Bare Act Search Results

Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Chapter IV

Title: Postage Stamps

State: Central

Year: 1898

.....articles, except where the Central Government directs that prepayment shall be made in some other way. 2[(2) Where the Central Government has directed that prepayment of postage or other sums chargeable under this Act in respect of postal articles may be made by prepaying the value denoted by the impressions of stamping machines issued under its authority, the impression of any such machine shall likewise be deemed to be a stamp issued by Government for the purpose of revenue, within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).] __________________________ 1. Section 17 renumbered as sub-section (1) thereof by Act 16 of 1924, section. 2. 2. Inserted. by Act 16 of 1924, section. 2.

Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 16

Title: Provision of Postage Stamps and Power to Make Rules as to Them

State: Central

Year: 1898

(1) The Central Government shall cause postage stamps to be provided of such kinds and denoting such values as it may think necessary for the purposes of this Act, (2) The Central Government may make rules as to the supply, sale and use of postage stamps. (3) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may-- (a) fix the price at which postage stamps shall be sold; (b) declare the classes of postal articles in respect of which postage stamps shall be used for the payment of postage or other sums chargeable under this Act; (c) prescribe the conditions with regard to perforation, defacement and all other matters subject to which postage stamps may be accepted or refused in payment of postage or other sums; (d) regulate the custody, supply and sale of postage stamps; (e) declare the persons by whom and the terms and conditions subject to which postage stamps may be sold; and (f) prescribe the duties and remuneration of persons selling postage stamps.

Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 17

Title: Postage Stamps to Be Deemed to Be Stamps for the Purpose of Revenue

State: Central

Year: 1898

1[(1)] Postage stamps provided under section 16 shall be deemed to be stamps issued by Government for the purpose of revenue within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) and, subject to the other provisions of this Act, shall be used for the prepayment of postage or other sums chargeable under this Act in respect of postal articles, except where the Central Government directs that prepayment shall be made in some other way. 2[(2) Where the Central Government has directed that prepayment of postage or other sums chargeable under this Act in respect of postal articles may be made by prepaying the value denoted by the impressions of stamping machines issued under its authority, the impression of any such machine shall likewise be deemed to be a stamp issued by Government for the purpose of revenue, within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).] __________________________ 1. Section 17 renumbered as sub-section (1) thereof by Act 16 of 1924, section. 2. 2. Inserted. by Act 16 of 1924, section. 2.

Promissory Notes (Stamp) Act, 1926 [Repealed] Preamble 1

Title: Promissory Notes (Stamp) Act, 1926

State: Central

Year: 1926

THE PROMISSORY NOTES (STAMP) ACT, 1926 [Act, No. 11 of 1926] [2nd March, 1926] PREAMBLE An Act to provide for the validation of certain promissory notes. WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the validation of certain promissory notes stamped with postage stamps of the denomination of two or four annas; It is hereby enacted as follows :--

Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 27

Title: Power to Deal with Postal Articles from Abroad Bearing Fictitious or Previously Used Stamps

State: Central

Year: 1898

.....not be delivered to him, but shall be disposed of in such manner as the Central Government may direct. Explanation.--For the purposes of this section, the expression "postage stamp" includes any postage stamp for denoting any rate or duty of postage of any part of2[India or of His Majesty's dominions] or foreign country3[and the impression of any stamping machine provided or authorized for the like purpose to by or under the authority of the Government of such4[part or country]]. __________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 25 of 1950, section. II and Schedule. IV, for "the States". 2. Substituted by the A.O. 1950, for "her Majesty's dominions or of any Indian State". 3. Inserted by Act 16 of 1924, section. 3. 4. Substituted by the A.O. 1950, for "part, State or country".

Promissory Notes (Stamp) Act, 1926 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1926

.....territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States].] SECTION 02: VALIDATION OF CERTAIN PROMISSORY NOTES A promissory note payable on demand for an amount exceeding two hundred and fifty rupees, executed after the 30th day of September, 1923, and before the 5th day of January, 1925, and stamped with an adhesive stamp or adhesive stamps inscribed for postage and of the value required by the law in force at the time the promissory note was executed, shall not, by reason only of the fact that the stamp or the stamps or any of them is or are of a description other than that required by such law, be deemed for any of the purposes of the Indian Stamp Act. 1899 -, or of the rules made thereunder, not to have been duly stamped. Central Bare Acts

Karnataka Stamp Act, 1957 Chapter II

Title: Stamp Duties

State: Karnataka

Year: 1957

.....to obtain loan,- (i) by any person for an agricultural purpose as defined in the Karnataka Agricultural Credit Operations Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1974 (Karnataka Act No. 2 of 1975); and (ii) by a public sector undertaking, for the purpose for which it is established]; 4 [Provided further that the State Government may in public interest reduce or remit by notification till 31st March, 2006, the stamp duty payable on any instrument, to be specified therein executed by, specified new Tiny, Small-Scale, Medium Scale or Large Scale Industrial Units or Mega Projects as defined in the new industrial policy vide Government Order No. CI 167 SPI 2001,dated 30-6-2001 or by such key projects of core area as defined in the said policy or specified by the State Government from time to time] 5 [Provided also that the State Government may in public interest reduce or remit, by notification, the stamp duty payable on any instrument, to be specified therein, executed by or in favour of Rajiv Gandhi Housing Corporation in connection with implementation of Housing programme for the economically weaker sections and special occupational categories both in rural and urban Area except for.....

Indian Stamp Act, 1899 Chapter II

Title: Stamp-duties

State: Central

Year: 1899

.....receipts shall not be liable to stamp duty.] _______________________________ 1. Inserted by the Warehousing (Development and Regulation) Act, 2007 [Act No. 37 of 2007]. Section 9 - Power to reduce, remit or compound duties 1 [(1)] 2 [The 3 [***]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 4 [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, or by or in favour of any members of such class, are chargeable, and (b) provide for the composition or consolidation of duties 5 [of policies of insurance and] in the case of issues by any incorporated company or other body corporate 6 [or of transfers (where there is a single transferee, whether incorporated or not)] 7 [(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.....

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.....

Indian Stamp Act, 1899 Chapter IV

Title: Instruments Not Duly Stamped

State: Central

Year: 1899

.....has been paid in respect of such instrument. (2) When such instrument has been impounded only because it has been written in contravention of section 13 or section 14, the Collector may refund the whole penalty so paid. _______________________ 1. The words "upon application made to him in this behalf or, if no application is made, with the consent of the Chief Controlling Revenue authority" omitted by Act 4 of 1914, Section 2 and Schedule, Pt. I. Section 40 - Collectors power to stamp instruments impounded (1) When the Collector impounds any instrument under section 33, or receives any instrument sent to him under section 38; sub- section (2), not being an instrument chargeable1[with a duty not exceeding ten naye paise] only or a bill of exchange or promissory note, he shall adopt the following procedure:- (a) if he is of opinion that such instrument is duly stampeded or is not chargeable with duty, he shall certify by endorsement thereon that it is duly stamped, or that it is not so chargeable, as the case may be; (b) if he is of opinion that such instrument is chargeable with duty and is not duly stamped, he shall require the payment of the proper duty or.....