The Stamp Duty and Stamp Duty Reserve Tax (Investment Exchanges and Clearing Houses) Regulations 2004

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Interpretation
     2. In these Regulations, except where otherwise provided - 

"clearing member" means a member of EDX London who is also a member of LCH.Clearnet and who as such is permitted by EDX London and that clearing house to clear futures and options contracts registered by LCH.Clearnet resulting from transactions relating to equities executed on EDX London or reported to it under the rules of EDX London;

"EDX London" means EDX London Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (registered number 4567917) which is a recognised investment exchange under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000[2];

"equities" means stocks and shares which are issued or raised by a company but does not include stocks and shares issued or raised by a company not incorporated in the United Kingdom unless - 

(a) they are registered in a register kept in the United Kingdom by or on behalf of the company; or

(b) in the case of shares, they are paired, within the meaning of section 99(6A) of the Finance Act 1986[3], with shares issued by a company incorporated in the United Kingdom;

"futures contract" means a futures contract or a forward contract conferring rights and obligations to buy or sell equities which is listed by or traded on EDX London or which may be reported to EDX London under the rules of EDX London;

"LCH.Clearnet" means LCH.Clearnet Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (registered number 4743602) which is a recognised clearing house under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;

"member" means a member of EDX London;

"non-clearing member" means a member who is not a clearing member;

"option" means an option, to buy or sell securities, which is listed by and traded on EDX London or which may be reported to EDX under the rules of EDX London.

Prescription of recognised investment exchange and recognised clearing house
     3. For the purposes of sections 116 and 117 of the Finance Act 1991 - 

(a) EDX London is a prescribed recognised investment exchange;

(b) LCH.Clearnet is a prescribed recognised clearing house.

Transfers of securities to LCH.Clearnet  -  prescribed circumstances
     4. No charge to stamp duty or to stamp duty reserve tax arises where, as a result of the exercise of options or the expiration of a futures contract, equities of a particular kind are transferred or issued or agreed to be transferred or issued to - 

(a) LCH.Clearnet; or

(b) a person whose business is or includes holding such securities as a nominee for LCH.Clearnet.

Here, and in regulation 5, references to LCH.Clearnet are references to that clearing house in its capacity as a person providing clearing services in connection with a transaction made on EDX London or reported to EDX London pursuant to the rules of EDX London.

Transfers of securities to or from members of EDX London  -  prescribed circumstances
     5. No charge to stamp duty or to stamp duty reserve tax arises where, in order to meet an obligation to receive securities resulting from the exercise of options or the expiration of a futures contract, equity securities of a particular kind are transferred or agreed to be transferred from - 

(a) a non-clearing member or a nominee of a non-clearing member to a clearing member or a nominee of a clearing member; or

(b) LCH.Clearnet or a nominee for LCH.Clearnet to a clearing member or a nominee of a clearing member.

Here, references to a clearing member are references to a clearing member in his capacity as such.


Joan Ryan

Nick Ainger
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

8th December 2004

[2] 2000 c. 8.back

[3] 1986 c. 41. Subsections (3) to (6A) of section 99 were substituted for subsections (3) to (6) by section 144(2) of the Finance Act 1988 (c. 36). Subsection (6A) was amended by section 113(2) of the Finance Act 1990 (c. 29). The whole of Part 4 of the 1986 Act is to be repealed from a date to be appointed (see sections 110 and 111(1) of the 1990 Act).back