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Version date: 23 March 2000 - onwards

126. Amendment of section 81 (relief from stamp duty in respect of transfers to young trained farmers) of Principal Act.

(1) Section 81 of the Principal Act is amended:

(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (2):

"(2) No stamp duty shall be chargeable under or by reference to 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' in Schedule 1 on any instrument to which this section applies.",

(b) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (6):

"(6) Subsection (2) shall not apply to an instrument unless it has, in accordance with section 20, been stamped with a particular stamp denoting that it is not chargeable with any duty or that it is duly stamped.",

(c) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (7):

"(7)

(a) If and to the extent that any person to whom land was conveyed or transferred by any instrument in respect of which relief from duty under this section was allowed -

(i) disposes of such land, or part of such land, within a period of 5 years from the date of execution of the instrument, and

(ii) does not replace such land with other land within a period of one year from the date of such disposal,