Finance Act 1986

37 (1) In Schedule 2 (provisions applying on reduction of tax).—

(a) for the words "new Tables", wherever occurring, there shall be substituted "a new Table"; and

(b) for the words "the Tables", wherever occurring, there shall be substituted "the Table".

(2) In paragraph (1)(b) of that Schedule for the word "come" there shall be substituted "comes".

(3) After paragraph 1 of that Schedule there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“Death within seven years of potentially exempt transfer

1A Where a person who has made a potentially exempt transfer before a reduction dies after that reduction (or after that and one or more subsequent reductions) and within the period of seven years beginning with the date of the transfer, tax shall be chargeable by reason of the transfer proving to be a chargeable transfer only if, and to the extent that, it would have been so chargeable if the Table in Schedule 1 as substituted by that reduction (or by the most recent of those reductions) had applied to that transfer.”

(4) In paragraph 2 of that Schedule.—

(a) for the words "three years", wherever occurring, there shall be substituted "seven years"; and

(b) after the words "chargeable transfer" there shall be inserted "(other than a potentially exempt transfer)"; and

(c) the words "the first of shall be omitted.

(5) In paragraph 3 of that Schedule, the words "the second of shall be omitted.

(6) In paragraph 4 of that Schedule, the words "the first of shall be omitted.