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title: "Finance Act 1899"
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# Finance Act 1899

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

Finance Act 1899
1899 c.9
An Act to grant certain duties of Customs and Inland Revenue, to alter other duties, and to amend the Law relating to Customs and Inland Revenue, and to make other provision for the financial arrangements of the year.
[20th June 1899].

## 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-1}



## 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-2}



## 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-3}



## 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-4}



## 5 Extension of stamp duty on share warrants and stock certificates to bearer. {#section-5}

(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(2) . . . section one hundred and nine of the Stamp Act, 1891 (which relates to the penalty for issuing stock certificates unstamped), shall apply to any instrument chargeable with stamp duty . . . as a stock certificate to bearer in the same manner as it applies to the stock certificates to bearer named in that section, and as if “company or body of persons” were mentioned in sub-section one of that section as well as “ local authority.”

## 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-6}



## 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-7}



## 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-8}



## 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-9}



## 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-10}



## 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-11}



## 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-12}



## 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-13}



## 14 Construction of Part of Act. {#section-14}

This Part of this Act shall be construed together with the Stamp Act 1891.

## 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-15}



## 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-16}



## 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-17}



## 18 Short title. {#section-18}

This Act may be cited as the Finance Act 1899.

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