HC Deb 06 April 1949 vol 463 c2106

Resolved: That, as respects payments for admission to entertainments held on or after the first day of May, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, the exemption from entertainments duty conferred by section seventeen of the Finance Act, 1948, shall he extended by the substitution in subsection (1) of that section for the words 'a population not exceeding sixty-four to the square mile' of the words 'a population not exceeding six hundred and forty to the square mile.' And it is hereby declared that it is expedient in the public interest that this Resolution should have statutory effect under the provisions of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act, 1913.