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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/44/section/61</dc:identifier><dc:title>Finance Act 1968</dc:title><dc:description>An Act to grant certain duties, to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to the National Debt and the Public Revenue, and to make further provision in connection with Finance.</dc:description><dc:date>1979-06-30</dc:date><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2024-05-17</dc:modified><dc:contributor>Expert Participation</dc:contributor><dct:valid>2010-11-02</dct:valid>
					
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				</ukm:Metadata><Primary><Body DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/44/body" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/44/body" NumberOfProvisions="40" RestrictStartDate="2008-07-21"><Part DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/44/part/VI" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/44/part/VI" NumberOfProvisions="9" RestrictStartDate="2008-07-21" id="part-VI"><Number>Part VI</Number><Title> Miscellaneous</Title><P1group RestrictStartDate="2008-07-21" RestrictExtent="E+W+S+N.I."><Title> Citation, interpretation, construction, extent and repeals.</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/44/section/61" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/44/section/61" id="section-61"><Pnumber>61</Pnumber><P1para><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/44/section/61/1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/44/section/61/1" id="section-61-1"><Pnumber>1</Pnumber><P2para><Text>This Act may be cited as the Finance Act 1968.</Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/44/section/61/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/44/section/61/2" id="section-61-2"><Pnumber><CommentaryRef Ref="c745920"/>2</Pnumber><P2para><Text>In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires, “<Term id="term-the-board">the Board</Term>” means the Commissioners of Inland Revenue.</Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/44/section/61/3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/44/section/61/3" id="section-61-3"><Pnumber>3</Pnumber><P2para><Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <CommentaryRef Ref="c745921"/></Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/44/section/61/4" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/44/section/61/4" id="section-61-4"><Pnumber>4</Pnumber><P2para><Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <CommentaryRef Ref="c745922"/></Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/44/section/61/5" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/44/section/61/5" id="section-61-5"><Pnumber>5</Pnumber><P2para><Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <CommentaryRef Ref="c745923"/></Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/44/section/61/6" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/44/section/61/6" id="section-61-6"><Pnumber>6</Pnumber><P2para><Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <CommentaryRef Ref="c745924"/></Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/44/section/61/7" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/44/section/61/7" id="section-61-7"><Pnumber><CommentaryRef Ref="key-a0536322cb68080dec980b4e77a9606f"/><CommentaryRef Ref="c745920"/>7</Pnumber><P2para><Text>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/44/section/61/8" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/44/section/61/8" id="section-61-8"><Pnumber>8</Pnumber><P2para><Text>Any reference in this Act to any other enactment shall, except so far as the context otherwise requires, be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended or applied by or under any other enactment, including this Act.</Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/44/section/61/9" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1968/44/section/61/9" id="section-61-9"><Pnumber>9</Pnumber><P2para><Text>Except as otherwise expressly provided, such of the provisions of this Act as relate to matters in respect of which the Parliament of Northern Ireland has power to make laws shall not extend to Northern Ireland.</Text></P2para></P2></P1para></P1></P1group></Part></Body></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary 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