Section 8A Stamp duty land taxF1

This section applies to a land transaction by which land occupied wholly or partly for the purposes of an institution specified in column 1 of Schedule 6 to this Act is transferred by the Secretary of State to the body specified in relation to that institution in column 2 of that Schedule.

For the purposes of stamp duty land tax, the land transaction is exempt from charge.

Relief under this section must be claimed in a land transaction return or an amendment of such a return.

In this section——

• “land transaction” has the meaning given by section 43(1) of the Finance Act 2003;

• “land transaction return” has the meaning given by section 76(1) of that Act.