Stamp Duty Consolidation Act, 1999 (Number 31 of 1999)
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50A Agreements for more than 35 years charged as leases.
An agreement for a lease or with respect to the letting of any lands, tenements, or heritable subjects for any term exceeding 35 years, shall be charged with the same duty as if it were an actual lease made for the term and consideration mentioned in the agreement where 25 per cent or more of that consideration has been paid.
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50A Agreements for more than 35 years charged as leases.
(1) In this section “public private partnership arrangement” has the meaning assigned to it by section 3(1)(a) of the State Authorities (Public Private Partnership Arrangements) Act 2002.
(2) An agreement for a lease or with respect to the letting of any lands, tenements, or heritable subjects for any term exceeding 35 years, shall be charged with the same duty as if it were an actual lease made for the term and consideration mentioned in the agreement where 25 per cent or more of that consideration has been paid.
(3) Subsection (2) shall not apply to an agreement for a lease entered into solely in connection with a public private partnership arrangement.
(4) Where duty has been paid, in respect of an agreement for a lease, in accordance with subsection (2), a lease made in conformity with the agreement for a lease shall not be chargeable with any duty, and the Commissioners, on application, either shall denote the payment of the ad valorem duty on the lease, or shall transfer the ad valorem duty to the lease on production to them of the agreement for a lease, duly stamped.
(5) The ad valorem duty paid on any agreement for a lease, in accordance with subsection (2), shall be returned where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioners that the agreement for a lease has been rescinded or annulled.
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50A Agreements for more than 35 years charged as leases.
(1) An agreement for a lease or with respect to the letting of any lands, tenements, or heritable subjects for any term exceeding 35 years, shall be charged with the same stamp duty as if it were an actual lease made for the term and consideration mentioned in the agreement where 25 per cent or more of that consideration has been paid.
(2) The stamp duty paid on any agreement for a lease, in accordance with subsection (1), shall be returned where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioners that the agreement for a lease has been rescinded or annulled.
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Inserted by FA07 s110(1)(c). This section comes into operation on such day or days as the Minister for Finance may by order appoint and different days may be appointed for different purposes or different provisions.
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Inserted by F(No.2)A08 s82(1)(c). This section comes into operation on such day or days as the Minister for Finance may by order appoint and different days may be appointed for different purposes or different provisions.
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Inserted by FA13 s78(1)(c). Applies as respects instruments executed on or after 13 February 2013 other than instruments executed solely in pursuance of a binding contract or agreement entered into before 13 February 2013. Note: FA13 s78(2) Section 82 (other than subsection (2) of that section) of Finance (No. 2) Act 2008 is repealed.