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(1)Purchase tax shall cease to be chargeable in respect of goods of the classes specified in Part Tof the Third Schedule to this Act.
(2)Purchase tax shall become chargeable at the reduced rate and the basic rate in respect of goods of the classes specified respectively in Parts II and III of the Third Schedule to this Act:
Provided that goods shall not become chargeable under this subsection at the basic rate if they fall within any of the classes specified in the second or third column of the Seventh Schedule to the [3 & 4 Geo. 6. c. 48.] Finance (No. 2) Act, 1940 (including classes specified in Part I of the Third Schedule to this Act).
(3)In accordance with the preceding provisions of this section, the Seventh Schedule to the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1940, and the; Seventh Schedule to the Finance Act, 1942, shall be amended in accordance with Parts IV and V of the Third Schedule to this Act respectively.
(4)The preceding provisions of this section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the tenth day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-six, and shall have effect in relation to a purchase of goods of any of the classes to which this section relates delivered under the purchase on or after the said date notwithstanding that the purchase was made before the said date:
Provided that to the extent that the provisions of subsection (1) and the proviso to subsection (2) of this section relate to the classes of goods shown in Part I of the Third Schedule to this Act as becoming exempt on the twenty-second day of July, nineteen hundred and forty-six, and to the extent that the provisions of the said subsection (2) relate to the classes of goods shown respectively in' Parts II and III of the said Third Schedule as becoming on the said date chargeable at the reduced rate and the basic rate, those provisions shall be deemed to have come into operation on the said date, and references in this subsection to the said tenth day of April shall in relation to those provisions and to that extent be construed as references to the said twenty-second day of July.
(5)Nothing in this section shall affect the operation of section twenty of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1940 (which empowers the Treasury by order to direct that tax shall become or cease to be chargeable in respect of goods of any class or shall be chargeable at a different rate).
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