Part 4Stamp duty land tax
Compliance
97Power to allow further time and reasonable excuse for failure
(1)
For the purposes of this Part a person shall be deemed not to have failed to do anything required to be done within a limited time if he did it within such further time, if any, as the Inland Revenue may allow.
(2)
Where a person had a reasonable excuse for not doing anything required to be done for the purposes of this Part—
(a)
he shall be deemed not to have failed to do it unless the excuse ceased, and
(b)
after the excuse ceased, he shall be deemed not to have failed to do it if he did it without unreasonably delay after the excuse had ceased.