Finance Act 1999

6 (1) The following provisions of the Stamp Duties Management Act 1891 shall cease to have effect—

• in section 2 (recovery of money received for duty), subsections (2) and (3);

• section 3 (power to grant licences to deal in stamps);

• section 4 (penalty for unauthorised dealing in stamps etc.);

• section 5 (provisions as to determination of a licence);

• section 6 (penalty for hawking stamps);

• section 8 (discount on sale of stamps);

• section 9(2) and (3) (cases in which allowance may be made for spoiled adhesive stamps);

• in section 11 (how allowance to be made), the words from “deducting therefrom” to the end;

• section 12 (repurchase of stamps by Commissioners);

• section 17 (proceedings for detection of stamps stolen or fraudulently obtained);

• section 18 (licensed person in possession of forged stamps to be presumed guilty);

• section 19 (mode of proceeding when stamps are seized);

• section 20 (defacement of adhesive stamps);

• section 25 (mode of granting licences).

(2) This paragraph comes into force on 1st October 1999.