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This section has effect as respects the application of the proviso to section 227(2) of the Income Tax Act 1952 (under which certain non-residents are eligible for the personal reliefs from income tax subject to an adjustment made by reference to the amount of income tax payable on certain assumptions) to an individual whose income includes any dividends, interest, royalties or other profits (in this section referred to as income eligible for double taxation relief) which are chargeable to income tax but in respect of which relief (other than credit) is available under an Order in Council under section 347 of the Income Tax Act 1952, or under section 31 of this Act, so as to limit the rate of income tax so chargeable (but not so as to confer an exemption and make it income which is not subject to income tax charged in the United Kingdom).

Subject to subsection (3) below, for the purposes of the said proviso— and accordingly where this subsection applies the amount of the tax chargeable in respect of the income eligible for double taxation relief shall not be affected by the said section 227(2).

This section shall not operate so as to make the tax payable by an individual for a year of assessment higher than it would have been if the double taxation relief had not been available.

This section has effect as respects the year 1966-67 and subsequent years of assessment.

Section 40(1)(a) of the Finance Act 1956 (which exempts from income tax a pension paid under the authority of the Pensions (India, Pakistan and Burma) Act 1955 if it is the income of a person not resident in the United Kingdom, but not the part of the pension paid by virtue of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1962 or earlier Pensions (Increase) Acts) shall have effect subject to the provisions of this section.

The said section 40(1) shall not apply to so much of any pension of the description in paragraph (a) thereof as is paid by virtue of the application to the pension of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1965 or of any Act passed after this Act for purposes corresponding to the purposes of the said Act of 1965.

Notwithstanding section 12(1) of the Finance Act 1965 (which extends section 415(1) of the Income Tax Act 1952 so as to treat certain income arising under a settlement as being for surtax purposes the income of the settlor) the said section 415(1) shall not apply to income consisting of annual payments made under a partnership agreement to or for the benefit of a former member, or the widow or dependants of a deceased former member, of the partnership, being payments made under a liability incurred for full consideration.

Notwithstanding the said section 12(1), the said section 415(1) shall not apply to income consisting of annual payments made by an individual, in connection with the acquisition by him of the whole or part of a business— being payments made under a liability incurred for full consideration.

Payments made in respect of any individual under a liability incurred in connection with an acquisition from a partnership shall only be excluded from the operation of the said section 415(1) by virtue of paragraph (b) of the last foregoing subsection if, and to the extent that, they are made in substitution for, or matched by reductions in, other payments which would themselves be excluded from its operation.

Where the right of a former member of a partnership to payments falling due not more than ten years after he ceased to be a member of that partnership has devolved on his death, subsections (1) and (2) above shall apply to the payments as they would apply if he had not died.

Notwithstanding the said section 12(1), the said section 415(1) shall not apply to income arising under a settlement made by one party to a marriage by way of provision for the other after the dissolution or annulment of the marriage, or while they are separated under an order of a court or under a separation agreement or in such circumstances that the separation is likely to be permanent, being income payable to or applicable for the benefit of that other party.

For the purposes of this section—

This section shall be in substitution for section 12(3) of the Finance Act 1965, and shall have effect for the year 1965-66 as well as for later years of assessment.

Relief shall not be given under section 238 of the Income Tax Act 1952 (relief from surtax where income attributable to a period exceeding a year is received in a year) in respect of any dividends which apart from that section fall to be treated as income of the year 1965-66, being dividends paid by a company resident in the United Kingdom and not being preference dividends.

In this section—

Where on or after 3rd May 1966 a person realises a gain by the exercise, or by the assignment or release, of a right to acquire shares in a body corporate obtained by that person as a director or employee of that or any other body corporate he shall be chargeable to income tax under Schedule E on an amount equal to the amount of his gain as computed in accordance with this section.

Subject to subsection (8) below— (a just apportionment being made of any entire consideration given for the grant of the right to acquire those shares and other shares or otherwise for the grant of the right to acquire those shares and for something besides) : Provided that neither the consideration given for the grant of the right nor any such entire consideration shall be taken to include the performance of any duties in or in connection with the office or employment by reason of which the right was granted, and no part of the amount or value of the consideration given for the grant shall be deducted more than once under this subsection.

Subject to subsection (4) below a person shall, in the case of a right granted by reason of his office or employment, be chargeable to tax under this section in respect of a gain realised by another person— but in a case within paragraph (b) of this subsection the gain realised shall be treated as reduced by the amount of any gain realised by a previous holder on an assignment of the right.

A person shall not be chargeable to tax by virtue of subsection (3)(b) above in respect of any gain realised by another person if the first-mentioned person was divested of the right by operation of law on his bankruptcy or otherwise, but the other person shall be chargeable to tax in respect of the gain under Case VI of Schedule D.

If a right to acquire shares in a body corporate is assigned or released in whole or in part for a consideration which consists of or comprises another right to acquire shares in that or any other body corporate, that right shall not be treated as consideration for the assignment or release, but this section shall apply in relation to it as it applies in relation to the right assigned or released and as if the consideration for its acquisition did not include the value of the right assigned or released but did include the amount or value of the consideration given for the grant of the right assigned or released so far as that has not been offset by any valuable consideration for the assignment or release other than the consideration consisting of the other right.

If as a result of two or more transactions a person ceases to hold a right to acquire shares in a body corporate and he or a connected person comes to hold another right to acquire shares in that or any other body corporate (whether or not acquired from the person to whom the other right was assigned) and any of those transactions was effected under arrangements to which two or more persons holding rights in respect of which tax may be chargeable under this section were parties, those transactions shall be treated for the purposes of the last foregoing subsection as a single transaction whereby the one right is assigned for a consideration which consists of or comprises the other right. This subsection applies in relation to two or more transactions whether they involve an assignment preceding, coinciding with, or subsequent to, an acquisition.

This section applies in relation to rights granted at any time in the year 1965-66 or any earlier year of assessment as well as in relation to rights granted in any later year of assessment, but subject to the following subsection.

The amount of the gain realised at any time by the exercise, or by the assignment or release, of a right to acquire shares granted before 3rd May 1966 shall not exceed the difference between the market value of those shares at that time and their market value on 3rd May 1966 (and no gain shall be so realised unless the later value exceeds the earlier value).

For the purposes of this section a right to acquire shares is obtained by a person as a director or employee of a body corporate— and paragraph (a) above shall apply to a right granted by reason of a person's office or employment after he has ceased to hold it if it would apply to a right so granted in the last year of assessment in which he did hold it.

For the purposes of this section— and this section shall apply in relation to any securities (as defined in paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 11 to the Finance Act 1965) issued by a body corporate as it applies in relation to shares in the body corporate.

Schedule 4 to this Act shall apply for the purposes of this section and shall be construed as if contained in this section.

For the financial years 1964 and 1965 the rate at which corporation tax is charged shall be 40 per cent.

Section 49(6) of the Finance Act 1965 (provisional collection of corporation tax) shall have effect subject to the following amendments (under which the latest date for a ways and means resolution fixing the rate of corporation tax for the financial year last ended becomes the same as is, under section 2 of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1913, the latest date for such a resolution imposing income tax for the current year of assessment, and which exclude the conditions in that subsection concerning the agreement of the Commons House of Parliament to such resolutions)—

Subject to this section, in ascertaining under section 85 of the Finance Act 1965 the one year surplus of a company which is a member of a group of companies, there shall be excluded from the dividends taken into account under subsection (3)(a) of that section any dividends paid by another member of the group, and—

If the one year surplus of a company which is a member of a group of companies as determined under subsection (1) above is less than the amount on which the repayments of income tax under the said section 85 by reference to a one year surplus would equal the income tax paid by the company on distributions made by it in the year 1966-67 but before 3rd May 1966, then subsection (1) above shall not apply, but the company's one year surplus shall be determined as if in subsection (2)(a) of the said section 85 the reference to distributions made by the company in the year 1966-67 were restricted to distributions made before 3rd May 1966.

For the purposes of this section a dividend (including a capital dividend) paid on or after 3rd May 1966 shall be regarded as having been paid before that date if—

Part I of Schedule 7 to this Act shall have effect as respects the three year surplus under the said section 85 of a company which is a member of a group of companies and for the purposes of this section and paragraphs 1 to 4 of that Schedule— and the provisions of the said section 85 relating to the one year surplus shall have effect subject to the provisions of Part II of Schedule 7 to this Act.

This section and the said Schedule shall have effect as if they had been enacted when the Finance Act 1965 was enacted.

Section 440(1) of the Income Tax Act 1952 (which, as applied, and extended to tax on chargeable gains, by the Corporation Tax Acts confers an exemption from tax on friendly societies) shall not apply to profits arising from life or endowment business unless that business satisfies the conditions in Part I of Schedule 8 to this Act, and so far as the said section 440(1) relates to profits arising from life or endowment business it shall not exempt—

Subsection (1)(b) above shall not apply to a friendly society if, by the rules of the society, the only life or endowment business which it may carry on is— or business which falls within any two or all three of paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) above taken together.

Subsection (1)(b) above shall not apply to any part of a friendly society's tax exempt life or endowment business which it acquires by way of transfer of engagements or amalgamation from another friendly society, and which consists of business relating to contracts made not later than the time of transfer or amalgamation.

The limits of £500 and £104 in the proviso to section 8(1), and in section 41, of the Friendly Societies Act 1896 (which restrict the life assurance and annuity business which a registered friendly society may transact either generally or with any one person) shall be increased in accordance with Part II of Schedule 8 to this Act, and so much of section 440(1) of the Income Tax Act 1952 as applies limits of those amounts shall cease to have effect, but the said section 440(1) shall not apply to profits arising from life or endowment business consisting of the assurance of gross sums exceeding £500 or of the granting of annuities of annual amounts exceeding £104. In applying the said limits of £500 and £104 any bonus or addition declared upon assurance of a gross sum or annuity shall be disregarded.

Subject to the said section 440(1) of the Income Tax Act 1952, the Corporation Tax Acts shall apply to the life or endowment business carried on by registered friendly societies in the same way as they apply to mutual life assurance business carried on by assurance companies, so however that the Treasury may by regulations contained in a statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the Commons House of Parliament provide that those Acts as so applied shall have effect subject to such modifications and exceptions as may be prescribed by the regulations, and those regulations may in particular require any part of any business to be treated as a separate business.

If a friendly society registered not later than 3rd May 1966 begins after that date to carry on tax exempt life or endowment business or, in the opinion of the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies, begins to carry on tax exempt life or endowment business on an enlarged scale, or of a new character, and it appears to the Chief Registrar, having regard to the restrictions placed on friendly societies registered after the said date by subsection (1)(b) of this section, that for the protection of the revenue it is expedient to do so, he may serve a notice on the friendly society referring to the provisions of this subsection and stating that he is considering the question whether, for the protection of the revenue, it is expedient to give a direction that, as from such date as may be specified in the notice, being the date when in the opinion of the Chief Registrar the relevant change in the society's activities took place, the society is to be treated as one within subsection (1)(b) of this section, and— In the application of this subsection to Scotland for references to the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies there shall be substituted references to the assistant registrar for Scotland.

Nothing in this section shall affect the exemption conferred by section 440(1) of the Income Tax Act 1952 on unregistered friendly societies.

In this section and Schedule 8 to this Act " life or endowment business " means any business within section 8(1)(b) or (d) or (dd) of the Friendly Societies Act 1896 (life insurance and endowments and insurance of money payable on the duration of a life for a specified period) and any other business within the definition of " life assurance business" in section 33(1) of the Insurance Companies Act 1958 but—

In this section and the said Schedule— and references in this section and the said Schedule to a friendly society include references to any branch of that friendly society.

It is hereby declared that for the purposes of this section and the said Schedule a registered friendly society formed on the amalgamation of two or more friendly societies shall be treated as different from the amalgamated societies: Provided that—

This section has effect for corporation tax for the financial year 1966 and later financial years and for income tax for the year 1966-67 and later years of assessment, but nothing in this section shall withdraw exemption under section 440(1) of the Income Tax Act 1952 for profits arising from any part of a life or endowment business relating to contracts made not later than 3rd May 1966.

In the application of this section and the said Schedule to a friendly society which is for the time being registered or deemed to be registered in Northern Ireland under the enactments relating to friendly societies in Northern Ireland— and nothing in this section or the said Schedule shall restrict the powers of the Parliament of Northern Ireland to make laws with respect to any matter with respect to which that Parliament has power to make laws.

Subject to subsection (2) of this section, section 16 of the Finance Act 1954 and section 21(4)(a) of the Finance Act 1959 (which provide for giving investment allowances in respect of capital expenditure on certain new assets) and section 21(2) and (4)(b) of the said Act of 1959 (by virtue of which initial allowances in respect of such expenditure are reduced) shall not apply to expenditure incurred on or after 17th January 1966.

Without prejudice to subsection (3) of this section, the foregoing subsection shall not affect the application of any of the enactments specified in Part IV of Schedule 13 to this Act to any expenditure in respect of an asset in so far as that expenditure consists (and is stated in the certificate required by subsection (7) of the said section 16 or, as the case may be, by paragraph 1 of Schedule 5 to the said Act of 1959 to consist) of the payment of sums payable under a contract entered into on a date (to be specified in that certificate) not later than 16th January 1966 where that asset is brought into use not later than 16th January 1968.

No investment allowance under the said section 16 or the said section 21(4)(a) and no initial allowance under section 265(1), 279(1) or 306 of the Income Tax Act 1952 or under section 17(1)(a) of the Finance Act 1956 shall be made in respect of so much of any expenditure as is taken into account for the purposes of any relevant grant made towards that expenditure, or be made by virtue of section 332(3) of the said Act of 1952 in respect of a proportionate part of any contribution towards that expenditure; and, if any such grant is made after the making of any such allowance, that allowance shall to that extent be withdrawn. In this subsection, the expression " relevant grant " means a grant towards capital expenditure incurred by a person carrying on a business, being— and in either case being a grant declared by the Treasury by order made by statutory instrument to be relevant for the purposes of the withholding or withdrawal of investment and initial allowances.

Where the amount of any relevant grant within the meaning of subsection (3) of this section towards any expenditure is repaid in whole or in part by the grantee to the grantor, then to the extent to which it has been so repaid it shall be deemed never to have been made.

All such assessments or adjustments of assessments to income tax, corporation tax or profits tax shall be made as may be necessary in consequence of the provisions of subsection (3) or (4) of this section and, notwithstanding anything in any other provision, the time within which such an assessment or adjustment may be made shall not expire before the expiration of three years from the end of the chargeable period in which the grant referred to in the said subsection (3) or, as the case may be, the repayment referred to in the said subsection (4) was made.

This section shall be construed as if it were contained in Part X of the Income Tax Act 1952.

Any district which, immediately before 17th January 1966, was a development district for the purposes of sections 38 and 39 of the Finance Act 1963 (which relate to the computation of writing down allowances for new machinery and plant, or, as the case may be, for new mining expenditure, in certain districts in Great Britain and in districts within Northern Ireland) shall be deemed to have ceased to be such a development district on that date and, save by virtue of subsection (7) of the said section 38, no district shall be treated as such a development district as respects any period falling on or after that date.

Subject to subsection (3) of this section, the said subsection (7) (which makes provision for the application of the said section 38 to a district in Great Britain which ceases to be a development district and, as applied by subsection (3) of the said section 39, makes the like provision in relation to the said section 39) shall have effect as if the words " in Great Britain " were omitted.

Notwithstanding anything in the said subsection (7), the said section 38 or 39 shall not apply in relation to a writing down allowance in respect of, or of any contribution towards, any expenditure if a relevant grant within the meaning of section 35(3) of this Act is made in respect of that expenditure and that grant—

Subsection (5) of section 35 of this Act shall have effect for the purposes of this section as if the references in that subsection to subsection (3) of that section included references to subsection (3) of this section.

Vehicles of a construction primarily suited for the conveyance of goods or burden of any description shall be excluded from section 13(1) of the Finance Act 1965 (which makes certain cars ineligible for initial allowances).

This section has effect as respects expenditure incurred on the provision of vehicles after 16th January 1966, and all such adjustments shall be made, whether by repayment or discharge of tax or otherwise, as are required to give effect to the provisions of this section.

Expenditure shall not be treated for the purposes of this section as having been incurred after 16th January 1966 by reason only of section 279(2) of the Income Tax Act 1952 (which relates to expenditure incurred by a person for the purposes of a trade before he begins to carry it on).

Any redundancy payment, and the corresponding amount of any other employer's payment, shall be exempt from income tax under Schedule E.

Where a redundancy payment or other employer's payment is made in respect of employment wholly in a trade, profession or vocation carried on by the employer, and within the charge to income tax or corporation tax, the amount of the redundancy payment or the corresponding amount of the other employer's payment shall (if not otherwise so allowable) be allowable as a deduction in computing for the purposes of Schedule D the profits or gains or losses of the trade, profession or vocation, but if it is so allowed by virtue of this section the amount of the rebate recoverable shall (if it is not otherwise to be so treated) be treated as a receipt to be brought into account in computing those profits or gains ; and if the employer's payment was made after the discontinuance of the trade, profession or vocation the net amount so deductible shall be treated as if it were a payment made on the last day on which the trade, profession or vocation was carried on.

Where a redundancy payment or other employer's payment is made in respect of employment wholly in a business carried on by the employer, and expenses of management of the business are eligible for relief under section 57 of the Finance Act 1965 as extended by section 67(1)(b) of that Act (investment companies and unit trusts) the amount by which the redundancy payment, or the corresponding amount of the other employer's payment, exceeds the recoverable rebate shall (if not otherwise so allowable) be allowable as expenses of management eligible for relief under that section; and if the employer's payment was made after the discontinuance of the business the net amount so allowable shall be treated as if it were expenses of management incurred on the last day on which the business was carried on.

Where a redundancy payment or other employer's payment is made in respect of employment wholly in maintaining or managing property the expenses of maintaining or managing which were eligible for relief under paragraph 1 or paragraph 13 of Schedule 4 to the Finance Act 1963 (allowable deductions for tax under Case VIII and certain other tax), the amount by which the redundancy payment or the corresponding amount of the other employer's payment exceeds the recoverable rebate shall (if not otherwise allowable under that Schedule) be treated for the purposes of the said Schedule as a payment made by the employer in respect of the maintenance or management of the property, or of such part of it as he may elect; and if the employer's payment was made after the latest time when it could be taken into account for the purposes of relief under the said Schedule 4 as a payment in respect of the maintenance or management of the property or any part of it, it shall be treated as having been made at that time.

Relief shall not be given under subsections (2), (3) and (4) of this section, or otherwise, more than once in respect of any employer's payment, and if the employee was being employed by the employer in such a way that different parts of the employee's remuneration fell for income tax or corporation tax purposes to be treated in different ways, the amount by which the redundancy payment, or the corresponding amount of the other employer's payment, exceeds the recoverable rebate shall be apportioned to the different capacities in which the employee was employed, and subsections (2), (3) and (4) above shall apply separately to the employment in those capacities, and by reference to the apportioned part of the said amount, instead of by reference to the full amount of the employer's payment, and the full amount of the rebate.

Where the Minister pays a sum under section 32 of the Redundancy Payments Act 1965 or section 42 of the Contracts of Employment and Redundancy Payments Act (Northern Ireland) 1965 in respect of an employer's payment this section shall apply as if that sum had been paid on account of that redundancy or other employer's payment and, so far as the employer has reimbursed the Minister, as if it had been so paid by the employer.

In this section " redundancy payment", " employer's payment " and " rebate " have the same meaning as in Part II of the Redundancy Payments Act 1965 or Part III of the Contracts of Employment and Redundancy Payments Act (Northern Ireland) 1965, and— and a source of income is " within the charge to " income tax or corporation tax if that tax is chargeable on the income arising from it, or would be so chargeable if there were any such income.

In subsection (1) above the reference to tax under Schedule E does not include a reference to tax under section 37 of the Finance Act 1960 (which relates only to sums exceeding a limit of £5,000 or more) and accordingly payments exempted by subsection (1) above may be taken into account under that section.

This section shall apply as respects payments made on or after 6th December 1965 (which is the appointed day under the Redundancy Payments Act 1965 and the said Act of Northern Ireland), and as respects tax for past years of assessment and profits tax chargeable accounting periods, and the reference in subsection (3) of this section to section 57 of the Finance Act 1965 includes a reference to section 425 of the Income Tax Act 1952 as extended by section 438 of that Act and section 69 of the Finance Act 1960 (all of which are repealed by the Finance Act 1965).

For the purposes of the definition of tax advantage in section 43 (4) (g) of the Finance Act 1960 it shall be assumed that a person who might have received from a company any dividend or other distribution (as defined for the purposes of the Corporation Tax Acts) would have borne the income tax chargeable under Schedule F which the company would have had to account for under section 47(3) of the Finance Act 1965 in respect of the distribution, and an assessment under section 28(3) of the Finance Act 1960 to counteract a tax advantage consisting of the avoidance or reduction of an assessment to income tax which would be payable by a company under the said section 47(3) in respect of a distribution may be made under Case VI of Schedule D on a person other than the company, and may be so made in addition to any assessment to counteract a tax advantage in respect of surtax.

An assessment so made on a person other than the company may be of an amount arrived at without regard to any set off to which the company would have been entitled under Schedule 12 to the Finance Act 1965.

After paragraph (2)(d) in the said section 28 there shall be added the following paragraph—

So far as the paragraph (e) added to the said section 28(2) by subsection (3) above relates to share capital other than redeemable share capital, it shall not apply unless and except to the extent that the share capital is repaid (in a winding-up or otherwise), and where the said section 28 applies to a person by virtue of the said paragraph (e) on the repayment of any share capital any assessment to tax under subsection (3) of the said section 28 shall be an assessment to tax for the year in which the share capital is repaid.

Any notice or notification under subsection (3) or (4) of the said section 28, or under section 29(b) of the Finance Act 1960, concerning the application of the said section 28 to a person who has died may be given or issued to his personal representatives, and the provisions of the said section 28 relating to the making of a statutory declaration, to rights of appeal and to the giving of information shall be construed accordingly.

In this section— and the references in subsection (4) above to the repayment of share capital include references to any distribution made in respect of any shares in a winding up or dissolution of the company.

The amendments made by this section in sections 28 and 29 of the Finance Act 1960, and in the definition of tax advantage as it applies for the purposes of that section, shall not apply to a person in respect of any transaction or transactions in securities if they were carried out before 3rd May 1966, and if any change in the nature of any activities carried on by any person, being a change necessary in order that the tax advantage should be obtainable in consequence of the transaction or transactions, was also effected before that day, but nothing in this section shall be taken to prejudice the operation of the said section 28, without this section, in any such case.

In the case of a death after 3rd May 1966 the provisions of this section shall apply in determining for the purposes of section 2(1)(b) of the Finance Act 1894 whether an interest in property ceased on the death of the deceased and the extent to which a benefit accrued or arose by the cesser of that interest.

If the deceased had immediately before his death an interest in the property limited to cease on his death, then in determining the questions in subsection (1) above as regards that interest, any other interest in that property belonging to the deceased at his death shall be treated as if it belonged to someone other than the deceased.

If immediately before the death of the deceased a number of persons were, as beneficiaries under a discretionary trust, together entitled to an interest in the property limited to cease on the death and the deceased was then one of those persons, or at some earlier time had been a beneficiary under that discretionary trust, then, in determining the questions in subsection (1) above as regards that interest, any other interest in the property which, whether as arising from the same trusts or otherwise, belongs to those who immediately before the death were the beneficiaries under the discretionary trust shall be treated as being held by persons other than those beneficiaries, and other than the deceased.

It is hereby declared that this section has effect for the purposes of estate duty not only as respects the question whether property is deemed to pass on a death but also as respects the questions—

In this section " discretionary trust " includes a trust under which the disposition of any of the trust income is at the discretion of the trustees or of any other person.

This section has effect as respects securities which the Treasury issue or have issued before or after the passing of this Act subject to any condition authorised by section 47 of the Finance (No. 2) Act 1915 or section 22 of the Finance (No. 2) Act 1931 for an exemption from taxation so long as the securities are in the beneficial ownership of persons neither domiciled nor ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, and this section is enacted for the purpose of preventing that exemption from enuring for the benefit of, or of the estate of, a person domiciled or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom.

Where in respect of any government securities any such exemption applies apart from this section to estate duty leviable on the death after 3rd May 1966 of a person who immediately before the death was domiciled or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, then, subject to the exceptions provided by the following provisions of this section.— but so far as the duty imposed by paragraph (b) above has not been paid by the deceased's personal representatives accountability for the duty shall be imposed on any person who, if the exemption had not applied to the duty, would have been accountable for it under the enactments relating to estate duty; and any payment made by the personal representatives shall for the purposes of this subsection be regarded as a payment of the duty imposed by paragraph (b) above only so far as there is no other estate duty leviable on the death for which they are accountable and which has not been paid.

Subsection (2) above shall not apply where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, or on an appeal under section 10 of the Finance Act 1894 of the court entertaining the appeal, that the circumstances in which, apart from this section, the exemption applies in respect of any government securities were not brought about for the purpose, or for purposes which include the purpose, of obtaining the benefit of the exemption directly or indirectly for, or for the estate of, a person domiciled or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, or for a company to which section 56 of the Finance Act 1940 (closely controlled companies) applies and in which a person domiciled or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom has an interest; and where the circumstances in which the exemption so applies in respect of any government securities were not brought about by the deceased subsection (2) above shall not apply so as by virtue of paragraph (b) of that subsection to make the personal representatives accountable for duty or to increase the amount of duty beyond what would have been due had there been no exemption.

Subsection (2) above shall not apply in respect of any government securities if no person who would be accountable for estate duty leviable on the death on the government securities on the assumption that the exemption did not apply in respect of those government securities is a person domiciled or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom or a company to which the said section 56 of the Finance Act 1940 applies.

If a donee or other person being, on the assumption in subsection (4) above, contingently accountable for estate duty pre-deceases the deceased, that subsection shall apply, so far as it relates to that donee or other person, by reference to him and not by reference to his personal representatives or successors in title, and according to where he was domiciled or ordinarily resident at his death.

If the persons who would, on the assumption in subsection (4) above, be so accountable consist of or include trustees under a settlement created before the death, whether or not subsisting at the death, subsection (4) above shall not have effect but subsection (2) above shall not apply in respect of the government securities if and to the extent that it is shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, or on an appeal under section 10 of the Finance Act 1894 of the court entertaining the appeal, that the burden of the duty, having regard to interests subsisting immediately after the death, would be borne by any person who is neither domiciled nor ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, and for the purposes of this subsection interests in income, interests in capital, interests in possession and interests in reversion shall all be taken into account.

If interests under a trust subsisting at the death fall to be taken into account under subsection (6) above, and all interests in the trust other than reversionary interests are interests contingent on the exercise of the discretion of any of the trustees or of any other person, subsection (2) above shall not be displaced by subsection (6) if any of the persons interested in the trust is domiciled or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom.

Subsection (6), and not subsection (4), above shall apply if the persons who would, on the assumption in subsection (4) above be so accountable consist of or include a company to which the said section 56 of the Finance Act 1940 applies, and the assumptions made in the said section 56(1) as to the company holding its assets in trust shall be made for the purposes of subsection (6) above, taking the interests in the company as they subsisted immediately before the death ; and similarly where under subsection (6), with or without this subsection, the burden falling on any person who is a company to which the said section 56 applies is in question, the same assumptions shall be made as respects the company.

Nothing in subsections (4) to (8) above shall prevent subsection (2) above from applying in respect of any government securities settled under a settlement revocable in whole or in part at any time after the death of the deceased person at the instance of any person.

Section 8(4) of the Finance Act 1894 (which, where an executor is not accountable for estate duty, renders the beneficiaries and others accountable therefor) shall apply as if the words referring to the executor not being accountable were omitted both for the purposes of accountability for estate duty leviable by virtue of this section and also for the purposes of this section as it relates to the persons who would be accountable for estate duty on the assumptions in subsections (2), (4) and (6) of this section.

For the purposes of this section—

If any property comprised in a gift inter vivos, and not settled by the gift, is deemed for the purposes of estate duty to pass on a death and capital gains tax or corporation tax is chargeable on a chargeable gain accruing on a disposal by the donee or his personal representatives of an asset which is for the time being comprised in the gift, and which has not been settled by the donee, being a disposal— the principal value of the property for the purposes of estate duty on the death shall be reduced by the amount of that tax, and that reduction shall be made before any reduction of that value under section 64 of the Finance Act 1960 (graduation of charge by reference to period between gift and death).

If any property ceasing to be settled property is by virtue of subsection (8) proviso or subsection (12) proviso of section 38 of the Finance Act 1957 to be treated as comprised in a gift inter vivos deemed for purposes of estate duty to pass on a death, or as the case may be as comprised in property in which an interest within section 43 of the Finance Act 1940 subsisted, and capital gains tax is chargeable on a chargeable gain accruing on the disposal under section 25(3) of the Finance Act 1965 deemed to be effected by the trustee of the settlement on the occasion of the property ceasing to be settled property, the principal value of the property for the purposes of estate duty on the death shall be reduced by the amount of that tax, and that reduction shall be made before any reduction of that value under section 64 of the Finance Act 1960.

Where— a part of any estate duty payable in respect of that asset on the death shall be treated for the purposes of Part III of the Finance Act 1965 as if it were an amount of expenditure incurred by the donee on the asset and falling within the said paragraph 4(1)(b); and that part shall be the proportion of the duty which the said excess bears to the said principal value.

References in this section to any amount of capital gains tax or corporation tax are references to the amount which would not have been payable if the relevant asset had not been disposed of, and, if any part of the chargeable gain accruing on a disposal within subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section is not chargeable to capital gains tax or corporation tax in the year of assessment or accounting period in which it accrues because of relief for losses accruing in that or any earlier year or accounting period, the amount of tax in respect of that part of the chargeable gain shall be the tax which would have been charged on that part of the gain if it had been the only gain accruing in the year or accounting period and had all been chargeable.

This section has effect as respects capital gains tax for the year 1965-66 and later years of assessment and applies in relation to deaths and disposals at any time before or after the passing of this Act.

Subject to subsection (2) of this section, in respect of each contribution week beginning on or after 5th September 1966, an employer shall be liable, in respect of each person in respect of whom the employer is liable to pay an employer's insurance contribution for that week, to pay a tax (to be known as the selective employment tax and hereafter in this section and in Schedule 11 to this Act referred to as " the tax ") of the following amount, namely—

Where an employer's insurance contribution in respect of any person for any contribution week is reduced by virtue of regulations made or having effect as if made— the tax shall not be payable in respect of that person for that week.

Any amount payable by way of the tax shall be collected together with employer's insurance contributions and—

The expenses of the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance and of any other department of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom (except the Postmaster General) incurred for the purposes of this section shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament: Provided that so much of the sums payable into the Exchequer under subsection (3) (a) of this section as the Treasury may determine to be equal to the aggregate of the said expenses and any such amounts as are mentioned in section 85(5) of the National Insurance Act 1965 (which relates to liabilities for pensions and other payments and to the use of Crown premises), in so far as those amounts are determined by the Treasury to be attributable to the execution of this section, may be treated as if they were receipts falling within section 2 of the Public Accounts and Charges Act 1891 and may be directed to be appropriated in aid accordingly.

For the purposes of payments by the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance to the Postmaster General under section 85(2) of the National Insurance Act 1965, work done by the Postmaster General in the execution of this section shall be treated as done in the execution of the said Act of 1965; and in estimating the expenses referred to in subsection (4) of this section there shall be included in the expenses of that Minister the amounts of any such payments in so far as those amounts are determined by the Treasury to be attributable to the execution of this section.

The provisions of Schedule 11 to this Act shall have effect for the purposes of this section.

Subject to subsection (2) of this section, this section and the said Schedule 11 shall apply in the case of persons employed by or under the Crown in like manner as if the employer were a private person.

For the purposes of section 6 of the Government of Ireland Act 1920, this section and the said Schedule 11 shall be deemed to be contained in an Act passed before the appointed day.

In this section and the said Schedule 11, the following expressions have the following meanings respectively, that is to say— and, save where the context otherwise requires, any other expressions used in this section or the said Schedule 11 have the same meanings, in their application to Great Britain, as in the said Act of 1965 or, in their application to Northern Ireland, as in the said Act of 1966.

Where, after the passing of this Act, the trade of any body corporate other than a limited liability company is transferred to a harbour authority by or under a certified harbour reorganisation scheme which provides also for the dissolution of the transferor—

Where, after the passing of this Act, a part only of such a trade is transferred to a harbour authority by or under a certified harbour reorganisation scheme, and the transferor continues to carry on the remainder of the trade, or any such trade is, by or under a certified harbour reorganisation scheme which provides also for the dissolution of the transferor, transferred in parts to two or more harbour authorities, the provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b) of the foregoing subsection and of Schedule 12 to this Act shall apply as if the transferred part, or each of the transferred parts, had been at all times a separate trade.

Where a part of any trade is to be treated by virtue of subsection (2) above as having been a separate trade over any period there shall be made any necessary adjustments of accounting periods, and such apportionments as may be just of receipts, expenses, allowances or charges.

Where the trade carried on by any body corporate was, by or under a certified harbour reorganisation scheme, transferred to a harbour authority in the year 1965-66—

Where a certified harbour reorganisation scheme contains provision for the transfer of an undertaking, or of any other description of property, to a harbour authority, then, in considering whether any and if so what duty is payable under section 12 of the Finance Act 1895 (which relates to the stamp duty payable in connection with certain statutory conveyances), the consideration for the transfer shall be left out of account; and no stamp duty shall be payable on any contract or agreement for any such transfer if the contract or agreement is conditional on the making and certification of a harbour reorganisation scheme.

In this section— and in this section and in Schedule 12 to this Act " transferor ", in relation to any trade, means the body from whom the trade is transferred, whether or not the transfer is effected by that body.

This section, except so far as it relates to stamp duties, shall be construed as one with the Corporation Tax Acts.

The Commissioners may enter into an agreement with any person by whom instruments chargeable with stamp duty by virtue of section 77 or 79 of the Finance (1909-10) Act 1910 are made and executed in the course of that person's business whereby—

Any such instrument marked in accordance with any such agreement as aforesaid shall be treated as duly stamped for the purposes of subsection (2) of section 78 of the said Act of 1910; and the reference in subsection (3) of that section to the provisions of that section shall be construed as a reference to those provisions as modified by any such agreement.

Where, under any such agreement as aforesaid, a sum has been paid to the Commissioners in accordance with subsection (1)(a) of this section by the other party to the agreement, the Commissioners may, on a claim made not later than two years after that sum was so paid, repay so much of that sum as they are satisfied can no longer be required for discharging any future liability of that other party to pay amounts of stamp duty.

Except in so far as the context otherwise requires, any reference in sections 9 and 10 of the Stamp Duties Management Act 1891 (which relate to allowances for spoiled stamps) to a stamp shall include a reference to any such indication of the payment and amount of stamp duty as is referred to in subsection (1)(b) of this section.

The maximum amount chargeable by way of stamp duty on any policy of life insurance made on or after 1st August 1966 for a period not exceeding two years shall be sixpence.

For the purposes of this section, a policy shall be treated as made for a period exceeding two years if it contains any provision whereby it may become available for a period exceeding two years in all.

Where, at any time after the making of a policy on which the duty chargeable would, but for subsection (1) above, have exceeded sixpence, the policy is varied so that it becomes or may become available for a period exceeding two years in all, the policy shall become chargeable with the same duty as would have been chargeable if it had been made on the date of the variation for a period exceeding two years, and may be stamped accordingly, without penalty, at any time within thirty days after that date.

A licence under section 3 of the Stamp Duties Management Act 1891 shall not be required by any person to deal in postage stamps, and accordingly in that Act—

In this section, the expression " postage stamp " means a stamp within the meaning of the said Act of 1891 for denoting an amount of postage, whether or not it can also be used for revenue purposes.

This section shall come into force at the expiration of the period of three months beginning with the date of the passing of this Act.

Subject to subsection (3) of this section, the Commissioners of Inland Revenue may by notice in writing served on any chargeable person within the meaning of Part III of Schedule 8 to the Income Tax Act 1952 (persons entrusted with or obtaining, payment of foreign dividends etc., or concerned in certain dealings in coupons) require him, within such time as may be specified in the notice, to make available at his premises for inspection by an officer authorised by the Commissioners all such books and other documents in the possession or control of that person as the officer may reasonably require for the purpose of determining whether any accounts delivered to the Commissioners by that person under that Schedule are correct and complete.

Part III of the Finance Act 1960 (penalties) shall have effect as if subsection (1) above were among the provisions specified in column 2 of Schedule 6 to that Act.

The Commissioners may grant a certificate exempting any chargeable person from the foregoing provisions of this section, and while the certificate is in force the powers conferred by those provisions shall not be exercisable in relation to that person; and any such certificate may be revoked at any time by the Commissioners, and may contain such terms and conditions as they think proper.

The Board may exercise the powers conferred by this section as respects, and in connection with, any business which is, or has been, carried on by a jobber or dealing broker whose liability to tax in respect of the business is determined on the footing that any excess of his payments in respect of interest on securities over his receipts in respect thereof, being payments made or receipts accrued in pursuance of a contract for the sale or purchase of the securities, is to be treated for all the purposes of the Income Tax Acts or the Corporation Tax Acts as an annual payment made by him.

With a view to obtaining information about transactions in the course of a business within subsection (1) above, the Board may serve on the jobber or dealing broker by whom the business is or has been carried on a notice requiring him to make available within a time specified in the notice, for inspection by an inspector or other officer of the Board, all such books, accounts and other documents in his possession or power as may be specified or described in the notice, being books, accounts or other documents which in the opinion of the Board contain or may contain information directly or indirectly relating to any such transactions.

The Board may serve on any broker a notice requiring him to make available within a time specified in the notice, for inspection by an inspector or other officer of the Board, all such books, accounts or other documents in his possession or power as may be specified or described in the notice, being books, accounts or other documents which in the opinion of the Board contain or may contain information relating directly or indirectly to transactions in the course of a business within subsection (1) above.

The Board may by notice in writing require—

Section 250(4) of the Income Tax Act 1952 (power to obtain information from nominee shareholders) shall apply for the purpose of obtaining (from any persons to whom that section applies, whether brokers or jobbers or not) information directly or indirectly relating to any transactions in the course of a business within subsection (1) above, and shall so apply as if for references to shares in a company there were substituted references to securities.

The Board may not exercise their powers under the foregoing provisions of this section for the purpose of obtaining information relating to transactions in any income tax year of assessment ending more than six years before the service of the notice, but, subject to the foregoing provisions of this subsection, the transactions in respect of which they may exercise those powers shall include transactions before the passing of this Act.

Part III of the Finance Act 1960 (penalties) shall have effect as if subsections (2), (3) and (4) of this section were included in the second column of Schedule 6 to that Act.

In this section—

Subsections (2) and (3) below shall have effect with respect to the Members' Contributory Pension (Northern Ireland) Fund constituted under section 3 of the Ministerial Salaries and Members' Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 1965, and sums payable thereout under section 12(1) of that Act (transfer to other pension schemes of sums representing value of accrued pension rights).

Section 385(2) of the Income Tax Act 1952 (exemption from tax in respect of income of the House of Commons Members' Fund) shall apply in relation to the Fund, and accordingly the Fund shall be included among those referred to in section 36(2) of the Finance Act 1965 (by virtue of which, in the case of funds the income of which is exempt from tax under enactments which include the said section 385, gains accruing from the acquisition and disposal of assets are not chargeable gains). This subsection shall have effect for the year 1965-66 as well as subsequent years of assessment.

Any sum payable out of the Fund as mentioned in subsection (1) above shall be treated for the purposes of the Income Tax Acts as having been paid in commutation of an annuity payable by a superannuation fund within the meaning of section 379 of the Income Tax Act 1952 (approved superannuation funds), and the Fund shall be treated as such a superannuation fund for the purposes of any regulations under that section.

For the purposes of Part III of the Finance Act 1956 (retirement and other annuities), so much of the salary of the holder of any office to which this subsection applies who is also a Member of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland as is equal to the salary to which, pursuant to any Resolution of that House relating to the remuneration of Members, he would be entitled if he did not hold that office shall be treated as remuneration from the office of Member, and not from the office to which this subsection applies, and shall accordingly be treated for the purposes of Part I of Schedule 3 to that Act as pensionable emoluments from the office of Member. The offices to which this subsection applies are those of Chairman of Ways and Means of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland and Attorney General for Northern Ireland.

No surcharge, surcharge repayment, distribution payment or distribution repayment shall be payable under the Sugar Act 1956 in respect of sugar or invert sugar used in the manufacture of concentrated cane juice, partly inverted, of the kind known as high test, invert, or fancy molasses.

Section 8 of that Act (which, as amended by Schedule 5 to the Finance Act 1962, provides for surcharge repayments by reference to the circumstances in which drawback of sugar duty was allowable immediately before 10th April 1962) shall have effect as if, immediately before that day, section 218(1)(c) of the Customs and Excise Act 1952 (which provided for drawback on sugar, etc., used in the brewing of beer warehoused for exportation or for use as stores) had been amended by substituting, for the words from " used " to the end, the words " used in the manufacture of beer exported, shipped as stores, or warehoused for exportation or for use as stores ".

This Act may be cited as the Finance Act 1966.

In this Act Part I shall be construed as one with the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979; . . . ; Part III shall be construed as one with the Corporation Tax Acts; . . . ; . . . ; and so much of Part VII as relates to stamp duties shall be construed as one with the Stamp Act 1891.

Any reference in this Act to any other enactment shall, except so far as the context otherwise requires, be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended or applied by or under any other enactment, including this Act.

Except as otherwise expressly provided, such of the provisions of this Act as relate to matters in respect of which the Parliament of Northern Ireland has power to make laws shall not extend to Northern Ireland.

This Act, in so far as it affects the operation of the Sugar Act 1956, shall extend to the Isle of Man.

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The enactments mentioned in Schedule 13 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of that Schedule, but subject to any provision in relation thereto made at the end of any Part of that Schedule.

This section has effect as respects the application of the proviso to section 227(2) of the Income Tax Act 1952 (under which certain non-residents are eligible for the personal reliefs from income tax subject to an adjustment made by reference to the amount of income tax payable on certain assumptions) to an individual whose income includes any dividends, interest, royalties or other profits (in this section referred to as income eligible for double taxation relief) which are chargeable to income tax but in respect of which relief (other than credit) is available under an Order in Council under section 347 of the Income Tax Act 1952, or under section 31 of this Act, so as to limit the rate of income tax so chargeable (but not so as to confer an exemption and make it income which is not subject to income tax charged in the United Kingdom).

Subject to subsection (3) below, for the purposes of the said proviso— and accordingly where this subsection applies the amount of the tax chargeable in respect of the income eligible for double taxation relief shall not be affected by the said section 227(2).

This section shall not operate so as to make the tax payable by an individual for a year of assessment higher than it would have been if the double taxation relief had not been available.

This section has effect as respects the year 1966-67 and subsequent years of assessment.

Section 40(1)(a) of the Finance Act 1956 (which exempts from income tax a pension paid under the authority of the Pensions (India, Pakistan and Burma) Act 1955 if it is the income of a person not resident in the United Kingdom, but not the part of the pension paid by virtue of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1962 or earlier Pensions (Increase) Acts) shall have effect subject to the provisions of this section.

The said section 40(1) shall not apply to so much of any pension of the description in paragraph (a) thereof as is paid by virtue of the application to the pension of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1965 or of any Act passed after this Act for purposes corresponding to the purposes of the said Act of 1965.

Notwithstanding section 12(1) of the Finance Act 1965 (which extends section 415(1) of the Income Tax Act 1952 so as to treat certain income arising under a settlement as being for surtax purposes the income of the settlor) the said section 415(1) shall not apply to income consisting of annual payments made under a partnership agreement to or for the benefit of a former member, or the widow or dependants of a deceased former member, of the partnership, being payments made under a liability incurred for full consideration.

Notwithstanding the said section 12(1), the said section 415(1) shall not apply to income consisting of annual payments made by an individual, in connection with the acquisition by him of the whole or part of a business— being payments made under a liability incurred for full consideration.

Payments made in respect of any individual under a liability incurred in connection with an acquisition from a partnership shall only be excluded from the operation of the said section 415(1) by virtue of paragraph (b) of the last foregoing subsection if, and to the extent that, they are made in substitution for, or matched by reductions in, other payments which would themselves be excluded from its operation.

Where the right of a former member of a partnership to payments falling due not more than ten years after he ceased to be a member of that partnership has devolved on his death, subsections (1) and (2) above shall apply to the payments as they would apply if he had not died.

Notwithstanding the said section 12(1), the said section 415(1) shall not apply to income arising under a settlement made by one party to a marriage by way of provision for the other after the dissolution or annulment of the marriage, or while they are separated under an order of a court or under a separation agreement or in such circumstances that the separation is likely to be permanent, being income payable to or applicable for the benefit of that other party.

For the purposes of this section—

This section shall be in substitution for section 12(3) of the Finance Act 1965, and shall have effect for the year 1965-66 as well as for later years of assessment.

Relief shall not be given under section 238 of the Income Tax Act 1952 (relief from surtax where income attributable to a period exceeding a year is received in a year) in respect of any dividends which apart from that section fall to be treated as income of the year 1965-66, being dividends paid by a company resident in the United Kingdom and not being preference dividends.

In this section—

Where on or after 3rd May 1966 a person realises a gain by the exercise, or by the assignment or release, of a right to acquire shares in a body corporate obtained by that person as a director or employee of that or any other body corporate he shall be chargeable to income tax under Schedule E on an amount equal to the amount of his gain as computed in accordance with this section.

Subject to subsection (8) below— (a just apportionment being made of any entire consideration given for the grant of the right to acquire those shares and other shares or otherwise for the grant of the right to acquire those shares and for something besides) : Provided that neither the consideration given for the grant of the right nor any such entire consideration shall be taken to include the performance of any duties in or in connection with the office or employment by reason of which the right was granted, and no part of the amount or value of the consideration given for the grant shall be deducted more than once under this subsection.

Subject to subsection (4) below a person shall, in the case of a right granted by reason of his office or employment, be chargeable to tax under this section in respect of a gain realised by another person— but in a case within paragraph (b) of this subsection the gain realised shall be treated as reduced by the amount of any gain realised by a previous holder on an assignment of the right.

A person shall not be chargeable to tax by virtue of subsection (3)(b) above in respect of any gain realised by another person if the first-mentioned person was divested of the right by operation of law on his bankruptcy or otherwise, but the other person shall be chargeable to tax in respect of the gain under Case VI of Schedule D.

If a right to acquire shares in a body corporate is assigned or released in whole or in part for a consideration which consists of or comprises another right to acquire shares in that or any other body corporate, that right shall not be treated as consideration for the assignment or release, but this section shall apply in relation to it as it applies in relation to the right assigned or released and as if the consideration for its acquisition did not include the value of the right assigned or released but did include the amount or value of the consideration given for the grant of the right assigned or released so far as that has not been offset by any valuable consideration for the assignment or release other than the consideration consisting of the other right.

If as a result of two or more transactions a person ceases to hold a right to acquire shares in a body corporate and he or a connected person comes to hold another right to acquire shares in that or any other body corporate (whether or not acquired from the person to whom the other right was assigned) and any of those transactions was effected under arrangements to which two or more persons holding rights in respect of which tax may be chargeable under this section were parties, those transactions shall be treated for the purposes of the last foregoing subsection as a single transaction whereby the one right is assigned for a consideration which consists of or comprises the other right. This subsection applies in relation to two or more transactions whether they involve an assignment preceding, coinciding with, or subsequent to, an acquisition.

This section applies in relation to rights granted at any time in the year 1965-66 or any earlier year of assessment as well as in relation to rights granted in any later year of assessment, but subject to the following subsection.

The amount of the gain realised at any time by the exercise, or by the assignment or release, of a right to acquire shares granted before 3rd May 1966 shall not exceed the difference between the market value of those shares at that time and their market value on 3rd May 1966 (and no gain shall be so realised unless the later value exceeds the earlier value).

For the purposes of this section a right to acquire shares is obtained by a person as a director or employee of a body corporate— and paragraph (a) above shall apply to a right granted by reason of a person's office or employment after he has ceased to hold it if it would apply to a right so granted in the last year of assessment in which he did hold it.

For the purposes of this section— and this section shall apply in relation to any securities (as defined in paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 11 to the Finance Act 1965) issued by a body corporate as it applies in relation to shares in the body corporate.

Schedule 4 to this Act shall apply for the purposes of this section and shall be construed as if contained in this section.

For the financial years 1964 and 1965 the rate at which corporation tax is charged shall be 40 per cent.

Section 49(6) of the Finance Act 1965 (provisional collection of corporation tax) shall have effect subject to the following amendments (under which the latest date for a ways and means resolution fixing the rate of corporation tax for the financial year last ended becomes the same as is, under section 2 of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1913, the latest date for such a resolution imposing income tax for the current year of assessment, and which exclude the conditions in that subsection concerning the agreement of the Commons House of Parliament to such resolutions)—

Subject to this section, in ascertaining under section 85 of the Finance Act 1965 the one year surplus of a company which is a member of a group of companies, there shall be excluded from the dividends taken into account under subsection (3)(a) of that section any dividends paid by another member of the group, and—

If the one year surplus of a company which is a member of a group of companies as determined under subsection (1) above is less than the amount on which the repayments of income tax under the said section 85 by reference to a one year surplus would equal the income tax paid by the company on distributions made by it in the year 1966-67 but before 3rd May 1966, then subsection (1) above shall not apply, but the company's one year surplus shall be determined as if in subsection (2)(a) of the said section 85 the reference to distributions made by the company in the year 1966-67 were restricted to distributions made before 3rd May 1966.

For the purposes of this section a dividend (including a capital dividend) paid on or after 3rd May 1966 shall be regarded as having been paid before that date if—

Part I of Schedule 7 to this Act shall have effect as respects the three year surplus under the said section 85 of a company which is a member of a group of companies and for the purposes of this section and paragraphs 1 to 4 of that Schedule— and the provisions of the said section 85 relating to the one year surplus shall have effect subject to the provisions of Part II of Schedule 7 to this Act.

This section and the said Schedule shall have effect as if they had been enacted when the Finance Act 1965 was enacted.

Section 440(1) of the Income Tax Act 1952 (which, as applied, and extended to tax on chargeable gains, by the Corporation Tax Acts confers an exemption from tax on friendly societies) shall not apply to profits arising from life or endowment business unless that business satisfies the conditions in Part I of Schedule 8 to this Act, and so far as the said section 440(1) relates to profits arising from life or endowment business it shall not exempt—

Subsection (1)(b) above shall not apply to a friendly society if, by the rules of the society, the only life or endowment business which it may carry on is— or business which falls within any two or all three of paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) above taken together.

Subsection (1)(b) above shall not apply to any part of a friendly society's tax exempt life or endowment business which it acquires by way of transfer of engagements or amalgamation from another friendly society, and which consists of business relating to contracts made not later than the time of transfer or amalgamation.

The limits of £500 and £104 in the proviso to section 8(1), and in section 41, of the Friendly Societies Act 1896 (which restrict the life assurance and annuity business which a registered friendly society may transact either generally or with any one person) shall be increased in accordance with Part II of Schedule 8 to this Act, and so much of section 440(1) of the Income Tax Act 1952 as applies limits of those amounts shall cease to have effect, but the said section 440(1) shall not apply to profits arising from life or endowment business consisting of the assurance of gross sums exceeding £500 or of the granting of annuities of annual amounts exceeding £104. In applying the said limits of £500 and £104 any bonus or addition declared upon assurance of a gross sum or annuity shall be disregarded.

Subject to the said section 440(1) of the Income Tax Act 1952, the Corporation Tax Acts shall apply to the life or endowment business carried on by registered friendly societies in the same way as they apply to mutual life assurance business carried on by assurance companies, so however that the Treasury may by regulations contained in a statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the Commons House of Parliament provide that those Acts as so applied shall have effect subject to such modifications and exceptions as may be prescribed by the regulations, and those regulations may in particular require any part of any business to be treated as a separate business.

If a friendly society registered not later than 3rd May 1966 begins after that date to carry on tax exempt life or endowment business or, in the opinion of the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies, begins to carry on tax exempt life or endowment business on an enlarged scale, or of a new character, and it appears to the Chief Registrar, having regard to the restrictions placed on friendly societies registered after the said date by subsection (1)(b) of this section, that for the protection of the revenue it is expedient to do so, he may serve a notice on the friendly society referring to the provisions of this subsection and stating that he is considering the question whether, for the protection of the revenue, it is expedient to give a direction that, as from such date as may be specified in the notice, being the date when in the opinion of the Chief Registrar the relevant change in the society's activities took place, the society is to be treated as one within subsection (1)(b) of this section, and— In the application of this subsection to Scotland for references to the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies there shall be substituted references to the assistant registrar for Scotland.

Nothing in this section shall affect the exemption conferred by section 440(1) of the Income Tax Act 1952 on unregistered friendly societies.

In this section and Schedule 8 to this Act " life or endowment business " means any business within section 8(1)(b) or (d) or (dd) of the Friendly Societies Act 1896 (life insurance and endowments and insurance of money payable on the duration of a life for a specified period) and any other business within the definition of " life assurance business" in section 33(1) of the Insurance Companies Act 1958 but—

In this section and the said Schedule— and references in this section and the said Schedule to a friendly society include references to any branch of that friendly society.

It is hereby declared that for the purposes of this section and the said Schedule a registered friendly society formed on the amalgamation of two or more friendly societies shall be treated as different from the amalgamated societies: Provided that—

This section has effect for corporation tax for the financial year 1966 and later financial years and for income tax for the year 1966-67 and later years of assessment, but nothing in this section shall withdraw exemption under section 440(1) of the Income Tax Act 1952 for profits arising from any part of a life or endowment business relating to contracts made not later than 3rd May 1966.

In the application of this section and the said Schedule to a friendly society which is for the time being registered or deemed to be registered in Northern Ireland under the enactments relating to friendly societies in Northern Ireland— and nothing in this section or the said Schedule shall restrict the powers of the Parliament of Northern Ireland to make laws with respect to any matter with respect to which that Parliament has power to make laws.

Subject to subsection (2) of this section, section 16 of the Finance Act 1954 and section 21(4)(a) of the Finance Act 1959 (which provide for giving investment allowances in respect of capital expenditure on certain new assets) and section 21(2) and (4)(b) of the said Act of 1959 (by virtue of which initial allowances in respect of such expenditure are reduced) shall not apply to expenditure incurred on or after 17th January 1966.

Without prejudice to subsection (3) of this section, the foregoing subsection shall not affect the application of any of the enactments specified in Part IV of Schedule 13 to this Act to any expenditure in respect of an asset in so far as that expenditure consists (and is stated in the certificate required by subsection (7) of the said section 16 or, as the case may be, by paragraph 1 of Schedule 5 to the said Act of 1959 to consist) of the payment of sums payable under a contract entered into on a date (to be specified in that certificate) not later than 16th January 1966 where that asset is brought into use not later than 16th January 1968.

No investment allowance under the said section 16 or the said section 21(4)(a) and no initial allowance under section 265(1), 279(1) or 306 of the Income Tax Act 1952 or under section 17(1)(a) of the Finance Act 1956 shall be made in respect of so much of any expenditure as is taken into account for the purposes of any relevant grant made towards that expenditure, or be made by virtue of section 332(3) of the said Act of 1952 in respect of a proportionate part of any contribution towards that expenditure; and, if any such grant is made after the making of any such allowance, that allowance shall to that extent be withdrawn. In this subsection, the expression " relevant grant " means a grant towards capital expenditure incurred by a person carrying on a business, being— and in either case being a grant declared by the Treasury by order made by statutory instrument to be relevant for the purposes of the withholding or withdrawal of investment and initial allowances.

Where the amount of any relevant grant within the meaning of subsection (3) of this section towards any expenditure is repaid in whole or in part by the grantee to the grantor, then to the extent to which it has been so repaid it shall be deemed never to have been made.

All such assessments or adjustments of assessments to income tax, corporation tax or profits tax shall be made as may be necessary in consequence of the provisions of subsection (3) or (4) of this section and, notwithstanding anything in any other provision, the time within which such an assessment or adjustment may be made shall not expire before the expiration of three years from the end of the chargeable period in which the grant referred to in the said subsection (3) or, as the case may be, the repayment referred to in the said subsection (4) was made.

This section shall be construed as if it were contained in Part X of the Income Tax Act 1952.