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title: "Finance Act 1937"
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# Finance Act 1937

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

Finance Act 1937
1937 c.54
An Act to grant certain duties of Customs and Inland Revenue (including Excise), to alter other duties, and to amend the law relating to Customs and Inland Revenue (including Excise) and the National Debt, and to make further provision in connection with finance.
[30th July 1937]

## 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-12.}



## 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-34.}



## 5 Repeal of male servant duty, and effect thereof on game licence duty. {#section-5}

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## 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-6}



## 7–9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-79}



## 10– 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-1018}



## 19–25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-1925}



## 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-2627.}



## 28 Advertisement of applications for unclaimed stock, dividends and other moneys. {#section-28}

(1) Where an application is made for a direction under section fifty-five of the National Debt Act, 1870 (which, as extended by paragraph 6 of the Third Schedule to the Finance Act, 1921, relates to unclaimed stock, dividends and principal moneys payable on redemption) either—
(a) for the re-transfer of any stock the nominal value whereof exceeds twenty pounds; or
(b) for the payment of any dividends or other moneys amounting in all to more than twenty pounds;
the direction may, if the Registrar of Government Stock thinks fit, be witheld until three months after public notice of the application has been given by advertisement in such manner and containing such particulars as he may direct.
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(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

## 29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-29}



## 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-30}



## 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-31}



## 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-32}



## 33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-33}



## 34 Short title, construction, extent and repeals. {#section-34}

(1) This Act may be cited as the Finance Act, 1937.
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(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4) Any reference in this Act to any other enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended by any subsequent enactment, including (unless the context otherwise requires) this Act.
(5) Such of the provisions of this Act as relate to matters with respect to which the Parliament of Northern Ireland has power to make laws shall not extend to Northern Ireland.
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## FIRST SCHEDULE . . . {#schedule-FIRST}



## THIRD SCHEDULE . . . {#schedule-THIRD}



## FOURTH AND FIFTH SCHEDULES . . . {#schedule-4}



## SIXTH SCHEDULE . . . {#schedule-SIXTH}