Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910

Provision as to Crown lands, &c.

10 Geo. 4. c. 50. 8 Edw. 7. c. 48.

10.(1) Any increment value duty in respect of the fee simple of, or any interest in, any land held by, or in trust for, His Majesty or any department of Government, which would have been collected on any occasion had it been held by a private person, shall for the purposes of the provisions of this Act as to the collection of increment value duty be deemed to have been paid.

(2) Neither section seventy-seven of the Crown Lands Act, 1829, nor section thirty-eight of the Post Office Act, 1908, nor any other enactment exempting from stamp duty any document made or executed on behalf of, or for the purpose of, the Crown or any Government department, shall apply so as to prevent increment value duty being collected on any instrument by which the transfer on sale of the fee simple of, or any interest in, any land, or the grant of any lease of any land, to the Crown or to any Government department, or to any officer on behalf of, or for the purposes of, the Crown or any Government department, is effected or agreed to be effected.