Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Stamp Duty Land Tax (Service of Documents) Regulations 2022 and come into force on 6th December 2022.

Prescribed places for delivery and service of documents: companies

2.—(1) The places in paragraph (2) are prescribed for the purposes of section 84(3)(b) of the Finance Act 2003 as places to which a notice or other document served under Part 4 of that Act may be properly addressed for the purposes of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978( 2).

(2) These places are—

(a) the company’s registered office; and

(b) the purchaser’s address provided to HMRC on the company’s land transaction return.

(3) In this regulation “ registered office” means—

(a) in relation to a company incorporated in the United Kingdom, the address of the registered office that a company is required to have under section 86 of the Companies Act 2006( 3);

(b) in relation to any other company, any address that it is required to have under an equivalent provision in the law of the country or territory of its incorporation.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which come into effect on 6th December 2022, prescribe that a company’s registered office and the address it provides on its land transaction return are addresses to which a notice or other document under Part 4 of the Finance Act 2003 (stamp duty land tax) may be given, delivered or served by HMRC and be properly addressed for the purposes of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978.

The effect of these Regulations is that any such notice or other document sent to the prescribed places will be properly addressed for the purposes of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978, and service will be deemed to be effective unless the contrary is proved.