Finance Act 1967

41 Provisional collection of taxes.

(1) The [1913 c. 3.] Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1913, section 265 of the [1952 c. 44.] Customs and Excise Act 1952 (security for new duties) and section 49(6) of the [1965 c. 25.] Finance Act 1965 (assessment of corporation tax before passing of annual Act) shall apply to resolutions of the House of Commons and not to resolutions of the Committee of Ways and Means, and accordingly shall have effect subject to the repeals in Part IX of Schedule 16 to this Act.

(2) A resolution having statutory effect under section 1 of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1913 shall cease to have statutory effect unless within the next twenty-five days on which the House sits after the day on which the resolution is passed—

(a) a Bill varying or renewing the tax is read a second time by the House of Commons, or

(b) a Bill is amended by the House of Commons so as to include provision for the variation or renewal of the tax.

Proviso (a) to section 1(1) of the said Act of 1913 (which required a Bill varying or renewing the tax to have been read a second time within twenty sitting days after the resolution of the Committee of Ways and Means is agreed to by the House) shall cease to have effect, and the said section 1(1) shall be construed as one with this subsection.

(3) The period for which a resolution shall have statutory force under section 1 of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1913 shall, if the resolution is passed in March or April in any year, expire with 5th August in the same calendar year, and section 1(2) of the said Act shall have effect subject to this subsection.

(4) Section 1 of the [1913 c. 3.] Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1913 shall apply to a resolution of the House of Commons providing for the repeal or abolition of an existing tax (within the meaning of that Act) as it applies to such a resolution providing for the variation of any existing tax; and in relation to a resolution to which this subsection applies, the references in subsection (2) above and in proviso (b) to the said section 1(1) to the variation of the tax by a Bill or an Act shall be construed as references to its repeal or abolition by, as the case may require, a Bill or an Act.

(5) Section 49(6) of the [1965 c. 25.] Finance Act 1965 shall apply to a resolution passed in March or April in any year as if for the period of four months from the passing of the resolution referred to in that subsection (as a period within which an assessment may be made by virtue of the resolution) there were substituted a reference to a period beginning with the passing of the resolution and ending with 5th August in the same calendar year.

(6) In subsection (1) of section 265 of the [1952 c. 44.] Customs and Excise Act 1952 (which restricts that section to new duties of customs or excise in respect of any goods) the words " in respect of any goods " shall cease to have effect.

(7) This and the next following section shall come into force on such date, not earlier than 1st September 1967, as may be appointed by the Treasury by order in a statutory instrument.

(8) This and the next following section shall not affect the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1913 as that Act applies to the House of Commons of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.