1804
Tenalties for
franda.
(12 of 1886, s. 14 and 27)
Excention out of
Colony.
[See 12 of 1800, s. 11.]
Unstamped
documents not
received in
evidence.
[12 of 1866, s. 15.]
Court may order to be stampeil within certain Jimits.
(See 12 of 1866, s. 18)
ORDINANCE No. 15 of 1884.
Stamp.
1. Drawing, accepting, issuing, endorsing, negotiating, paying, or receiving payment of any bill of exchange, promissory note, or other similar instrument or making, executing, or signing (except as hereinafter provided) any document enumerated in the schedule on unstamped or insufficiently stamped material.
2. Delivery out of his hands, custody, or power of any document upon which an adhesive stamp has been affixed under this Ordinance without cancelling the said stamp so that it cannot be used again.
3. Any breach of this Ordinance not specially provided for.
7. Every person who commits any of the following offences shall, on summary conviction thereof before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars, that is to say:--
A
1. Drawing any bill of exchange purporting to be drawn in a set of two or more without drawing on duly stamped material the whole number of bills constituting such set.
2. Knowingly and wilfully executing any document charged under the schedule with ad valorem duty, in which the consideration money or amount involved is not truly expressed and set forth, with intent to avoid full payment of stamp duty, or knowingly and wilfully inserting or setting forth or procuring to be inserted or set forth in such document a less amount than the full and true consideration money or amount involved.
Execution out of the Colony.
8. All documents whatever executed out of the Colony shall, when brought into force or registered within the Colony, be liable to the same rates of stamp duty as if they had been executed within the Colony.
Reception in evidence.
9. Except as otherwise provided by this Ordinance, no document liable to stamp duty under this Ordinance shall be received as creating, transferring, or extinguishing any right or obligation, or as evidence in any civil proceeding in any Court of Justice in the Colony, or shall be acted upon, registered, or authenticated in any such Court or Public or other office or by any public officer unless such document be stamped according to this Ordinance or in accordance with the law in force in the Colony at the time it was executed. Provided that whatever powers are vested by this Ordinance in the Collector as to stamping after execution may be exercised within the limits of such powers by any Civil Court, which may direct the Collector to stamp and receive the duty and penalty, if any, upon any document which might otherwise have been stamped by him in the exercise of such powers. Such duty and penalty shall be paid into Court, and shall be remitted to the Collector with the document to be stamped after the document has been admitted in evidence. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 2 of 1885 and new section substituted.]