Finance Act 1956
1956 c.54
An Act to grant certain duties, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to the National Debt and the Public Revenue, to authorise advances out of the Consolidated Fund to nationalised industries and undertakings, and to make further provision in connection with Finance.
[2nd August, 1956]
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Part II
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Part III.
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(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
(2) If, in the event of a dissolution of any . . .  registered trade union, any approved annuity as defined in section 620(9) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 ceases to be paid, or any contract for the payment of such an annuity fails in whole or in part, no payment shall be made in respect thereof out of the funds of the . . .  union to the annuitant or other person entitled to the benefit of the contract, but any sum which, but for this provision, would have been paid to him shall be applied in purchasing for the benefit of the annuitant an annuity (for the like term, and subject to the like conditions against surrender, commutation or assignment) from a person lawfully carrying on in the United Kingdom a business of granting annuities on human life.
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Part IV.
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Part V.
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Part VI.
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Part VII Miscellaneous
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 Amendment of National Loans Act, 1939.
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(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
(2) Nothing in any enactment relating to lotteries shall be taken to apply in relation to securities issued under the National Loans Act 1939, by reason of any use or proposed use of chance to select particular securities for special benefits, if the terms of the issue provide that the amount subscribed is to be repayable in full in the case of all the securities.
 Short title, etc.
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(1) This Act may be cited as the Finance Act, 1956.
(2) Part I of this Act, . . . , shall be construed as one with the Customs and Excise Act, 1952, . . . .
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(4) Part II of this Act, in so far as it relates to purchase tax, and Part IV of this Act shall be construed as one with Part III of the Finance Act, 1937, and the other enactments relating to the profits tax.
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(6) Part VI of this Act shall be construed as one with the Stamp Act, 1891.
(7) Any reference in this Act to any other enactment shall,except so far as the context otherwise requires, be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended or applied by or under any other enactment, including this Act.
(8) Subject to the provisions of subsection (5) of section two of this Act, such of the provisions of this Act as relate to matters in respect of which the Parliament of Northern Ireland has power to make laws shall not extend to Northern Ireland.
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FOURTH SCHEDULE

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