Finance Act 1946

47 Gifts inter vivos etc.

The enactments mentioned in Part I of the Eleventh Schedule to this Act (which relate to the effect for estate duty purposes of gifts inter vivos and of certain other transactions effected and circumstances prevailing in the life time of the deceased) shall, in the case of persons dying on or after the tenth day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-six, have effect subject to the amendments specified in that Part of that Schedule, being amendments extending to five years before the death the period of three years before the death which is material for the purposes of those enactments and amendments consequential on that extension :

Provided that the amendments specified in the said Part I shall have effect subject to the transitional provisions set out in Part II of the said Schedule, being provisions which—

(a) exempt gifts made before the tenth day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-three from the operation of the said amendments so far as they relate to gifts inter vivos ; and

(b) make analogous provision in relation to others of the said amendments.