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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2003/schedule-17A/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2003/schedule-17A/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/14",
  "legislation_title": "Finance Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/17A/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where a lease is granted in consideration of the surrender of an existing lease between the same parties—\n(a) the grant of the new lease does not count as chargeable consideration for the surrender, and\n(b) the surrender does not count as chargeable consideration for the grant of the new lease.\nParagraph 5 (exchanges) of Schedule 4 (chargeable consideration) does not apply in such a case.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 17A inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 39 para. 26 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2004 (c. 12), Sch. 39 para. 22(2) (which amending provision re-enacts, subject to certain changes, a corresponding amendment made by the now revoked Stamp Duty and Stamp Duty Land Tax (Variation of the Finance Act 2003) (No. 2) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2816), see Sch. 39 para. 14) (with Sch. 39 paras. 11, 13(5))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted for Sch. 17A para. 10(1)(f)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2024/22",
      "affecting_title": "Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/14/schedule/17A/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:27.996599+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}