Part 2.Stamp Duty
16.Paragraph 5 exempts from stamp duty transfers of stock or marketable securities admitted to trading on a recognised growth market but not listed on any market.
17.Paragraph 6 exempts from stamp duty a purchase of its own shares by a company where the shares are admitted to trading on a recognised growth market but not listed on any market.
18.Paragraph 7 provides that an Act of Parliament that vests stock or marketable securities does not attract stamp duty where the stock or securities are admitted to trading on a recognised growth market but not listed on any market.
19.Paragraph 8 provides that ‘listed’ and ‘recognised growth market’ in Paragraphs 5 – 7 are to be construed as set out in new section s99A.
20.Paragraphs 9 – 10 remove a stamp duty charge from instruments that transfer, to a depositary receipt regime or clearance service, stock or marketable securities admitted to trading on a recognised growth market but not listed on any market.
21.Paragraph 11 amends the rules for transfers of partnership interests in Schedule 15 to Finance Act 2003 to ensure that stamp duty is not chargeable to the extent that the partnership property includes stock or marketable securities admitted to trading on a recognised growth market but not listed on any market.
22.Paragraph 12 brings into force the stamp duty provisions in Paragraphs 5 – 11 with effect from 28 April 2014 but ensures that a transfer executed after 28 April 2014, but pursuant to an agreement made before that date, will not be exempt.