Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Stamp Duty Reserve Tax (UK Depositary Interests in Foreign Securities) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2383) (“the principal Regulations”) which provide for UK depositary interests in foreign securities to be excluded from the definition of “chargeable securities” in Part IV of the Finance Act 1986 for the purposes of stamp duty reserve tax.

One of the conditions contained in the definition of “foreign securities” in regulation 2 of the principal Regulations is that the securities are of the same class in the body corporate concerned as securities listed on a recognised stock exchange outside the United Kingdom. The amendments made by these Regulations relax that condition so as to include securities listed on any recognised stock exchange.