Estate Duty (Remission for Deaths in Quick Succession) Order 2005

any property or interest therein had passed on the death of the earlier deceased to the later deceased;

such property or interest, including any property shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioner to be property wholly converted from the first-mentioned property or interest, passes on the death of the later deceased (referred to in this Order as the transferred property);

estate duty is assessed to be payable on the transferred property or part thereof both on the earlier death and the later death; and

the estate duty on the transferred property or part thereof on the earlier death has not been fully deducted under section 28(1) of the Act or fully remitted under section 49 of the Act,there shall be allowed, from the estate duty payable on the estate of the later deceased, a remission of estate duty of the amount determined in accordance with the formula —where Ais the assessed value of that part of the transferred property on which estate duty has been paid on the earlier death or the assessed value of the same part of the transferred property on which estate duty is payable on the later death, whichever is the lower;Bis the assessed value of the estate of the later deceased;Cis the amount of the estate duty payable on the estate of the later deceased; andPis the percentage of remission at the applicable rate set out in the Schedule.

any gift inter vivos under section 7(1)(c) of the Act either by the earlier deceased or the later deceased; or

any interest in expectancy in the estate of the later deceased which falls into possession more than 24 months after the date of the earlier death, where an option under section 25(1) of the Act was made to pay the estate duty in respect of that interest when the interest falls into possession.