# Finance (No. 2) Act 1983 1983 c. 49 · enacted 26 July 1983 · revised to 6 March 1992 An Act to grant certain duties, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to the National Debt and the Public Revenue, and to make further provision in connection with Finance. ## Introductory text An Act to grant certain duties, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to the National Debt and the Public Revenue, and to make further provision in connection with Finance. [26 July 1983] Most Gracious Sovereign,We, Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary supplies to defray Your Majesty’s public expenses, and making an addition to the public revenue, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the several duties hereinafter mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— ## Part I: Income Tax, Corporation Tax and Capital Gains Tax ## 1—5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## 8—13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## Part III: Miscellaneous and Supplementary ## 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## Schedule 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## Schedule 2: Repeals ## I Income Tax, Corporation Tax and Capital Gains Tax Chapter Short title Extent of repeal 1983 c. 28. The Finance Act 1983. In section 10, in subsection (1), the words following “ 30 per cent.” and subsections (2) and (3). Section 16. In Schedule 5, in paragraph 17(1), paragraph (c) and the word “ and” immediately preceding it and, in paragraph 18(1), the words “ within the next four months”. ## II Capital Transfer Tax Chapter Short Title Extent of Repeal 1925 c. 23. The Administration of Estates Act 1925. In the First Schedule, paragraph 8(b). 1955 c. 24 (N.I.). The Administration of Estates Act (Northern Ireland) 1955. In the First Schedule, paragraph 8(b). 1975 c. 7. The Finance Act 1975. In section 26(3), the words “ 10(1)(b) or”, “ given to a charity or property” and “ charity or, as the case may be, the”. In section 45, in subsection (1), paragraph (c) and the word “ or” immediately preceding it, and subsections (2A) and (3). In Schedule 4, in paragraphs 12(3) and 19(2), the words “ a charity or only” . In Schedule 6, in paragraph 10(1), paragraph (b) and the word “ and” immediately preceding it. 1976 c. 40. The Finance Act 1976. In Schedule 10, paragraph 2(1A)(b). 1977 c. 36. The Finance Act 1977. Section 49. 1982 c. 39. The Finance Act 1982. Section 92(2) ## 1 The repeals in the Administration of Estates Act 1925 and the Administration of Estates Act (Northern Ireland) 1955 have effect in relation to deaths on or after the day on which this Act is passed. ## 2 The repeals of — (a) subsections (1)(c), (2A) and (3) of section 45 of the Finance Act 1975, (b) paragraph 2(1A)(b) of Schedule 10 to the Finance Act 1976, and (c) section 49 of the Finance Act 1977, have effect in relation to transfers of value made, and other events occurring, on or after 15th March 1983. ## 3 The remaining repeals have effect in relation to transfers of value made on or after 15th March 1983. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/49 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/finance-no-2-act-1983 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.