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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 28 March 2003 - onwards

143. Amendment of Schedule 1 to Principal Act.

(1) Schedule 1 to the Principal Act is amended -

(a) in the Heading "BILL OF EXCHANGE or PROMISSORY NOTE" by substituting "€0.15" for "€0.08" in both places where it occurs,

(b) in the Heading "CONVEYANCE or TRANSFER on sale of any stocks or marketable securities" by substituting "the amount so calculated shall, if less than €1, be rounded up to €1 and, if more than €1, be rounded down to the nearest €" for "the amount so calculated shall be rounded down to the nearest €",

(c) by substituting the paragraphs set out in Part 1 of Schedule 5 for paragraphs (7) to (14) of 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", and

(d) by substituting the subparagraph set out in Part 2 of Schedule 5 for subparagraph (b) of paragraph (3) of the Heading "LEASE".

(2) Subsection (4)(c) does not apply to paragraphs (c) and (d) of subsection (1) as respects any instrument executed before 1 March 2003, where -

(a) the effect of the application of subsection (4)(c) would be to increase the duty otherwise chargeable on the instrument, and