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PART VIU.K.

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54 Amendments consequential on establishment of The Stock Exchange.U.K.

(1)In the enactments relating to . . . F3, . . . F4, . . . F5 . . . F3 stamp duty—

(a)references to the Stock Exchange, London or the London Stock Exchange, a stock exchange in the United Kingdom or a recognised stock exchange in the United Kingdom shall be construed as references to The Stock Exchange;

(b)references to quotation on a stock exchange in the United Kingdom on a recognised stock exchange in the United Kingdom shall be construed as references to listing in the Official List of The Stock Exchange; and

(c)references to a member of a stock exchange in the United Kingdom shall be construed as references to a member of The Stock Exchange;

and those enactments shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in Schedule 21 to this Act.

(2)This section shall be deemed to have come into operation on 25th March 1973 but shall not affect the operation of any enactment in relation to anything done before that day.

Textual Amendments

F4Words repealed by Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 (c. 14, SIF 63:2), s. 158, Sch. 8 (for 1979–80 et seq.)

F5Words repealed by Finance Act 1975 (c. 7), s. 59, Sch. 13 Pt. I (in relation to deaths after 12th March 1975)

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Textual Amendments

56 Charges for services, etc., by Government departments. U.K.

(1)Where a Government department, in pursuance of any Community obligation or any international agreement or arrangement, provides any services or facilities or issues any authorisation, certificate or other document, it may, in connection therewith, require the payment of such fees or other charges as may be prescribed by, or determined under, regulations made by the Minister in charge of the department with the consent of the Treasury.

(2)Regulations under this section may provide for the recovery and disposal of any sums payable under the regulations and make different provision for different circumstances.

(3)The powers conferred by this section are without prejudice to any powers exercisable apart from this section to require the payment of fees or other charges.

(4)Regulations under this section shall be made by statutory instrument, which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(5)In this section “Government department” includes a department of the Government of Northern Ireland, and any regulations which the Minister in charge of such a department is empowered to make under this section may be made either by him or by the department, and with the consent of the [F7Department of Finance] for Northern Ireland instead of the Treasury; and in relation to regulations so made subsection (4) of this section shall not apply but they shall be subject to negative resolution, within the meaning of section 41(6) of the M1Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954, as if they were a statutory instrument within the meaning of that Act.

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Textual Amendments

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Reference to Minister in charge of Department of Government of Northern Ireland to be construed as reference to head of department: Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), Sch. 5 para. 7(2)

C2S. 56 extended (1.12.1998) by 1998 c. 38, s. 29(4) (with ss. 139(2), 143(2)); S.I. 1998/2789, art. 2

C3S. 56(4) restricted (1.12.1998) by 1998 c. 38, s. 29(5) (with ss. 139(2), 143(2)); S.I. 1998/2789, art. 2

Marginal Citations

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58 Trustee Investments Act 1961—dividends of water companies.U.K.

(1)The Treasury may by order make such amendments in paragraph 10 of Part II of Schedule 1 to the M2Trustee Investments Acts 1961 (under which a trustee’s power to invest in certain securities depends on the amount of dividends paid) and in any enactment or instrument modifying that paragraph as appear to them required in consequence of the repeal by the Finance Act 1972 of the provisions relating to the deduction of income tax from distributions made by companies.

(2)An order under this section may be varied or revoked by a subsequent order under this section, and any such order shall be made by statutory instrument, which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

Marginal Citations

59 Citation, interpretation, construction, extent and repeals.U.K.

(1)This Act may be cited as the Finance Act 1973.

[F10(2)In this Act—

(a)the Taxes Act 1970” means the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970; and

(b)the Taxes Act 1988” means the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988.]

(3)In this Act—

(a)Part I shall be construed as one with the Customs and Excise Act 1952;

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(c)Part III, so far as it relates to income tax, shall be construed as one with the Income Tax Acts, so far as it relates to corporation tax, shall be construed as one with the COrporation Tax Acts and, so far as it relates to capital gains tax, shall be construed as one with [F12the Capital Gains Tax Act 1979];

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(e)Part V shall be construed as one with the M3Stamp Act 1891.

(4)Except so far as the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Act to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended, and as including a reference to that enactment as applied, by or under any other enactment, including this Act.

(5)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 do not extend to Northern Ireland.

(6)If the Parliament of Northern Ireland passes provisions amending or replacing any enactment of that Parliament referred to in this Act the reference shall be construed as a reference to the enactment as so amended or, as the case may be, as a reference to those provisions.

(7)The enactments mentioned in Schedule 22 to this Act (which include certain enactments which had ceased to have effect before the commencement of this Act) are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule, but subject to any provision at the end of any Part of that Schedule.

Textual Amendments

F12Words substituted by Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 (c. 14, SIF 63:2), s. 157, Sch. 7 para. 8 (for 1979–80 et seq.)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C4The text of s. 59(3)(a), Sch. 16A, Sch. 21 para. 5 and Sch. 22 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

Marginal Citations