Finance Act, 1894

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Settled property.

5. —(1) Where property in respect of which Estate duty is leviable, is settled by the will of the deceased, or having been settled by some other disposition passes under that disposition on the death of the deceased to some person not competent to dispose of the property,—

(a) a further Estate duty (called settlement Estate duty) on the principal value of the settled property shall be levied at the rate herein-after specified, except where the only life interest in the property after the death of the deceased is that of a wife or husband of the deceased; but

(b) during the continuance of the settlement the settlement Estate duty shall not be payable more than once.

(2) If Estate duty has already been paid in respect of any settled property since the date of the settlement, the Estate duty shall not, nor shall any of the duties mentioned in the fifth paragraph of the First Schedule to this Act, be payable in respect thereof, until the death of a person who was at the time of his death or had been at any time during the continuance of the settlement competent to dispose of such property, [¹ and who if on his death subsequent limitations under the settlement take effect in respect of such property was sui juris at the time of his death or had been sui juris at any time while so competent to dispose of the property].

(3) In the case of settled property, where the interest of any person under the settlement fails or determines by reason of his death before it becomes an interest in possession, and subsequent limitations under the settlement continue to subsist, the property shall not be deemed to pass on his death.

(4) Any person paying the settlement Estate duty payable under this section upon property comprised in a settlement, may deduct the amount of the ad valorem stamp duty (if any) charged on the settlement in respect of that property.

(5) Where any lands or chattels are so settled, whether by Act of Parliament or royal grant, that no one of the persons sucessively in possession thereof is capable of alienating the same, whether his interest is in law a tenancy for life or a tenancy in tail, the provisions of this Act with respect to settled property shall not apply, and the property passing on the death of any person in possession of the lands and chattels shall be the interest of his successor in the lands and chattels, and such interest shall be valued, for the purpose of Estate duty, in like manner as for the purpose of Succession duty.

Collection and Recovery of Duty and Value of Property.

[¹ Added by 61 & 62 Vict. c. 10, s. 13.]