Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010

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Creation of joint tenancy in shared home exempt from fees.

38.— No land registration fee, Registry of Deeds fee or court fee shall be payable on any transaction creating a joint tenancy between civil partners in respect of a shared home where the home was immediately prior to such transaction owned by either civil partner or by both civil partners otherwise than as joint tenants.

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Instruments creating a joint tenancy between civil partners under section confirmed excluded from e-stamping system (7.07.2012) by Stamp Duty (E-stamping of Instruments and Self-Assessment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. No. 234 of 2012), reg. 3 and sch. 1 par. 2(b), in effect as per reg. 1(2).