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ORDINANCE No. 15 OF 1884 . 1803


Stamp.


No. 15 of 1884.

An Ordinance entitled The Stamp Ordinance, 1884.

[ 16th May, 1884. ]

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Preamble.
BT Council thereof, as follows :

1. In the construction of this Ordinance the term Collector shall include the person Definitions.
for the time being appointed by the Governor to have the control and management of
the stamp office .

Document shall mean any deed, instrument, or writing whatever. Document.

Material shall mean paper or parchment. Materia?.

Executed and Execution, with reference to documents not under seal, shall mean Execution.

signed and signature respectively.

2. The present Collector and all other officers of the stamp office are hereby Officers
continued.
continued in their offices. There shall be one general stamp office for the Colony, Office.
and such subsidiary stamp offices as the Governor may from time to time in his Subsidiary offices.
discretion appoint.

3. The Governor may from time to time appoint aud remove a chief officer who Staff.
[12 of 1866,
shall have the control and management of the stamp office, and such other officers as s. 3 and 4J

may from time to time be required to carry on the business of the Stamp Office.

4. For every document executed after the coming into force of this Ordinance of Duty payable
under schedule.
any of the kinds specified by the schedule as requiring stamps, there shall be payable [5 of 1868, s. 6.]

to Government a stamp duty of the amount indicated in the said schedule to be proper
for such document.
Every provision contained in the said schedule shall be of the same force as if it
were contained in the body of this Ordinance.

5. The Governor in Council may from time to time make and when made, revoke, Governor in
Council may
add to or alter rules, fixing lower rates of duty than those specified in the schedule, or lower or abolish
duties.
exempting from duty any of the documents mentioned in the schedule , and prescribing [12 of 1866, s. 25.]

the form, size, and material of the stamps to be used , and the mode and place of May make rules.
[See 12 of 1866,
impressing, affixing, or denoting thereupon the value of the same under the provisions s. 8 and 9.]

of this Ordinance, and the manner of writing upon or filling up such stamps, and
authorising or prohibiting the use of adhesive stamps for any documents required to
bear stamps, and generally for the execution of this Ordinance.

Penalties


6. Every person who commits any of the following offences shall, on summary Penalties for non
stamping, &c.
conviction thereof before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred [12 of 1866, s. 7,
12 and 10.]
dollars , that is to say :