Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1885

Interpretation of terms.

12. In the construction and for the purposes of this part of this Act—

The term “body unincorporate” includes every unincorporated company, fellowship, society, association, and trustee, or number of trustees, to or in whom respectively any real or personal property shall belong in such manner, or be vested upon such permanent trusts, that the same shall not be liable to legacy duty or succession duty.

The term “accountable officer” means every chamberlain, treasurer, bursar, receiver, secretary, or other officer, trustee, or member of a body corporate or unincorporate by whom the annual income or profits of property in respect whereof duty is chargeable under this Act shall be received, or in whose possession, or under whose control, the same shall be.