Finance Act, 1919

Decrease of rate of excess mineral rights duty.

33.—(1) Section forty-three of the principal Act (which relates to excess mineral rights duty) shall have effect as if forty per cent. of the excess were substituted as the rate of duty for eighty per cent. for any accounting year commencing on or after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and nineteen, or, in the case of an accounting year which commenced before that date but ends after that date, as if forty per cent. were substituted for eighty per cent. as respects so much of the excess as may be apportioned under this Part of this Act to the part commencing on that date.

(2) The proviso to section twenty-one of the Finance Act, 1917, shall apply to any accounting year in respect of which or any part of which excess mineral rights duty is payable at the rate of forty per cent., as it applies where the said duty is payable at the rate of eighty per cent.