Finance Act 2005

Treatment of certain dividends.

46.—(1) The Principal Act is amended—

(a) in section 17 by inserting the following after subsection (2):

“(3) Subsection (1) shall not apply to a banker by virtue only of the clearing of a cheque, or the arranging for the clearing of a cheque, by the banker.”,

and

(b) in section 62—

(i) by renumbering the existing provision as subsection (1) of that section, and

(ii) by inserting the following after subsection (1):

“(2) This section does not apply to a banker by virtue only of the clearing of a cheque, or the arranging for the clearing of a cheque, by the banker.”.

(2) This section applies as respects any payment on or after the date of the passing of this Act.