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Finance Act 1950

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15Reduction of entertainments duty in certain cases

(1)Where an entertainment held after the fifth day of August, nineteen hundred and fifty, would apart from this section be chargeable with entertainments duty at the full rates, but the Commissioners on an application made in such manner as they may direct are satisfied that the entertainment is one to which this section applies, then the entertainments duty chargeable in the case of any payment for admission to the entertainment shall be two-thirds of the duty chargeable in the case of a payment of the same gross amount at the full rate plus one-third of the duty so chargeable at the reduced rate.

(2)This section applies to any entertainment in the case of which not less than one quarter of the total time taken by the entertainment is taken solely by items such that, had the entertainment consisted only of those items, it would have been chargeable at the reduced rates and that such other conditions (if any) as may be prescribed are satisfied, and which apart from those items consists wholly or mainly of the exhibition of a cinematograph film.

(3)In this section the following expressions have the following meanings respectively:—

(a)" full rate " means the rate of entertainments duty according to the scale applicable in cases falling neither within this section nor within subsection (3) of section one of the Finance Act, 1935 (which relates to stage plays etc.) and " reduced rate " means the late according to the scale applicable in cases which fall within the said subsection (3);

(b)" gross amount " means amount inclusive of entertainments duty;

(c)" prescribed " means prescribed by regulations made by the Commissioners by statutory instrument.

(4)Where entertainments duty has been charged on any payment made before the passing of this Act, and by virtue of this section the duty should have been charged at a lower rate than that at which it was in fact charged, the person by whom the duty was paid shall be entitled to repayment of the amount of the overcharge.

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