Finance Act, 1963

Proceedings against executor or administrator.

77.—(1) Where the person who has incurred any penalty has died after the passing of this Act, any proceedings under this Act which have been or could have been commenced against him may be continued or commenced against his executor or administrator, as the case may be, and any penalty awarded in proceedings so continued or commenced shall be a debt due from and payable out of his estate.

(2) Subsection (1) of section 10 of the Finance Act, 1925 , shall, in relation to proceedings commenced by virtue of subsection (1) of this section, have effect as if “not later than three years after the expiration of the year of assessment in which the deceased person died in a case in which the grant of probate or letters of administration was made in that year and at any time not later than two years after the expiration of the year of assessment in which such grant was made in any other case, but the foregoing provisions of this subsection shall have effect subject to the proviso that where the executor or administrator lodges a corrective affidavit for the purpose of assessment of estate duty after the year of assessment in which the deceased person died, the proceedings may be begun at any time before the expiration of two years next after the end of the year of assessment in which the corrective affidavit was lodged” were substituted for “within six years next after the date on which such fine or penalty was incurred”.