Property Services Agency and Crown Suppliers Act 1990

3Stamp duty shall not be chargeable on any instrument which is certified to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue by the Secretary of State as being a scheme under section 1 of this Act (or as having been made or executed in pursuance of such a scheme) and as effecting a transfer of property, rights or liabilities to a company all the issued shares in which are held by or on behalf of the Crown; but no such instrument shall be taken to be duly stamped unless—

(a)it is stamped with the duty to which it would but for this paragraph be liable; or

(b)it has, in accordance with section 12 of the [1891 c. 39.] Stamp Act 1891, been stamped with a particular stamp denoting that it is not chargeable with any duty or that it is duly stamped.