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16.--(1) The Schedules to the principal Ordinance are Repeal of repealed, and the Schedule to this Ordinance is substituted Ordinanco

No. 16 of therefor: Provided that where an interest in expectancy 1915, in any property has, before the commencement of this Schedules Ordinance, been bonâ fide sold or mortgaged for full con- and substitu- sideration in money or money's worth, then no other duty tion of new

Schedule. on that property shall be payable by the purchaser or mortgagee when the interest falls into possession than 9 & 10 would have been payable if this section of this Ordinance Geo. 5, has not been passed, and in the case of a mortgage any c. 32, s. 29. higher duty payable by the mortgagor shall rank as a charge subsequent to that of the mortgagee.

(2) Section 4 of the principal Ordinance is amended Amendment by the deletion of the word "second" before the word of Ordinance

No. 16 of Schedule" in the sixth line thereof.

1915, s. 4.

SCHEDULE.

[ss. 4, 10, 12, 13, 18, 19 and 22,]

Where the principal value of the estate

Estate Duty shall be payable at

the rate per

cent of.

Exceeds

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500

5,000

{ and does not

exceed

5,000

--

10.000

10,000

25.000

"

་་

25.000

};

50,000

15

50,000

100,000

"

100,000

,;

200,000

*

200,000

!ཝཱ

400,000

S

400,000

600,000

600,000

ནཱནཾ

800,000

800,000

1,000,000

10

99

1,000,000 2,000,000

2,000,000.

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Objects and Reasons.

1. The object of this Ordinance is to amend the Estate Duty Ordinance, Ordinance No. 16 of 1915, in various ways suggested by the practical working of the Ordinance, Some of the amendments now proposed are intended to bring the Ordinance into closer agreement with the Finance Act, 1894, 57 & 58 Vict. c. 30,

Others are designed to prevent evasion of estate duty,

into

2. When the principal Ordinance, which came force on the 1st January, 1916, was enacted it contained a provision that in the case of persons dying before the commencement of the Ordinance the probate duty formerly payable under the Stamp Ordinance, 1901, should continue to be payable instead of the new estate duty. When the Stamp Ordinance, 1901, was replaced by the Stamp Ordi- nance, 1921, the above temporary and limited provision was still further limited by a provision that estate duty and not probate duty should be payable in the case of any estate to which representation was applied for after the

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