Finance Act 1958

33Relief in cases of demolition or clearance orders

(1)In the case of deaths occurring after the commencement of this Act, section thirty-three of the Finance Act, 1956 (which reduces the estate duty chargeable on land compulsorily purchased within five years after the date as at which it is valued for the purposes of duty), shall apply in relation to an interest in a house which is demolished in pursuance of a demolition order under Part II of the Housing Act, 1957, or a clearance order under Part III of that Act, as if—

(a)the house had been purchased at site value in pursuance of a compulsory purchase order made by virtue of the said Part II or the said Part III, and compensation in respect of the interest had been payable accordingly; and

(b)the purchase had been made in pursuance of a notice to treat served on the date on which the clearance order or demolition order was made.

(2)Subsection (1) of this section shall apply where a house which might have been the subject of a demolition order is, without the making of such an order, vacated and demolished in pursuance of an undertaking given to the local authority, as if there had been a demolition order made at the date when the undertaking is given.

(3)In this section—

• " house " includes any building constructed or adapted wholly or partly as, or for the purposes of, a dwelling;

• " site value " in relation to a house means the value, at the time the valuation is made, of the site as a cleared site available for development in accordance with the requirements of the building bye-laws for the time being in force in the district.

(4)This section shall have effect in relation to a house in Scotland as if for the references to the Housing Act, 1957, there were substituted references to the Housing (Scotland) Act, 1950, and for the reference to the building bye-laws there were substituted a reference to the building regulations.