PART IPurchase Tax
1Rates of tax, and descriptions of chargeable goods
(1)Subject to any order of the Treasury made after the passing of this Act under section twenty-one of the Finance Act, 1948, there shall be made the changes in purchase tax provided for by the First Schedule to this Act.
(2)Accordingly Part I of the Second Schedule to this Act (which reproduces with the said changes the effect of Part I of the Eighth Schedule to the Finance Act, 1948, as set out in the Purchase Tax (Consolidation) Order, 1956, and subsequently amended) shall have effect for determining what goods are chargeable goods for the purposes of purchase tax and the rates of purchase tax chargeable in respect of goods of any class; and Part II of the said Second Schedule shall have effect for the purpose of adapting references to Part I of the Eighth Schedule to the said Act of 1948.
(3)Subsection (1) of this section and the First Schedule to this Act shall be deemed to have had effect from the sixteenth day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, save as otherwise provided in that Schedule, but subsection (2) and the Second Schedule shall not have effect until the beginning of October, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight (except as respects the making of orders by the Treasury).
2Meaning of " business "
(1)For the purposes of the enactments relating to purchase tax, and in particular of section eighteen of the Finance Act, 1946 (which, among other things, requires the registration of a person applying a chargeable process in the course of or for the purposes of his business), the performance by a local authority of the functions of the authority and the carrying out by any other body of persons, whether incorporated or not, of the objects of that body shall be deemed to constitute a business of the authority or body.
(2)This section shall be deemed to have had effect from the sixteenth day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight.