Finance Act, 1916

Increase of rate of excess mineral rights duty.

46.(1) Section forty-three of the principal Act (which relates to excess mineral rights duty) shall have effect as if sixty per cent. of the excess were substituted as the rate of duty for fifty per cent. of the excess, in the case of minerals which have become subject to a mining lease after the fourth day of August nineteen hundred and fourteen for all accounting years, and in the case of other minerals for any accounting year ending after the completion of the first accounting year, and any additional duty may be recovered accordingly.

(2) It is hereby declared that the words in subsection (1) of section forty-three of the principal Act “assets of any trade or business” refer only to assets of the trade or business of the person receiving the rent for the right to work the minerals or for the mineral wayleaves.