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Liability for stamp duty land tax
16/11/09 from QED - Queries and Enquiries Database
Date created: 16/11/09.No-one other than the purchaser is initially liable for stamp duty land tax. The purchaser is the person acquiring the chargeable interest, and is not necessarily the person providing the consideration. Two or more purchasers acting jointly are jointly and severally liable for the tax, as indeed are partners where a partnership acquires land. Assignees of a lease may become
Licence / Consent to assign lease
16/11/09 from QED - Queries and Enquiries Database
Date created: 16/11/09Various licences are contained in the Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents, vol 22(3) (A) Landlord and Tenant (Business Tenancies) (2005 reissue) Forms 34 to 40.Form 34 Licence to assign whole?simple formForm 35 Licence to assign a 'new' tenancy with provision for third party guarantor: full formForm 36 Licence to assign an 'old' tenancy with provision for guarantor: full fo
Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session Amendment No 8) (Motions Procedure) 2009
12/11/09 from UK SI Summaries
SSI 2009/387: New email procedure for certain motions in Outer House causes made available
Licensing of private investigators
12/11/09 from QED - Queries and Enquiries Database
Date created: 12/11/2009Private Investigators are at present unregulated. However, the Private Security Industry Act 2001 (Schedule 2 (4) and (4A)) allows the Home Office to consider the licensing of private investigation and precognition agents and the Security Industry Authority, an independent body reporting to the Home Secretary, is in the process of developing an approach to licensing the act
Notaries public in Northern Ireland
12/11/09 from QED - Queries and Enquiries Database
Dated created: 12/11/09All solicitors in Northern Ireland are commissioners for oaths by virture of the Solicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976, which means that they can witness official documents other than those prepared by themselves or their opponents in a case. In addition to this, there are also solicitors in Northern Ireland who are notaries public, which means they can witness documents