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STAMP DUTIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1891 - SECT 9

9. Subject to such regulations as the Commissioners may think proper to make,
and to the production of such evidence by statutory declaration or otherwise
as the Commissioners may require, allowance is to be made by the Commissioners
for stamps spoiled in the cases hereinafter mentioned (that is to say):

(1)The stamp on any material inadvertently and undesignedly spoiled,
obliterated, or by any means rendered unfit for the purpose intended, before
the material bears the signature of any person or any instrument written
thereon is executed by any party:

(2)Any adhesive stamp which has been inadvertently and undesignedly spoiled or
rendered unfit for use and has not in the opinion of the Commissioners been
affixed to any material:

(3)Any adhesive stamp representing a fee capable of being collected by means
of such stamp which has been affixed to material provided that a certificate
from the proper officer is produced to the effect that the stamp should be
allowed:

(4)The stamp on any bill of exchange signed by or on behalf of the drawer
which has not been accepted or made use of in any manner whatever or delivered
out of his hands for any purpose other than by way of tender for acceptance:

(5)The stamp on any promissory note signed by or on behalf of the maker which
has not been made use of in any manner whatever or delivered out of his hands:

(6)The stamp on any bill of exchange or promissory note which from any
omission or error has been spoiled or rendered useless, although the same,
being a bill of exchange, may have been accepted or indorsed, or, being a
promissory note, may have been delivered to the payee, provided that another
completed and duly stamped bill of exchange or promissory note is produced
identical in every particular, except in the correction of the error or
omission, with the spoiled bill or note:

(7)The stamp used for any of the following instruments; that is to say:

(a)An instrument executed by any party thereto, but afterwards found to be
absolutely void from the beginning:

(b)An instrument executed by any party thereto, but afterwards found unfit, by
reason of any error or mistake therein, for the purpose originally intended:

<(c)An instrument executed by any party thereto which has not been made use of for any purpose whatever, and which by reason of the inability or refusal of some necessary party to sign the same or to complete the transaction according to the instrument, is incomplete and insufficient for the purpose for which it was intended:


(d)An instrument executed by any party thereto, which by reason of the refusal
of any person to act under the same, or for want of enrolment or registration
within the time required by law, fails of the intended purpose or becomes
void:

<(e)An instrument executed by any party thereto which is inadvertently and undesignedly spoiled, and in lieu whereof another instrument made between the same parties and for the same purpose is executed and duly stamped, or which becomes useless in consequence of the transaction intended to be thereby effected being effected by some other instrument duly stamped:


Provided as follows:

(a)That the application for relief is made within [two years] after the stamp
has been spoiled or become useless or in the case of an executed instrument
after the date of the instrument, or, if it is not dated, within [two years]
after the execution thereof by the person by whom it was first or alone
executed or within such further time as the Commissioners may prescribe in the
case of any instrument sent abroad for execution or when from unavoidable
circumstances any instrument for which another has been substituted cannot be
produced within the said period:

(b)That in the case of an executed instrument no legal proceeding has been
commenced in which the instrument could or would have been given or offered in
evidence, and that the instrument is given up to be cancelled:

Para.(c) rep. by SLR 1973

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