Preamble, **The Registration of Instruments (Amendment) Act, 2000.** [Margin: Short title.]

3 SIGNED this *4th* day of *April, 2000.* ALHAJI AHMAD TEJAN KABBAH, *President.* (LS) No. 7 [Coat of arms: UNITY FREEDOM JUSTICE] Sierra Leone 2000 **The Registration of Instruments (Amendment) Act, 2000.** [Margin: Short title.] **Being an Act to amend the Registration of Instruments Act.** *[8th June, 2000]* [Margin: Date of commencement.] ENACTED by the President and Members of Parliament in this present Parliament assembled. 4 No. 7 *The Registration of Instruments (Amendment) Act* 2000 [Margin: Commencement.] **1.** This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 1st day of January, 2000. [Margin: Cap 256 amended.] **2.** The Registration of Instruments Act is amended as follows:– (a) by the repeal and replacement of subsection (3) of section 4 by the following subsections: — "(3) On the registration of every transaction under subsection (2) there shall be paid to the Registrar-General a land registration tax at the rates specified in the Third Schedule. (4) The President may by statutory instrument exempt any transaction from the payment of any tax specified in the Third Schedule." (b) by the insertion immediately after the Second Schedule of the following Schedule: — "THIRD SCHEDULE (Section 4(3) | | *Location* | *Rate of tax* | |---|---|---| | 1. | The Central Ward of Freetown ... | Le100,000.00 per acre | | 2. | The Eastern and Western wards of Freetown ... ... | Le40,000.00 per acre | | 3. | The First, Second and Third urban areas of Freetown ... ... | Le20,000.00 per acre | | 4. | The Areas within the jurisdiction of any Town Council in the Provinces... | Le40,000.00 per acre | | 5. | All other areas in Sierra Leone ... | Le200.00 per acre". | Passed in Parliament this *28th* day of *March,* in the year of our Lord *two thousand.* J. A. CARPENTER, *Clerk of Parliament.* THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed Parliament and found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill. J. A. CARPENTER, *Clerk of Parliament.* PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING DEPARTMENT, SIERRA LEONE. *GAZETTE* No. 28 OF 8TH JUNE, 2000.