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No. 8 of 1921.

STAMP.

Share.

c. 39, s. 122.

stock, or any security, is settled or agreed to be settled in any manner whatsoever.

(28) "Share" includes any share in any stocks or funds transferable at the Bank of England or at the Bank of Ireland, and India promissory notes, and any share in the stocks or funds of any foreign or colonial state or government, or in the capital, stock or funded debt of any county council, corporation, company, or society in the United Kingdom, or in the Colony, or of any foreign or colonial corporation, company, or society.

Share contract note.

10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5, c. 8.

(29) "Share contract note" means the note sent by a broker or agent to his principal, or by any person who by way of business deals, or holds himself out as dealing, as a principal in any shares or marketable securities, advising the principal, or the vendor or purchaser, as the case may be, of the sale or purchase of any shares or marketable securities.

s. 77 (3).

Regulations.

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Schedule.

4.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for the following purposes:-

(a) for amending any of the provisions of the Schedule, provided that no such amendment shall have the effect of increasing any stamp duty specified in the said Schedule or of imposing any new or additional duty not specified in the said Schedule;

(b) for imposing any obligations, in addition to those imposed in this Ordinance and in the said Schedule, which the Governor in Council may deem advisable in connexion with the payment of stamp duty: Provided that no such obligation shall have the effect of increasing any stamp duty specified in the said Schedule or of imposing any new or additional duty not specified in the said Schedule;

(c) for giving directions as to the manner in which any stamp duty payable under this Ordinance is to be calculated or ascertained;

(d) for prescribing methods of stamping and denoting; and

(e) generally for carrying out the objects of this Ordinance.

* As amended by Law Rev: Ord., 1924.

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