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Finance Act 1908

1908 CHAPTER 16 8 Edw 7

[F1An Act to grant certain duties of Customs and Inland Revenue, to alter other duties, and to amend the Law relating to Customs and Inland Revenue and the National Debt, and to make other provisions for the financial arrangements of the year.]

[1st August 1908]

Textual Amendments

F1Act repealed (E.W.) (1.8.2007) by Regulatory Reform (Game) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2007), Sch. para. 1(f)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Act: Functions transferred (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1

C2Functions of Local Government Board now exercisable by Secretary of State: Minister of Health Act 1919 (c. 21), s. 3(1)(a), S.I. 1951/753, 1900 (1951 I, PP. 1354, 1347), S.I. 1965/319 and 1970/1681 1347),

C3Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1927 (c. 42)

Commencement Information

I1Act partly in force at Royal Assent, partly retrospective; all provisions so far as unrepealed wholly in force at 1.2.1991.

Part IU.K.

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Textual Amendments

F2Ss. 1, 2, 5, 7 and Sch. repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1927 (c. 42)

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Textual Amendments

F3S. 3 repealed by Customs and Excise Act 1952 (c. 44), Sch. 12 Pt. I

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Textual Amendments

F4S. 4 repealed by Finance Act 1960 (c. 44), Sch. 8 Pt. III

Part IIU.K.

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Textual Amendments

F5Ss. 1, 2, 5, 7 and Sch. repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1927 (c. 42)

Part IIIU.K. Local Taxation Licences

6†Collection of duties on certain local taxation licences by county councils.U.K.

(1)The power to levy the duties on local taxation licences to which this section applies shall, [F6in England F7. . . be vested in the councils of districts][F8and in Wales be vested in the councils of counties and county boroughs].

(2)His Majesty may, by Order in Council, . . . F9 make provision for the furnishing by [F10F11. . . councils] of returns to the Local Government Board as to the amounts levied under the power transferred by this section.

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Subsections (3) (4) and (5) of section twenty of the M1Local Government Act, 1888, and any other provisions of that Act relating to the levy of the duties on local taxation licences by county councils shall, as respects the duties to which this section applies, have effect as if the power to levy those duties had been transferred under subsection (3) of section twenty of that Act [F12and as if any reference in those provisions to a county council were a reference to a council having power to levy those duties after 1st April 1974][F13or, in relation to Wales, to a council having power to levy those duties after 1st April 1996]

(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F14

(4)The duties on local taxation licences to which this section applies are the duties on licences to deal in game, licences for . . . F15 killing game, . . . F16:

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[F18(5)In relation to Greater London, references in this section to a district council shall be construed as references to the council of a London borough or the Common Council of the City of London].

Textual Amendments

F6Words substituted by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 213(2)(a)

F7Words in s. 6(1) repealed (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 66(6)(8), Sch. 16 para. 4(a), Sch. 18; S.I. 1996/396, art. 4, Sch. 2

F8Words in s. 6(1) added (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 66(6), Sch. 16, para. 4(a); S.I. 1996/396, art. 4, Sch. 2

F9Words repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 213(2)(b), Sch. 30

F10Words substituted by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 213(2)(b)

F11Word in s. 6(2) repealed (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 66(6)(8), Sch. 16 para. 4(b), Sch. 18; S.I. 1996/396, art. 4 Sch. 2

F12Words added by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 213(2)(b)

F13Words in s. 6(2) added (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 66(6), Sch. 16 para. 4(b); S.I. 1996/396, art. 4 Sch. 2

F14S. 6(3) repealed by Local Government Act 1929 (c. 17), Sch. 12 Pt. VI

F15Word repealed by Dog Licences Act 1959 (c. 55), Sch.

F16Words repealed by Local Government Act 1966 (c. 42), Sch. 6 Pt. I, Finance Act 1944 (c. 23), Sch. 5 Pt. II and Finance Act 1937 (c. 54), s. 5(1), Sch. 6 Pt. III