These Regulations provide relief from stamp duty land tax on the first acquisition of a dwelling which is a zero-carbon home in accordance with sections 58B and 58C of the Finance Act 2003 More
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The Stamp Duty and Stamp Duty Reserve Tax (Investment Exchanges and Clearing Houses) (Eurex Clearing AG) 2007 (S.I. 2007/1097) (“the principal Regulations”) make provision in accordance with sections 116 and 117 of the Finance Act 1991 (c. 31) that a charge to stamp duty or stamp duty reserve tax shall be treated as not arising in prescribed circumstances More
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These Regulations may be cited as the Stamp Duty Land Tax (Deferred Payments) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 1st December 2003 More
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Stamp Duty Land Tax, introduced in Finance Act 2003, is a charge on transactions and is designed to replace the current stamp duty on land and buildings. The tax is effective from 1 December 2003 More
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In presenting his 2003 Budget, the Chancellor promised that further consultation with interested parties would continue in connection with the Stamp Duty Land Tax charge on leases. Following this consultation, an announcement has been made about the changes to be implemented to Schedule 5, Finance Act 2003 (which deals with the Stamp Duty Land Tax treatment of leases) for 1 December 2003 More
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These Regulations amend the Home Information Pack (No. 2) Regulations 2007 (“the principal Regulations”). Under sections 155 to 159 of the Housing Act 2004, a home information pack must comply with the principal Regulations More
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An Act to make provision in respect of party walls, and excavation and construction in proximity to certain buildings or structures; and for connected purposes More
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An Act to confer rights to collective enfranchisement and lease renewal on tenants of flats; to make further provision with respect to enfranchisement by tenants of houses; to make provision for auditing the management, by landlords or other persons, of residential property and for the approval of codes of practice relating thereto; to amend Parts III and IV of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987; to confer jurisdiction on leasehold valuation tribunals as respects Crown land; to make provision for rendering void agreements preventing the occupation of leasehold property by persons with mental disorders; to amend Parts II, IV and V of the Housing Act 1985 More
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The information within this guide applies to: leases dated on or after 13 October 2003; leases existing before 13 October 2003; assignments, transfers (on sale, by way of gift or by order of court) or assents, including vesting assents, dated on or after 13 October 2003, of existing leasehold estates having more than 7 years of the term left to run. More
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The main purpose of these Regulations is to prescribe the documents to be included in home information packs and the circumstances in which they are included (Parts 1 to 4 of the Regulations). The duties to have a home information pack which complies with these Regulations are found in sections 155 to 159 of the Housing Act 2004 ("the home information pack duties"). In general, the duties apply to a "responsible person" as described in sections 151 to 153 of the Housing Act 2004 More
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An Act to authorise the use of resources for the service of the years ending with 31st March 2005 and 31st March 2006 and to apply certain sums out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending with 31st March 2006; and to appropriate the supply authorised in this Session of Parliament for the service of the year ending with 31st March 2005 and the further supply authorised in this session of Parliament for the service of the year ending with 31st March 2006 More
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An Act to establish the Infrastructure Planning Commission and make provision about its functions; to make provision about, and about matters ancillary to, the authorisation of projects for the development of nationally significant infrastructure; to make provision about town and country planning; to make provision about the imposition of a Community Infrastructure Levy; and for connected purposes. More
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These rules amend the Commonhold (Land Registration) Rules 2004 (the principal rules) as a consequence of amendments made to the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 (2002 c.15) by the Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941). More
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These Regulations amend Schedule 2 to the Assured and Protected Tenancies (Lettings to Students) Regulations 1998 to specify Beach General Partner Limited and Beach Nominee Limited for the purpose of paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to the Housing Act 1988. The effect of specification is that a tenancy granted by the body in question to a student at an educational institution specified in the 1988 Regulations is not an assured tenancy for the purposes of the 1988 Act. More
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These Regulations further amend (in relation to England) the Housing Renewal Grants Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2890) (“the principal Regulations”), which set out the means test for determining the amount of grant which may be paid by local housing authorities under Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996. More
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These Regulations make amendments to the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006, the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006, the Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006 and the Council Tax Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006. More
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These Regulations exempt from stamp duty and stamp duty reserve tax (“SDRT”) certain transfers of, or agreements to transfer traded securities made in the course of trading in those securities on the Facility. The transfers and agreements exempted are those involving EuroCCP and/or LCH.Clearnet Limited and/or SIX X-CLEAR AG (“X-CLEAR”) (and nominees of either clearing house), through whom transactions on the Facility are cleared, or clearing participants in EuroCCP or LCH.Clearnet Limited or SIX X-CLEAR AG (and their nominees). These Regulations also exempt transactions on the Facility between EuroCCP, LCH.Clearnet Limited and SIX X-CLEAR AG. More
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An Act to make further provision with respect to dwelling-houses let on tenancies or occupied under licences; to amend the Rent Act 1977 and the Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976; to establish a body, Housing for Wales, having functions relating to housing associations; to amend the Housing Associations Act 1985 and to repeal and re-enact with amendments certain provisions of Part II of that Act; to make provision for the establishment of housing action trusts for areas designated by the Secretary of State; to confer on persons approved for the purpose the right to acquire from public sector landlords certain dwelling-houses occupied by secure tenants; to make further provision about rent officers, the administration of housing benefit and rent allowance subsidy, the right to buy, repair notices and certain disposals of land and the application of capital money arising thereon; to make provision consequential upon the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988; and for connected purposes More
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These Regulations prescribe that class as consisting of all buildings or parts of buildings except those listed in regulation 4 (regulation 3). Those exceptions include all properties which have been continuously empty for three months or less More
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An Act to prohibit the making of false or misleading statements about property matters in the course of estate agency business and property development business More
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These Regulations make provision for the Real Estate Investments Trusts Regime (“the UK-REIT regime”), which was introduced by Part 4 of the Finance Act 2006 (c.25) (“the Act”) and amended by Schedule 17 to the Finance Act 2007 (c.11), to apply to joint ventures carried on through groups of companies. These Regulations provide that companies within the UK-REIT regime may elect to treat a joint venture carried on through a group of companies in which they have an interest (and which joint venture is not a group within the UK-REIT regime) to be treated in accordance with these Regulations as being within the UK-REIT regime More
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This Order amends Part 2 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (security of tenure for business, professional and other non-residential tenants) ("Part 2"). Amongst other things, the Act provides that a tenancy to which Part 2 applies continues unless terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Act, and enables the tenant to apply to the court for a new tenancy More
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