Capital Transfer Tax Act 1984

272 General interpretation

In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires,—

• " amount" includes value ;

• " barrister " includes a member of the Faculty of Advocates ;

• " the Board " means the Commissioners of Inland Revenue ;

• " charity " and " charitable " have the same meanings as in the Income Tax Acts ;

• " conditionally exempt transfer" shall be construed in accordance with section 30(2) above ;

• " disposition " includes a disposition effected by associated operations;

• " estate " shall be construed in accordance with sections 5, 55 and 151(4) above ;

• " estate duty " includes estate duty under the law of Northern Ireland ;

• " excluded property " shall be construed in acordance with sections 6 and 48 above ;

• " Government department" includes a Northern Ireland department;

• " heritable security " means any security capable of being constituted over any interest in land by disposition or assignation of that interest in security of any debt and of being recorded in the General Register of Sasines;

• " incumbrance" includes any heritable security, or other debt or payment secured upon heritage ;

• " Inland Revenue charge" means a charge imposed by virtue of section 237 above ;

• " land " does not include any estate interest or right by way of mortgage or other security;

• " local authority " has the meaning given by section 52 of the [1974 c. 30.] Finance Act 1974 ;

• " mortgage" includes a heritable security and a security constituted over any interest in movable property;

• " personal representatives " includes any person by whom or on whose behalf an application for a grant of administration or for the resealing of a grant made outside the United Kingdom is made, and any such person as mentioned in section 199(4)(a) above ;

• " property" includes rights and interests of any description ;

• " purchaser " means a purchaser in good faith for consideration in money or money's worth other than a nominal consideration and includes a lessee, mortgagee or other person who for such consideration acquires an interest in the property in question ;

• " reversionary interest" has the meaning given by section 47 above ;

• " settlement " and " settled property " shall be construed in accordance with section 43 above ;

• " settlor " shall be construed in accordance with section 44 above:

• " Special Commissioners" has the same meaning as in the [1970 c. 9.] Taxes Management Act 1970 ;

• " tax " means capital transfer tax ;

• " the Taxes Act " means the [1970 c. 10.] Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970;

• " trustee" shall be construed in accordance with section 45 above.