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AI Summary of 33. Release of limited interests, etc.

Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 21 February 2003 - onwards

33. Release of limited interests, etc.

(1) In this section, "event" includes - (a) a death, and (b) the expiration of a specified period.

(2) Where an interest in property, which is limited by the disposition creating it to cease on an event, has come to an end (whether by another disposition, the taking of successive interests into one ownership, or by any means whatever other than the happening of another event on which the interest was limited by the first-mentioned disposition to cease) before the happening of such event, tax is payable under the first-mentioned disposition in all respects as if the event on which the interest was limited to cease under that disposition had happened immediately before the coming to an end of the interest.

(3) Subsection (2) shall not prejudice any charge for tax in respect of any gift or inheritance affecting the same property or any part of it under any disposition other than that first mentioned in subsection (2).