Stock Exchange (Completion of Bargains) Act 1976

6 Forms for transfer of securities. U.K.

(1) In section 3 of the M1 Stock Transfer Act 1963 (which among other things provides that the Treasury may by order amend the Schedules to that Act by altering the transfer forms set out in those Schedules or substituting different forms for those forms or adding forms for use as alternatives to those forms) after subsection (4) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

“(5) An order under subsection (2) of this section may—

(a) provide for forms on which some of the particulars mentioned in subsection (1) of section 1 of this Act are not required to be specified;

(b) provide for that section to have effect, in relation to such forms as are mentioned in the preceding paragraph or other forms specified in the order, subject to such amendments as are so specified (which may include an amendment of the reference in subsection (1) of that section to an instrument under hand);

(c) provide for all or any of the provisions of the order to have effect in such cases only as are specified in the order.”

(2) The subsection (5) inserted in the said section 3 by the preceding subsection shall extend to Northern Ireland in accordance with the provisions of section 5(1) and (2) of the said Act of 1963.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 The text of s. 6(1) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

Marginal Citations

M1 1963 c. 18