Finance Act, 1991

Amendment of section 57 (exemption of certain securities) of Capital Acquisitions Tax Act, 1976.

121.—(1) Section 57 of the Principal Act is hereby amended—

(a) in subsection (1) by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of unit trust scheme:

“‘unit trust scheme’ means an authorised unit trust scheme within the meaning of the Unit Trusts Act, 1990 , whose deed expressing the trusts of the scheme restricts the property subject to those trusts to securities.”,

and

(b) in subsection (2) (as amended by section 40 of the Finance Act, 1978 ) by the substitution for “Unit Trusts Act, 1972” of “ Unit Trusts Act, 1990 ”.

(2) This section shall have effect in relation to gifts and inheritances taken on or after the 26th day of December, 1990.