Part I (ss.1,2)—Death Duties
Part II (ss.3‐5) rep. by SLR (NI) 1952; 1954 c.17 (NI); SLR 1980
PART IIIN.I.STAMP DUTIES
Ss.6‐9 rep. by 1949 c.15 (NI); SLR (NI) 1952; 1952 c.13 (NI); 1956 c.11 (NI); SL(R) 1976
10Duty in respect of property acquired by means of certain vesting orders.N.I.
(1)Where by the operation of a vesting order made by any Ministry of Northern Ireland under or by virtue of the Roads Improvement Act (Northern Ireland), 1928 M1, or any subsequent enactment (including an enactment passed after this Act) of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, any land (including land covered by water) or any easement or right in or over any land is vested in any local or public authority (not being a Ministry of Northern Ireland) the following provisions shall have effect with respect to the stamp duty chargeable on such vesting:—
(a)the vesting order shall not be deemed to be an instrument upon which stamp duty is chargeable;
(b)the instrument upon which stamp duty is chargeable shall—
(i)where the compensation money payable in respect of such vesting is paid into court by the local or public authority, as the case may be, be the receipt given to the authority for that payment by the proper officer of the court [F1 or the certificate or privity given by such officer in respect of that payment]; and
(ii)where the said compensation money is not paid into court, be the receipt given to the authority by the person to whom the compensation money is paid;
(c)the stamp duty chargeable on each such receipt [F1 certificate or privity] as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) of the last preceding paragraph shall be the ad valorem stamp duty which would be payable on a conveyance on sale of the land or rights to which the receipt [F1 certificate or privity] relates for a consideration which is the compensation money for which the receipt [F1 certificate or privity] is given;
(d)each such receipt [F1 certificate or privity] as aforesaid shall, notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (6) of section nine of the Finance Act (Northern Ireland), 1936 M2 (which section requires the presentation to the Ministry of particulars as to certain transfers and lettings of land) or in any regulations made under that sub-section, be deemed to be an instrument by means of which a transfer on sale of an interest in land is effected and to which the provisions of the said section nine applies.
Subs.(2) rep. by SLR (NI) 1953
Part IV (ss.11 - 13) rep. by 1949 c.15 (NI); 1949 c.23 (NI)Part V (ss.14,15) rep. by 1949 c.15 (NI); SI 1973/2163; 1975 c.7; 1978 NI 11Part VI (s.16) rep. by SLR (NI) 1952; SLR (NI) 1953; 1956 c.17 (NI); 1972 NI 11PART VIIN.I.SUPPLEMENTAL
S.17 rep. by SLR (NI) 1952
18Short title and construction.N.I.
(1)This Act may be cited as the Finance Act (Northern Ireland), 1948.
(2)… Death Duties …, Part III of this Act shall be construed as one with the Stamp Act, 1891 M3.
Subs.(3)(4) rep. by 1954 c.33 (NI)
Marginal Citations