{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stamp-act-1891/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stamp-act-1891/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/54-55/39",
  "legislation_title": "Stamp Act 1891",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stamp-act-1891",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "All duties to be paid according to regulations of Act.",
  "text": "All stamp duties for the time being chargeable by law upon any instruments are to be paid and denoted according to the regulations in this Act contained, and except where express provision is made to the contrary are to be denoted by stamps produced by means of a die only.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 2 substituted (22.4.2019) by The Stamp Duty (Method of Denoting Duty) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/719), regs. 1, 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/54-55/39/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T18:16:52.537506+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}