Stamp Act Amendment Act 1961 (WA)

No. 21.] Stamp. [1961.

STAMP.

10° Elizabeth II., No. XXI.

No. 21 of 1961.

AN ACT to amend the Stamp Act, 1921-1960.

[Assented to 30th October, 1961.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

and citation. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Stamp Act

Amendment Act, 1961.

Reprinted as

approved for	(2) In this Act the Stamp Act, 1921-1960, is
reprint 1st

May, 1958, in	referred to as the principal Act.
vol. 12 of the
Reprinted
Acts and

further	(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act
Acts 190s.

amended by may be cited as the Stamp Act, 1921-1961.

64 and 72 of

1959 and Nos.

22 and 41 of

1961.] Stamp. [No. 21.

S. 16

2. Section sixteen of the principal Act is amended.

amended

(a) by substituting for the word, "From", being the first word in the section, the following passage

(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this

section, from ; and

(b) by adding a subsection as follows

(2) Without prejudice to the operation

of section nineteen of this Act, no stamp

Certain

duties shall be charged as provided in

Instruments exempt from

subsection (1) of this section upon any

stamp

instrument that contains or relates to a

Duty.

transaction in the official short term

money market.