ORDINANCE No. 16 of 1886 . 1995
Stamp.
7. Every person who commits any of the following offences shall, Penalties for
frauds.
on summary conviction thereof before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty
not exceeding five hundred 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 con
sideration money or amount involved .
Execution out of the Colony.
8. All documents whatever executed out of the Colony shall , when Execution out
of Colony.
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 Unstamped
documents
liable to stamp duty under this Ordinance shall be received as creating , not received
in evidence.
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 .
Stamping after execution .
10. Any Civil Court may direct the Collector to stamp and receive Powers of
Court.
the duty and penalty , if any, upon any document which may be stamped
after execution under this Ordinance . 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.