Finance Act, 1916

Amendment of section 40 (3) of the principal Act.

55. Subsection (3) of section forty of the principal Act (which provides amongst other things for the reference of certain matters for the decision of a board of referees) shall, where the application for such a reference is made in respect of a trade or business carried on a controlled establishment within the meaning of Part II. of the Munitions of War Act, 1915, and relates to an accounting period during any part of which th establishment has been so controlled, and to the postponement or suspension of renewals or repairs, or to exceptional depreciation or obsolescence of assets, or to the necessity in connexion with the present war of providing plant, have effect as though a referee or board of referees appointed or designated by the Minister of Munitions for the purpose were substituted for the board of referees under the principal Act.