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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 13Stamp duty: instruments chargeable and rates of duty

Part IIIOther instruments

Instrument increasing rent

20(1)An instrument (not itself a lease)—

(a)by which it is agreed that the rent reserved by a lease should be increased, or

(b)which confirms or records any such agreement made otherwise than in writing,

is chargeable with the same duty as if it were a lease in consideration of the additional rent made payable by it.

(2)Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to an instrument giving effect to provision in the lease for periodic review of the rent reserved by it.