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An Act to grant certain duties, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to the National Debt and the Public Revenue (other than Purchase Tax), and to make further provision in connection with Finance.
[30th July 1949]
Extent Information
E1Act: save as otherwise expressly provided, such provisions of this Act as relate to matters with respect to which the Parliament of Northern Ireland has power to make laws shall not extend to Northern Ireland see s. 52(9)
Commencement Information
I1Act partly in force at Royal Assent, partly retrospective, see individual sections; all provisions so far as unrepealed wholly in force at 1.2.1991.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 1 repealed by Finance Act 1962 (c. 44), Sch. 11 Pt. II
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F2S. 2, Sch. 1 repealed by Customs and Excise Act 1952 (c. 44), Sch. 12 Pt. I
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F3S. 3 repealed by Finance Act 1953 (c. 34), Sch. 3 Pt. I
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F4Ss. 4, 5, Schs. 2, 3 repealed by Finance Act 1958 (c. 56), Sch. 9 Pt. I
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F5Ss. 6, 12, Sch. 4 repealed by Finance Act 1962 (c. 44), Sch. 11 Pt. I
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(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F7
(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F6
Textual Amendments
F6S. 7(1)(2)(4) repealed by Finance Act 1951 (c. 43), s. 44(9), Sch. 7
F7S. 7(3) repealed by Customs and Excise Act 1952 (c. 44), s. 320, Sch. 12 Pt. I
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F8S. 8 repealed by Finance Act 1973 (c. 51), Sch. 22 Pt. I
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F9S. 9 repealed by Finance Act 1950 (c. 15), Sch. 8 Pt. II and Statute Law Revision Act 1953 (c. 5)
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F10Ss. 10, 11 repealed by Finance Act 1957 (c. 49), Sch. 9 Pt. I
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F11Ss. 6, 12, Sch. 4 repealed by Finance Act 1962 (c. 44), Sch. 11 Pt. I
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F12S. 13 repealed by Dog Licences Act 1959 (c. 55), Sch.
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F13S. 14 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1971 (c. 52)
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F14S. 15 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1978 (c. 45), Sch. 1 Pt. IX
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F15S. 16 repealed by Import Duties Act 1958 (c. 6), Sch. 7
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F16S. 17 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969 (c. 52)
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F18Ss. 27–29, 32, 33, Sch. 7 repealed by Finance Act 1975 (c. 7), ss. 50, 52(2)(3), Sch. 13 Pt. I
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F19S. 30 repealed by Finance Act 1959 (c. 58), Sch. 8 Pt. III
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F20S. 31 repealed (22.3.1972) by Finance Act 1972 (c. 41), Sch. 28 Pt. VII and Finance Act 1975 (c. 7), ss. 50, 52(2)(3), Sch. 13 Pt. I
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F21Ss. 27–29, 32, 33, Sch. 7 repealed by Finance Act 1975 (c. 7), ss. 50, 52(2)(3), Sch. 13 Pt. I
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F23S. 35 repealed (27.7.1999 with effect as mentioned in Sch. 10 of the amending Act) by 1999 c. 16, s. 139, Sch. 20 Pt. V(2)
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(4)Section twelve of the M1Finance Act 1895 (which relates to duty on property vested by Act or purchased under statutory powers), shall not require any person who is authorised after the coming into force of this section to purchase any property as mentioned in the said section twelve to include in the instrument of conveyance required by that section to be produced to the Commissioners any [F25exempt property] forming part of the property nor, if the property consists wholly of [F25exempt property], to produce any instrument of conveyance thereof to the Commissioners.
[F26(5) In subsection (4) above “exempt property” has the same meaning as in section 110 of the Finance Act 1991.]
Textual Amendments
F24S. 36(1)–(3) repealed by Finance Act 1956 (c. 54), Sch. 5 Pt. II
F25Words in s. 36(4) substituted (with application as mentioned in s. 114(4)) by Finance Act 1991 (c. 31, SIF 114), s. 114(2)
F26S. 36(5) inserted (with application as mentioned in s. 114(4)) by Finance Act 1991 (c. 31, SIF 114), s. 114(3)
Marginal Citations
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F27Pt. V (ss. 37–45), s. 52(6), Sch. 11 Pt. VI repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. II
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F28Ss. 46, 47(1) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1959 (c. 68)
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(2)Section fifty-four of the said Act shall cease to have effect in so far as it requires that any sums shall be invested in stock to be placed to the credit of the said account, and sums which would, but for this provision, be required by virtue of that section or of section sixty-one of that Act to be so invested shall instead be placed direct to the credit of that account.
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(4)Subsection (2) of this section shall not affect the manner in which unclaimed redemption moneys are to be dealt with under paragraph 6 of the Third Schedule to the Finance Act, 1921; and accordingly the said paragraph 6 shall have effect with the substitution for the words “and when so paid shall be held and dealt with by the said Commissioners in like manner as dividends paid to them under section sixty-one of the National Debt Act, 1870” of the words “and when so paid shall be invested by the said Commissioners in the purchase of such Government stock as the Treasury may from time to time direct, and the provsions of Part VII of the National Debt Act, 1870, as to stock transferred thereunder shall apply to those moneys and the stock for the time being representing them with such modifications as may be necessary to give effect to the right to those moneys instead of to a right to stock transferred and the dividends thereon”.
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Textual Amendments
F29Ss. 46, 47(1) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1959 (c. 68)
F30Ss. 47(3)(5) repealed by Miscellaneous Financial Provisions Act 1955 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2 c. 6), Sch. 2 Pt. III
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1 “The said Act” means National Debt Act 1870 (c. 71)
C2The text of s. 46(4), Sch. 8 Part I paras. 1–3, 6, 7, 10–16, 19–27 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.
(1)Upon the death of anyone who is the holder of any Government stock, the production of probate or letters of administration granted to any person by a court in the Isle of Man or in any of the Channel Islands having authority to make the grant, or of a certified copy of probate or letters of administration so granted, shall be of the same effect to authorise the Bank of England to transfer the stock as production of probate or letters of administration granted to that person in England:
Provided that the Bank of England shall not transfer any Government stock in pursuance of this section except on production to the Bank of a certificate from the Commissioners of Inland Revenue showing either that all death duties payable in Great Britain in respect of the stock have been paid or that no duty is payable in Great Britain in respect thereof.
(2)Where any stock is transferred in pursuance of this section, the Bank of England shall be indemnified and protected notwithstanding any defect or circumstance whatsoever affecting the validity of the probate or letters of administration in question.
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(4)This section so far as it relates to probates and letters of administration granted by a court in the Isle of Man shall be deemed to have had effect as from the twenty-ninth day of January, nineteen hundred and forty-one (being the date on which similar provision was made in relation thereto by regulation 7B of the Defence (Finance) Regulations, 1939), and accordingly that regulation is hereby repealed.
Textual Amendments
(1)Part V of the Finance Act, 1948 (which relates to the special contribution), shall, notwithstanding anything in subsection (9) of section eighty-two of that Act, extend to Northern Ireland.
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(3)This section shall be deemed to have had effect from the commencement of the said Act of 1948:
Provided that notwithstanding anything in the said Part V or regulations made thereunder, where in the case —
(a)of an assessment on, or on the personal representatives of, a person resident in Northern Ireland made before the passing of this Act; or
(b)of contribution recoverable from, or required to be paid by, a person so resident in consequence of an assessment so made; or
(c)of contribution assessed by an assessment so made, being contribution charged by reference to income arising, or deemed to arise, under a trust the administration of which is governed by the law of Northern Ireland;
the time limited for the doing of any of the following things, that is to say—
(i)the making of an appeal under any of the provisions of section sixty of the said Act of 1948 (which relates to appeals); or
(ii)the making of an application or the giving of a notice under subsection (5) of section fifty-eight of that Act (which relates to the separate assessment of husband and wife); or
(iii)the making of an application under section sixty-one, sixty-two or sixty-four of that Act (which provide respectively for relief where income attributable to a period of years was received in the year 1947-48, for an allowance for maintenance and repairs, and for relief in the case of capital subject to death duties);
would have expired before the passing of this Act or within twenty-eight days after the passing thereof, that time shall expire at the end of the said twenty-eight days.
(4)It is hereby declared that this section extends to Northern Ireland.
Textual Amendments
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C3The text of s. 49 relates to obsolete Taxes and is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
Textual Amendments
F33S. 50 repealed by Income Tax Act 1952 (c. 10), s. 527, Sch. 25
(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, where, whether before or after the passing of this Act, a person gives notice of appeal to the General Commissioners, the Special Commissioners or the Board of Referees against an assessment to, or a decision of any kind with respect to, income tax other than surtax, surtax, the profits tax, excess profits tax or the special contribution, and, before the appeal is determined by the Commissioners or Board, the surveyor or other proper officer of the Crown and the appellant come to an agreement, whether in writing or otherwise, that the assessment or decision should be treated as upheld without variation, or as varied in a particular manner or as discharged or cancelled, the like consequences shall ensue for all purposes as would have ensued if at the time when the agreement was come to, the Commissioners or Board had determined the appeal and had upheld the assessment or decision without variation, had varied it in that manner or had discharged or cancelled it, as the case may be.
(2)Subject to the provisions of this section, where, whether before or after the passing of this Act, a person claims relief from excess profits tax for a deficiency of profits and, before the claim is determined by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, the surveyor or other proper officer of the Crown and the claimant come to an agreement, whether in writing or otherwise, that the claim should be allowed, or should be allowed with a variation, or should be disallowed, the like consequences shall ensue for all purposes as would have ensued if, at the time when the agreement was come to, the said Commissioners had allowed the claim, or had allowed it with that variation, or had disallowed it, as the case may be.
(3)The preceding provisions of this section shall not apply where, within twenty-one days from the date when the agreement was come to, the appellant or claimant gives notice in writing to the surveyor or other proper officer of the Crown that he desires to repudiate or resile from the agreement.
(4)The preceding provisions of this section shall, in relation to an agreement which is come to after the passing of this Act and is not in writing, have effect subject to the following provisions, that is to say—
(a)the said preceding provisions shall not apply unless the fact that an agreement was come to, and the terms agreed, are confirmed by notice in writing given by the surveyor or other proper officer of the Crown to the appellant or claimant, or by the appellant or claimant to the surveyor or other proper officer; and
(b)the references in the said preceding provisions to the time when the agreement was come to shall be construed as references to the time of the giving of the said notice of confirmation.
(5)Where, whether before or after the passing of this Act, a person who has given such a notice of appeal as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, or has made such a claim as is mentioned in subsection (2) thereof, notifies the surveyor or other proper officer of the Crown, whether orally or in writing, that he desires not to proceed with the appeal or, as the case may be, that he desires to withdraw the claim, and, in the case of a notification with respect to an appeal, twenty-one days have elapsed since the giving of the notification without the surveyor or other proper officer giving to the appellant notice in writing indicating that he is unwilling that the appeal should be treated as withdrawn, the preceding provisions of this section shall have effect as if, at the date of the appellant’s or claimant’s notification, the appellant or claimant and the surveyor or other proper officer had come to an agreement, orally or in writing, as the case may be, that the assessment or decision should be upheld without variation or that the claim should be disallowed.
(6)The references in this section to an agreement being come to with an appellant or claimant and the giving of notice or notification to or by an appellant or claimant include references to an agreement being come to with, and the giving of notice or notification to or by, a person acting on behalf of the appellant or claimant in relation to the appeal or claim.
(7)This section shall not apply in relation to any appeal or claim for relief which has in fact been duly determined before the sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, by the Commissioners having jurisdiction in the matter or by the Board of Referees, as the case may be.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C4The text of s. 51 relates to obsolete Taxes and 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.
(1)This Act may be cited as the Finance Act 1949.
(2)Part I of this Act—
(a)so far as it relates to duties of customs, shall be construed as one with the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, except that the expression “the United Kingdom” does not include the Isle of Man; and
(b)so far as it relates to duties of excise, shall be construed as one with the Acts which relate to the duties of excise and to the management of those duties;
and in the said Part I the expression “the Commissioners” means the Commissioners of Customs and Excise.
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(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F35
(5)Part IV of this Act shall be construed as one with the M2Stamp Act 1891.
(6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F36
(7)Part VII of this Act—
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(b)so far as it relates to the profits tax, shall be construed as one with Part III of the M3Finance Act 1937, and the other enactments relating to the profits tax.
(8)Any reference in this Act to any other enactment shall, exceptsofar as the context otherwise requires, be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended by or under any other enactment, including this Act.
(9)Save as otherwise expressly provided, such of the provisions of this Act as relate to matters with respect to which the Parliament of Northern Ireland has power to make laws shall not extend to Northern Ireland.
(10)The enactments specified in the Eleventh Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of that Schedule:
Provided that the repeals effected by any Part of that Schedule shall be subject to the savings (if any) provided for at the end of that Part.
(11)The inclusion of express savings in this Act shall not be taken as affecting the application thereto of any provision of [F38the M4Interpretation Act 1978], as to the effect of repeals.
Textual Amendments
F34S. 52(3) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1953 (c. 5)
F35S. 52(4) repealed by Finance Act 1975 (c. 7), Sch. 13 Pt. I
F36Pt. V (ss. 37–45), s. 52(6), Sch. 11 Pt. VI repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. II
F37S. 52(7)(a) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1953 (c. 5)
F38Words substituted by virtue of Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30), s. 25(2)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C5The text of s. 52(2), which is spent, 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.
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F39S. 2, Sch. 1 repealed by Customs and Excise Act 1952 (c. 44), Sch. 12 Pt. I
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F40Ss. 4, 5, Schs. 2, 3 repealed by Finance Act 1958 (c. 56), Sch. 9 Pt. I
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F41Ss. 6, 12, Sch. 4 repealed by Finance Act 1962 (c. 44), Sch. 11 Pt. I
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F42Sch. 5 repealed by Finance Act 1951 (c. 43), Sch. 7
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F44Ss. 27–29, 32, 33, Sch. 7 repealed by Finance Act 1975 (c. 7), ss. 50, 52(2)(3), Sch. 13 Pt. I
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F45Sch. 8 repealed (27.7.1999 with effect as mentioned in Sch. 20 of the amending Act) by 1999 c. 16, s. 139, Sch. 20 Pt. V(2)
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F49Sch. 9 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. II
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Textual Amendments
F51Sch. 11 repealed subject to savings by Statute Law Revision Act 1953 (c. 5) and Finance Act 1975 (c. 7) Sch. 13 Pt. I
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C27The text of Sch. 11 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
The repeal of any enactment by this Part of this Schedule shall not affect its operation as respects licences of any description for a period before the date of the transfer of the duties on those licences under section fifteen of this Act
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C28The text of Sch. 11 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
The repeal of any enactment by this Part of this Schedule shall not affect its operation as respects any drawback of duty, where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise that the duty was paid at the rate in force at the beginning of the sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-nine
Textual Amendments
F52Sch. 11 repealed subject to savings by Statute Law Revision Act 1953 (c. 5) and Finance Act 1975 (c. 7) Sch. 13 Pt. I
Textual Amendments
F53Pt. V (ss. 37–45), s. 52(6), Sch. 11 Pt. VI repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. II
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