907. | In section 10(1), the words “local authority” and “authority”, and the words from “but this section” to the end. |
| | In section 10(2), the words “local authority”. |
1&2 Geo. 6. c. 46 | The Finance Act 1938. | Section 50. |
9&10 Geo. 6. c. 64. | The Finance Act 1946. | In section 54(5), the words “county council or”. |
5&6 Eliz. 2. c. 56. | The Housing Act 1957. | In Schedule 8, paragraphs 2 and 3. |
10&11 Eliz. 2. c. 46. | The Transport Act 1962. | Sections 26 and 29(17). |
1963 c. 25. | The Finance Act 1963. | In section 57, the words “Finance Act 1899, section 8”. |
| | Section 66. |
1963 c. 46. | Th Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act 1963. | In Schedule 1, paragraph 3. |
1964 c. 67. | The Local Government (Development and Finance) (Scotland) Act 1964. | In the Schedule, paragraph 3. |
1965 c. 16. | The Airports Authority Act 1965. | In Schedule 1, paragraph 11. |
1965 c. 63. | The Public Works Loans Act 1965. | Section 3. |
1966 c. 12. | The Post Office Savings Bank Act 1966. | In the Schedule, paragraph 2. |
1966 c. 49. | The Housing (Scotland) Act 1966. | In Schedule 7, paragraphs 2 and 3. |
1967 c. 17. | The Iron and Steel Act 1967. | Section 40(1). |
The above repeals shall have effect—
(a)so far as they relate to section 115 of the Stamp Act 1891, to any enactment applying that section, and to section 66 of the Finance Act 1963, as from 1st August 1967, but subject to the savings contained in section 29(5) of this Act,
(b)so far as they relate to section 8 of the Finance Act 1899 and subsequent enactments relating to duty under that section, as respects loan capital issued on or after 1st August 1967, and
(c)subject to the preceding paragraphs, as respects instruments executed or issued on or after 1st August 1967.
Part VIIIU.K. Mineral Rights Duty Repeals
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10 Edw. 7. & 1 Geo. 5. c. 8. | The Finance (1909-10) Act 1910. | Part I, except, in section 33(2), the words from the beginning to “in manner provided by rules under this section”. |
1&2 Geo. 5. c. 2. | The Revenue Act 1911. | In Scotland, section 7. |
2&3 Geo. 5. c. 8. | The Finance Act 1912. | Section 11. |
1U.K.The above repeals shall not affect liability to, or the assessment, collection or recovery of, mineral rights duty for the financial year ending on 31st March 1967, or for any previous financial year, or any other right, liability or proceedings in respect of or concerning that duty for any such year.
2U.K.In Scotland, the above repeals, so far as they relate to subsections (2) to (5) of section 33, and section 34, of the Finance (1909-10) Act 1910, to so much of section 42 of that Act as has effect for the purposes of those provisions, and to section 7 of the Revenue Act 1911, shall not have effect until the coming into force in that country of sections 1 to 4 of the Lands tribunal Act 1949.
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Part XU.K. Other Repeals
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15&16 Geo. 6. & 1 eliz. 2. c. 10. | The Income Tax Act 1952. | In section 12(1) the words “the Special Commissioners”. |
| | Section 218 except so far as any provision of that section is applied for the purposes of section 17 of the Finance Act 1960. |
| | In section 436(2) the words “any interest on money borrowed for the purpose of acquiring securities” and the word “other” as respects the year 1967-68 and subsequent years of assessment, and as respects accounting periods ending on or after 6th April, 1967. |
| | In section 495(4) the words from “shall be recoverable” to “is payable”. |
1965 c. 25. | The Finance Act 1965. | In section 10, sub-sections (3) and (6). |
| | In section 20(5), the words “accruing in that year of assessment” in the first place. |
| | Section 65(6). |
| | Section 95. |
| | In Schedule 8, in paragraph 7 the words “on a disposal of the lease”. |
| | In Schedule 12, in paragraph 1(3) the words “or is not paid in pursuance of such an agreement”. |
| | In Schedule 18, paragraph 13(3) as respects any accounting period beginning after 11th April 1967. |