Finance Act 2001

Stamp duty reduced for land partly in a disadvantaged area

1 (1) Where any land is situated partly in a disadvantaged area and partly outside such an area, liability to stamp duty under Part 1 or 2, or paragraph 16 of Part 3, of Schedule 13 to the Finance Act 1999 (c. 16) on—

(a) a conveyance or transfer of an estate or interest in the land, or

(b) a lease of the land,

shall be determined in accordance with sub-paragraph (2).

(2) Where liability to stamp duty falls to be determined in accordance with this sub-paragraph—

(a) the consideration in respect of which duty would be chargeable, but for the provisions of this paragraph, shall be apportioned, on such basis as is just and reasonable, as between the part of the land which is situated in a disadvantaged area and the part which is not so situated, and

(b) the instrument shall be chargeable only in respect of the consideration attributed to such part of the land as is not situated in a disadvantaged area.

(3) Where stamp duty, or a greater amount of stamp duty, would be chargeable on an instrument but for sub-paragraphs (1) and (2), those sub-paragraphs shall have effect in relation to the instrument only if the instrument is certified to the Commissioners as being an instrument in relation to which those sub-paragraphs have effect.

(4) No instrument which is certified as mentioned in sub-paragraph (3) shall be taken to be duly stamped unless—

(a) it is stamped in accordance with section 12 of the Stamp Act 1891 (c. 39) with a particular stamp denoting that it is not chargeable with any duty or that it is duly stamped, or

(b) it is stamped with the duty to which it would have been liable but for this paragraph.