Finance Act, 2000

Amendment of Schedule 1 to Principal Act.

133.—(1) Schedule 1 to the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by the substitution under the Heading “CONVEYANCE or TRANSFER on sale of any property other than stocks or marketable securities or a policy of insurance or a policy of life insurance” of the following paragraph for paragraph (15):

“(15) Where in the case of a conveyance or transfer on sale or in the case of a conveyance or transfer operating as a voluntary disposition inter vivos the instrument contains a certificate by the party to whom the property is being conveyed or transferred to the effect that the person becoming entitled to the entire beneficial interest in the property (or, where more than one person becomes entitled to a beneficial interest in the property, each of them) is related to the person or each of the persons immediately theretofore entitled to the entire beneficial interest in the property in one or other of the following ways, that is, as a lineal descendant, parent, grandparent, step-parent, husband or wife, brother or sister of a parent or brother or sister, or lineal descendant of a parent, husband or

wife or brother or sister

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a duty of an amount equal to one-half of the ad valorem stamp duty which, but for the provisions of this paragraph, would be chargeable under this heading but where the calculation results in an amount which is not a multiple of £1 the amount so calculated shall be rounded up to the nearest £.”,

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(b) by the substitution in paragraph (1) of the Heading “LEASE” of “£15,000” for “£6,000”.

(2) (a) Subsection (1)(a) shall have effect in relation to instruments executed on or after 10 February 2000.

(b) Subsection (1)(b) shall have effect in relation to instruments executed on or after 1 December 1999.