1804 ORDINANCE No. 15 CF 1884.
Stamp.
1. Drawing, accepting, isssuing, endorsing, negociating, 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 cancel
ling the said stamp so that it cannot be used again.
3. Any breach of this Ordinance not specially provided for.
Penalties for 7. Every person who commits any of the following offences shall, on summary
frauds.
[12 of 1866, s. 14 conviction thereof before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred
and 27.1
dollars, that is to say :—
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.
Execution out of 8. All documents whatever executed out of the Colony shall, when brought into
Colony.
[See 12 of 1866, force or registered within the Colony , be liable to the same rates of stamp duty as if
s. 11.]
they had been executed within the Colony.
Reception in evidence .
Unstamped 9. Except as otherwise provided by this Ordinance, no document liable to stamp
documents not
received in
evidence. duty under this Ordinance shall be received as creating, transferring, or extinguishing
[12 of 1866, s. 15.] 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 accord
ing to this Ordinance or in accordance with the law in force in the Colony at the time
Court may order it was executed. Provided that whatever powers are vested by this Ordinance in the
to be stamped
within certain
limits. Collector as to stamping after execution may be exercised within the limits of such
[ See 12 of 1866,
s. 18.1 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 docu
ment has been admitted in evidence. [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 2 of 1885 and new
section substituted. ]