ELIZABETH II
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1968 CHAPTER 2
An Act to consolidate the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1913 and certain other enactments relating to the provisional collection of taxes or matters connected therewith.[1st February 1968]
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:—
Temporary statutory effect of House of Commons resolutions affecting income tax, purchase tax or customs or excise duties. 1.—(1) This section applies only to income tax, purchase tax and duties of customs and excise.
(2) Subject to that, and to the provisions of subsections (4) to (8) below, where the House of Commons passes a resolution which—
- (a) provides for the renewal of a further period of any tax in force or imposed during the previous financial year (whether at the same or a different rate, and whether with or without modifications) or for the variation or abolition of any existing tax, and
- (b) contains a declaration that it is expedient in the public interest that the resolution should have statutory effect under the provisions of this Act,
the resolution shall, for the period specified in the next following subsection, have statutory effect as if contained in an Act of Parliament and, where the resolution provides for the renewal of a tax, all enactments which were in force with reference to that tax as last imposed by Act of Parliament shall during that period have full force and effect with respect to the tax as renewed by the resolution.
