(1)There shall be exempt from tax chargeable under Case VII any gain accruing to a charity, or to any such Association as is mentioned in section four hundred and forty-nine of the Income Tax Act, 1952, from its acquisition and disposal of any assets.
In this subsection " charity " means any body of persons or trust established for charitable purposes only.
(2)There shall be exempt from tax chargeable under Case VII any gain accruing to a person from his acquisition and disposal of investments or deposits held by him as part of a fund approved under section three hundred and seventy-nine of the Income Tax Act, 1952, but so that where part only of a fund is approved under that section the gain shall be exempt to the same extent only as income derived from the assets would be exempt under that section.
(3)There shall be exempt from tax chargeable under Case VII any gain accruing to a person from his acquisition and disposal of assets held by him as part of a fund of which income is exempt from tax under any of the following enactments (which relate to superannuation and similar funds), that is to say.—
(a)in the Income Tax Act, 1952, sections three hundred and eighty-one, three hundred and eighty-two and three hundred and eighty-five;
(b)in the Finance Act, 1956, subsection (5) of section twenty-two and subsection (3) of section forty;
(c)in the Finance Act, 1961, section twenty-one.
(4)There shall be exempt from tax chargeable under Case VII any gain accruing to the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority from its acquisition and disposal of any assets, or accruing to any other person from his acquisition and disposal of investments or deposits held by him for the purposes of any pension scheme provided and maintained by that Authority.
(5)There shall be exempt from tax chargeable under Case VII any gains which accrue to an assurance company (within the meaning of Part XX of the Income Tax Act, 1952) from its acquisition and disposal of investments of its life assurance fund, but which by reason of the mutual nature of the company's business or part of it do not accrue as profits of a trade.
(6)Any gain accruing to a person from his acquisition and disposal of any assets as trustee or assignee in bankruptcy shall be exempt from tax chargeable under Case VII.
(7)Where assets of the British Transport Commission are, by virtue of or in accordance with any Act of the present Session providing for the dissolution of that Commission, transferred to any body corporate established by that Act, then—
(a)the Commission shall not be chargeable to tax under Case VII by reference to the transfer in respect of its acquisition and disposal of any asset included in the transfer; and
(b)the body corporate shall be treated as if the Commission's acquisition of the asset had been its acquisition of it (paragraph 18 of the Ninth Schedule to this Act applying for the purposes of this paragraph as it applies for the purposes of that Schedule).