Singapore legislation

Clause 2

of Estate Duty (Amendment) Bill

Clause 2

Amendment of section 6

Subsection (1) of section 6 of the Estate Duty Act (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the principal Act) is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the words “1st day of April 1977” in paragraph (i), the words “and before the 1st day of April 1979”;

(b)

by deleting the full-stop at the end of paragraph (i) and substituting a semi-colon, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following paragraph: —“(j)in the case of any person dying on or after the 1st day of April 1979 — at the graduated rates set forth in the Thirteenth Schedule to this Act.”.