Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910

Part V.

Stamps.

Stamp duty on conveyances or transfers on sale.

54 & 55 Vict. c. 39.

73. The stamp duties chargeable under the heading “Conveyance or Transfer on Sale of any Property” in the First Schedule to the Stamp Act, 1891 (in this Part of this Act referred to as the principal Act), shall be double those specified in that Schedule: Provided that this section shall not apply to the conveyance or transfer of any stock or marketable security as defined by section one hundred and twenty-two of that Act, or to a conveyance or transfer where the amount or value of the consideration for the sale does not exceed five hundred pounds and the instrument contains a statement certifying that the transaction thereby effected does not form part of a larger transaction or of a series of transactions in respect of which the amount or value, or the aggregate amount or value, of the consideration exceeds five hundred pounds.