Paragraph 3

The following sub-paragraph shall be substituted for sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph 7 of the Sixth Schedule to the Finance Act, 1940—

“(b)

in applying the provisions of paragraphs 1 to 3 of this Schedule to the case of an assessment to the national defence contribution for a period part of which falls before, and part of which falls after, the end of the year nineteen hundred and forty-six, there shall be deemed to be added to the amount of excess profits tax which would have been assessable or payable, as the case may be, for the part of the period before the end of that year an amount equal to so much of the national defence contribution for the whole period as is apportionable to the part thereof falling after the end of that year.”