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require his application to be referred to the Governor in Council whose decision thereon shall be final for all purposes.
(4) Upon any application for special leave under the provisions of this section, it shall be lawful for the Collector, or for the Governor in Council, to require such sworn or other evidence in support of the application as he may require.
(5) When an instrument has been stamped by special leave under the provisions of this section, such instrument shall be deemed to have been duly stamped for the purposes of section 6.
17. Every instrument executed out of the Colony by any person, not being a bill of exchange or a promissory note, shall, before being used, brought into force, or registered, within the Colony, be stamped according to the rate of duty to which it would have been liable if it had been executed in the first instance within the Colony, whatever the provisions of the Schedule may be with regard to the time before which or the period within which such an instrument, if executed in the first instance within the Colony, should be stamped.
Schedule.
Foreign bills and notes.
18.-(1) Every person into whose hands any bill of exchange or promissory note drawn or made out of the Colony comes in the Colony before it is stamped shall, before he presents for payment, or indorses, transfers, or in any manner negotiates, or pays the bill or note, affix thereto a proper adhesive stamp or proper adhesive stamps of sufficient amount, and cancel every stamp so affixed thereto.
(2) Provided as follows:-
(a) If at the time when any such bill or note comes into the hands of any bona fide holder there is affixed thereto an adhesive stamp effectually cancelled, the stamp shall, so far as relates to the holder, be deemed to be duly cancelled, although it may not appear to have been affixed or cancelled by the proper person; and
(b) If at the time when any such bill or note comes into the hands of any bona fide holder there is affixed thereto an adhesive stamp not duly cancelled, it shall be competent for
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924,
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require his application to be referred to the Governor in Council whose decision thereon shall be final for all pur-
poses.
(4) Upon any application for special leave under the provisions of this section, it shall be lawful for the Collector, or for the Governor in Council, to require such sworn or other evidence in support of the application as he may require.
(5) When an instrument has been stamped by special leave under the provisions of this section, such instrument shall be deemed to have been duly stamped for the purposes of section 6.
17. Every instrument executed out of the Colony by any of the Colony. person, not being a bill of exchange or a promissory note, 54 & 55 Vict. shall, before being used, brought into force, or registered, e. 39, s. 15 (2) within the Colony, be stamped according to the rate of duty to which it would have been liable if it had been executed in the first instance within the Colony, whatever the provisions of the Schedule may be with regard to the time before which or the period within which such an instrument, if executed in the first instance within the Colony, should be stamped.
Schedule.
Foreign bills
and notes.
c. 39, s. 35.
18.-(1) Every person into whose hands any bill of 54 & 55 Vict. exchange or promissory note drawn or made out of the Colony comes in the Colony before it is stamped shall, before he presents for payment, or indorses, transfers, or in any manner negotiates, or pays the bill or note, affix thereto a proper adhesive stamp or proper adhesive stamps of sufficient amount, and cancel every stamp so affixed thereto.
(2) Provided as follows:-
(a) If at the time when any such bill or note comes into the hands of any bona fide holder there is affixed thereto an adhesive stamp effectually cancelled, the stamp shall, so far as relates to the holder, be deemed to be duly cancelled, although it may not appear to have been affixed or cancelled by the proper person; and
(b) If at the time when any such bill or note comes into the hands of any bonâ fide holder there is affixed thereto an adhesive stamp not duly cancelled, it shall be competent for
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924,
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