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97. Certain transfers following the dissolution of a marriage.

(1) Subject to subsection (2), stamp duty shall not be chargeable on an instrument by which property is transferred pursuant to an order to which this subsection applies by either or both of the spouses or the civil partners who were parties to the marriage or the civil partnership concerned, as the case may be, to either or both of them.

(2)

(a) Subsection (1) applies -

(i) to a relief order, within the meaning of section 23 of the Family Law Act, 1995, made following the dissolution of a marriage,

(ii) to an order under Part III of the Family Law (Divorce) Act 1996 or Part 12 of the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010, or

(iii) to an order or other determination to like effect, which is analogous to an order referred to in subparagraph (i) or (ii), of a court under the law of another territory made under or in consequence of the dissolution of a marriage or a civil partnership, being a dissolution that is entitled to be recognised as valid in

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