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Version date: 7 July 2012 - onwards
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Schedule 3 Modernisation of Stamping of Instruments: Introduction of Self Assessment and Consequential Changes, etc.

Section 107.

1. In this Schedule "Principal Act" means the Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999.

2. Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended by substituting the following for subsection (3):

"(3) Any instrument chargeable with stamp duty shall, unless it is written on duty stamped material, be duly stamped with the proper stamp duty before the expiration of 30 days after it is first executed.".

3. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended -

(a) in subsection (2) by deleting "(other than where the Commissioners are required to express their opinion in relation to the chargeability of the instrument to duty in accordance with section 20)",

(b) by substituting the following for subsection (5):