SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 14 Transitional provisions and savings

Part V Magistrates and magistrates’ courts

Stamp duty on transfer schemes

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1

Stamp duty shall not be chargeable—

a

on any scheme under paragraph 33, or

b

on any instrument or agreement which is certified to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue by the Lord Chancellor as made in pursuance of such a scheme.

2

No such scheme, and no instrument or agreement which is certified as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(b), shall be taken to be duly stamped unless—

a

it has, in accordance with section 12 of the M1Stamp Act 1891, been stamped with a particular stamp denoting that it is not chargeable with that duty or that it is duly stamped, or

b

it is stamped with the duty to which it would be liable, apart from this paragraph.

3

Section 12 of the M2Finance Act 1895 shall not operate to require—

a

the delivery to the Inland Revenue of a copy of this Act, or

b

the payment of stamp duty under that section on any copy of this Act,

and shall not apply in relation to any instrument on which, by virtue of sub-paragraph (1), stamp duty is not chargeable.