SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5Transfer schemes: further provision

Stamp duty

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1

Stamp duty shall not be chargeable on—

a

a transfer scheme, or

b

an instrument or agreement which is certified to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue by the Secretary of State as made in pursuance of a transfer 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 Stamp Act 1891 (c. 39), been stamped 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 be liable, apart from this paragraph.

3

Section 12 of the Finance Act 1895 (c. 16) 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.