Finance (No. 2) Act 1945

54 Agreements for relief from double estate duty.

(1) If His Majesty by Order in Council declares that arrangements specified in the Order have been made with the Government of any territory outside the United Kingdom with a view to affording relief from double taxation in relation to estate duty payable under the laws of the United Kingdom and any duty of a similar character imposed under the laws of that territory, and that it is expedient that those arrangements should have effect, the arrangements shall, notwithstanding anything in any enactment, have effect so far as they provide for relief from estate duty, or for determining the-place where any property is to be treated as being situated for the purposes of estate duty.

(2) Where arrangements have effect by virtue of this section—

(a) subsection (4) of section seven of the [57 & 58 Vict. c. 30.] Finance Act, 1894 (which provides for relief in respect of duty payable in a foreign country) shall not have effect in relation to duty to which the arrangements apply chargeable under the laws of the territory concerned; and

(b) if the territory concerned is one to which section twenty of the Finance Act, 1894, applies, no allowance shall be made under that section in respect of duty to which the arrangements apply chargeable under the laws of that territory.

(3) Any arrangements to which effect is given under this section may include provision for relief from duty in the case of deaths occurring before the passing of this Act or before the making of the arrangements and provisions as to property which is not itself subject to double duty, and the provisions of this section shall have effect accordingly.

(4) Notwithstanding anything in the [10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 67.] Government of Ireland Act, 1920, the Parliament of Northern Ireland shall, as respects estate duty payable under the laws of Northern Ireland, have power to make laws for purposes similar to the purposes of this section.