F1 SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 11 TAXATION PROVISIONS

Stamp Duty

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1

No transfer effected by this Act shall give rise to any liability to stamp duty.

2

Stamp duty shall not be chargeable on a transfer scheme or, subject to sub-paragraph (3) below, on any instrument which is certified to the Board by the Secretary of State as having been made in pursuance of such a scheme.

3

No instrument which is certified as mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) above shall be taken as duly stamped unless—

a

it is stamped with the duty to which it would but for that sub-paragraph be liable; or

b

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.

4

Stamp duty shall not be chargeable on any instrument which is made in pursuance of Schedule 10 to this Act.

5

Stamp duty shall not be chargeable on any instrument by which the Secretary of State, or any nominee of the Treasury or the Secretary of State, transfers securities of a company to another company if—

a

either or both of the companies are successor companies; and

b

each of the companies is, at the time when the instrument is made,

wholly owned by the Crown.