Finance (1909-10) Act 1910

38 Special provision for statutory companies.

(1) Neither increment value duty, reversion duty, nor undeveloped land duty shall be charged in respect of any land whilst it is held by a statutory company for the purposes of their undertaking and cannot be appropriated by the company except to those purposes ; but nothing in this provision shall prevent the collection of increment value duty when any such land is sold or ceases to be so held.

This provision shall not be construed so as to exclude from the benefit thereof land held by a statutory company which is intended to be ultimately appropriated for the purpose of works forming or to form part of the company's undertaking, but, pending the carrying out of those works, is used for other purposes.

(2) The Commissioners shall not require a statutory company to make any returns with respect to any such land for the purpose of the provisions of this Part of this Act as to valuation other than as to the actual cost to the company of the land, and that cost shall, for the purposes of this Part of this Act, be substituted for the original site value of the land.

(3) For the purposes of the Lands Clauses Acts, as incorporated with any special Act, the amount (if any) payable by the transferor as increment value duty shall not be treated as part of the costs or expenses of a conveyance of land, and shall not be taken into account in assessing the compensation to be paid to the transferor.

(4) For the purposes of this section the expression " statutory company " means any railway company, canal company, dock company, water company, or other company who are for the time being authorised under any special Act to construct, work, or carry on any railway, canal, dock, water, or other public under taking, and includes any person or body of persons so authorised ; and the expression " special Act " includes any Provisional Order or order having the force of an Act of Parliament.