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Court-fees Act, 1870 Section 28

Title: Stamping Documents Inadvertently Received

State: Central

Year: 1870

No document which ought to bear a stamp under this Act shall be of any validity, unless and until it is properly stamped. But, if any such document is through mistake or inadvertence received, filed or used in any Court or office without being properly stamped, the presiding Judge or the head of the office, as the case may be, or, in the case of a High Court, any Judge of such Court, may, if he thinks fit, order that such document be stamped as he may direct; and, on such document being stamped accordingly, the same and every proceeding relative thereto shall be as valid as if it had been properly stamped in the first instance.

Karnataka Court-fees and Suits Valuation Act, 1958 Section 5

Title: Fees on Documents Inadvertently Received

State: Karnataka

Year: 1958

When a document on which the whole or any part of the fee prescribed by this Act has not been paid is produced or has, through mistake or inadvertence, been received in any court or public office, the court or the head of the office may, in its or his discretion, at any time, allow the person by whom such fee is payable to pay the fee or part thereof, as the case may be, within such time as may be fixed; and upon such payment, the document shall have the same force and effect as if the full fee had been paid in the first instance.

Bombay Court-fees Act, 1959, (Maharashtra) Section 40

Title: Stamping Documents Inadvertently Received

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1959

No document which ought to bear a stamp under this Act shall be of any validity, unless and until it is properly stamped. But, if any such document is through mistake or inadvertence received, filed or used in any court or office without being properly stamped, the Presiding Judge or the Head of the Office, as the case may be, or, in the case of the High Court, any Judge of such Court, may, if he thinks fit, order that such document be stamped as he may direct; and on such document being stamped accordingly, the same and every proceeding relating thereto shall be as valid as if it had been properly stamped in the first instance.

Banking Regulation Act, 1949 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1949

.....on 19-9-1949. This Act now incorporates the provisions contained therein in the Banking Companies Act. 1949 as a pernabebt basis, in addition. this Act also amends the said Act for the following purposes :- (a) to incorporate special provisions for facilitating quick amalgamations between banking companies: (b) to empower the Reserve Bank to control opening of branches by Indian banks in foreign countries: (c) to provide a meaning of the terms "assets in India" for the purpose of section 25.-Gaz. of Ind.. 24-12-1949. Pt. V. p:501. Act 52 of 1953.- The Banking Companies Act. 1949 (X of 1949) was passed to ensure proper administration of the banking companies in India. The liquidation of banks, however, continued to be governed by the provisions of the Indian Companies Act, 1913. Experience of the liquidation of a large number of banks that failed during the post-war and post-partition period disclosed that the procedure for the liquidation of joint stock companies was totally inadequate for the liquidation of banking companies in a manner satisfactory to the depositors. A bank has a far larger number of debtors than a joint stock company of a comparable size, and the necessity to.....

The Pondicherry Court Fees and Suits Valuation Act, 1972 Complete Act

State: Pondicherry

Year: 1972

.....II. 21. Fees to be computed to the nearest multiple of five paise. " In the determination and computation of the amount of fee payable under this Act, any fraction of five paise less than two and a half paise shall be disregarded and any fraction of five paise equal to, or exceeding, two and a half paise shall be regarded as five paise. 22. Suits for money. " In a suit money (including a suit for damages or compensation, or arrears of maintenance, of annuities, or of other sums payable periodically), fee shall be computed on the amount claimed. 23. Suits for maintenance and annuities. - In the suits herein after maintained, fee shall be computed as follows :- (a) in a suit for maintenance, on the amount claimed to be payable for one year; (b) in a suit for enhancement or reduction of maintenance, on the amount by which the annual maintenance is sought to be enhanced or reduced; (c) in a suit for annuities or other sums payable periodically, on five times the amount claimed to be payable for one year: Provided that, where the annuity is payable for less than five years, the fee shall be computed on the aggregate of the sums payable: Provided further that a suit.....

Indian Stamp Act, 1899 Chapter V

Title: Allowances for Stamps in Certain Cases

State: Central

Year: 1899

.....papers has been duly paid. _____________________ 1. Inserted by Act 4 of 1914, Section 2 and Schedule, Part. I. 2. Inserted by Act 5 of 1906, Section 6. Section 52 - Allowance for misused stamps (a) When any person has inadvertently used for an instrument chargeable with duty, a stamp of a description other than that prescribed for such instrument by the rules made under this Act, or a stamp of greater value than was necessary, or has inadvertently used any stamp for an instrument not chargeable with any duty; or (b) when any stamp used for an instrument has been inadvertently rendered useless under section 15, owing to such instrument having been written in contravention of the provisions of section 13; the Collector may, on application made within six months after the date of the instrument, or, if it is not dated, within six months after the execution thereof by the person by whom it was first or alone executed, and upon the instrument, if chargeable with duty, being re-stamped with the proper duty, cancel and allow as spoiled the stamp so misused or rendered useless. Section 53 - Allowance for spoiled or misused stamps how to be made In any case in which.....

Karnataka Stamp Act, 1957 Chapter V

Title: Allowances for Stamps in Certain Cases

State: Karnataka

Year: 1957

.....the enquiry to be made, the1[Deputy Commissioner] may, on application made within the period prescribed in Section 48, and if he is satisfied as to facts, make allowance for impressed stamps spoiled in the cases hereinafter mentioned namely:- (a) the stamp on any paper inadvertently and undesignedly spoiled, obliterated or by any error in writing or any other means rendered unfit for the purpose intended before any instrument written thereon is executed by any person; (b) the stamp on any document which is written out wholly or in part, but which is not signed or executed by any party thereto; (c) the stamp used for an instrument executed by any party thereto which, - (1) has been afterwards found to be absolutely void in law from the beginning; (2) has been afterwards found unfit, by reason of any error or mistake therein, for the purpose originally intended; (3) by reason of the death of any person by whom it is necessary that it should be executed, without having executed the same, or of the refusal of any such person to execute the same, cannot be completed so as to effect the intended transaction in the form proposed; (4) for want of the execution thereof by.....

Indian Stamp Act, 1899 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1899

.....the purposes of this section, the expression "securities" shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (h) of Section 2 of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956 (42 of 1956). SECTION 09: POWER TO REDUCE, REMIT OR COMPOUND DUTIES (1) The Government may, by rule or order published in the Official Gazette- (a) reduce or remit, whether prospectively or retrospectively, in the whole or any part of the territories under its administration, the duties with which any instruments or any particular class of instruments, or any of the instruments belonging to such class, or any instruments when executed by or in favour of any particular class of persons, by or in favour of any members of such class, are chargeable; and (b) provide for the composition or consolidation of duties in the case of issues by any incorporate company or other body corporate4[or of transfers (where there is a single transferee, whether incorporated or not)] of debentures, bonds or other marketable securities. (2) In this section the expression "the Government" means- (a) in relation to stamp -duty in respect of bills of exchange, cheques, promissory notes, bills of lading, letters of credit, policies.....

The Indian Stamp Act, 1899 Complete Act

State: Assam

Year: 1899

THE INDIAN STAMP ACT, 1899 THE INDIAN STAMP ACT, 1899 [Act, No. 2 of 1899] [27th January, 1899] PREAMBLE An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to Stamps, WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to Stamps. It is hereby enacted as follows: - Chapter - 1 PRELIMINARY 1. Short title, extent and commencement :- (1) This Act may be called the Indian Stamp Act, 1899. (Substituted by Act 43 of 1955, Section3, for the former sub-section w.e.f. 1-4-1956) (2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir: Provided that it shall not apply to (Substituted by the A.O. (No.2) 1956, for "Part B States") [the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States] (excluding the State of Jammu and Kashmir) except to the extent to which the provisions of this Act relate to rates of stamp-duty in respect of the documents specified in entry 91 of List I in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution.] (3) It shall come into force on the first day of July, 1899. 2. Definitions:- In this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context, -- .....

The Kerala Stamp Act, 1959 Complete Act

State: Kerala

Year: 1959

THE KERALA STAMP ACT, 1959 THE KERALA STAMP ACT, 1959 (Act 17 of 1959) CONTENTS CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY Sections. 1. Short title, extent and commencement. 2. Definitions. CHAPTER II STAMP DUTIES. 3. Instruments chargeable with duty. 4. Several instruments used in single transactions of sale, mortgage or settlement. 5. Instruments relating to several distinct matters. 6. Instruments coming within several descriptions in Schedule. 7. Payment of higher duty in respect of certain instruments. 8. Bonds or other securities issued on a loans. 9. Power to reduce remit or compound duties. 10. Duties how to be paid. 11. Use of adhesive stamps. 12. Cancellation of adhesive stamps. 13. Instruments stamped with impressed stamps how to be written. 14. Only one instrument to be on same stamp. 15. Instruments written contrary to section 13 or 14 deemed unstamped. 16. Denoting duty. 17. Instruments executed in the State of Kerala. 18. Instruments executed out of India. 19. Payment of duty on certain instruments liable to increased duty in the State of Kerala. 20. Conversion of amount expressed in foreign currencies. 21. Stock and.....