Museums and Galleries Act 1992
21. After section 8 of the Museums and Galleries Act 1992(1) insert—
“Stamp duty land tax
8A.—(1) This section applies to a land transaction by which land occupied wholly or partly for the purposes of an institution specified in column 1 of Schedule 6 to this Act is transferred by the Secretary of State to the body specified in relation to that institution in column 2 of that Schedule.
(2) For the purposes of stamp duty land tax, the land transaction is exempt from charge.
(3) Relief under this section must be claimed in a land transaction return or an amendment of such a return.
(4) In this section——
“land transaction” has the meaning given by section 43(1) of the Finance Act 2003;
“land transaction return” has the meaning given by section 76(1) of that Act.”.