Propose a change

Finance Act 1994

Write the words of this act the way you think they should read. Solon shows your change as a redline against the published text and pins it to that exact text, so it can never be applied to wording you did not see.

Change 1

What to do with it
As published

240 Time for presenting agreement for lease.

(1) This section applies if there are presented for stamping at the same time in pursuance of Schedule 13 to the Finance Act 1999— (a) an agreement for a lease, and (b) the lease which gives effect to the agreement, and the duty (if any) chargeable on the agreement is paid. (2) Section 15A of that Act (interest payable on late stamping) applies in relation to the agreement as if the reference to the day on which the instrument was executed were to the day on which the lease was executed. (3) For the purposes of section 15B of that Act (penalty on late stamping) the agreement is treated— (a) as if it had been executed at the same time and place as the lease, and (b) where the lease was executed outside the United Kingdom, as if it had been first received in the United Kingdom at the same time as the lease. (4) For the purposes of this section a lease gives effect to an agreement if the lease is granted subsequent to the agreement and either is in conformity with the agreement or relates to substantially the same property and term as the agreement. (5) References in this section to an agreement for a lease include missives of let in Scotland.

Your change, as a redline

240 Time for presenting agreement for lease.

(1) This section applies if there are presented for stamping at the same time in pursuance of Schedule 13 to the Finance Act 1999— (a) an agreement for a lease, and (b) the lease which gives effect to the agreement, and the duty (if any) chargeable on the agreement is paid. (2) Section 15A of that Act (interest payable on late stamping) applies in relation to the agreement as if the reference to the day on which the instrument was executed were to the day on which the lease was executed. (3) For the purposes of section 15B of that Act (penalty on late stamping) the agreement is treated— (a) as if it had been executed at the same time and place as the lease, and (b) where the lease was executed outside the United Kingdom, as if it had been first received in the United Kingdom at the same time as the lease. (4) For the purposes of this section a lease gives effect to an agreement if the lease is granted subsequent to the agreement and either is in conformity with the agreement or relates to substantially the same property and term as the agreement. (5) References in this section to an agreement for a lease include missives of let in Scotland.

One line that says what changes, such as "Halve the dog tax".

Who it helps, what it costs, what it fixes. It is what persuades people to support it.

A proposal here is not law. Support on Solon is evidence that people want the change; the official route says what it takes to make it law.

Sign in to file your proposal. What you have written stays on this page.

Sign in to file it

Think it through

Ask what your change would do, who would gain and who would bear a cost, and where something like it is already law. The assistant reads your draft as it stands, cites the law and the studies it finds, and takes no side. What you file stays yours.

Questions to start with
Think it through
Legal information from the published text, not advice for your case. Check the sources. Find a law · What the register holds