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INDIAN STAMP (UTTAR PRADESH AMENDMENT) ACT, 1988

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INDIAN STAMP (UTTAR PRADESH AMENDMENT) ACT, 1988

Preamble - INDIAN STAMP (UTTAR PRADESH AMENDMENT) ACT, 1988

THE INDIAN STAMP (UTTAR PRADESH AMENDMENT) ACT, 1988

[Act No. 23 of 1988]

[08th November, 1988]

PREAMBLE

An Act further to amend the Indian Stamp Act, 1899, in its application to Uttar Pradesh

It is hereby enacted in the Thirty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows:

Section 1 - Short title, extent and commencement

(1)     This Act may be called the Indian Stamp (Uttar Pradesh Amendment) Act, 1988.

 

(2)     It shall extend to the whole of Uttar Pradesh.

 

(3)     It shall be deemed to have come into force on June 24, 1988.

Section 2 - Amendment of Article 3 of Schedule 1-B to Act no. 2 of 1899

In Schedule 1-B to the Indian Stamp Act, 1899, hereinafter referred to as the said Schedule, in Article 3 (Adoption-Deed), in the column relating to the "Proper Stamp Duty" for the words "Seventy-five rupees" the words 'one hundred rupees" shall be substituted.

Section 3 - Amendment of Article 6 of the said Schedule

In the said Schedule, in Article 6 (Agreement relating to deposit of title deeds, pawn or pledge), in clause (2), in sub-clause (a), in the column relating to the "Proper stamp duty" for the figures set out in column 1 of the table below, the figures set out respectively against them in column 2 thereof shall be substituted, namely:--

Column 1

Column 2

Rs. P.

Rs. P.

1.50

3.00

3.00

6.00

4.50

9.00

6.00

12.00

7.50

15.00

9.00

18.00

12.00

24.00

18.75

37.50

37.50

75.00

56.25

112.50

75.00

150.00

112.50

225.00

150.00

300.00

187.50

375.00

225.00

450.00

75.00

150.00

 

Section 4 - Amendment of Article 15 of the said Schedule

In the said Schedule, in Article 15 (Bond), in the column relating to the "Proper stamp duty", for the words set out in column 1 of the table below, the words set out respectively against them in Column 2 thereof shall be substituted, namely:--

Column 1

Column 2

Rs. P.

Rs. P.

One rupee

One rupee and fifty paise

Two rupees and fifty paise

Three rupees

Four rupees and seventy-five paise

Five rupees and fifty paise

Nine rupees and fifty paise

Eleven rupees

Fourteen rupees and twenty-five paise

Sixteen rupees and fifty paise

Nineteen rupees

Twenty-two rupees

Twenty-three rupees and seventy-five paise.

Twenty-seven rupees and fifty paise

Twenty-eight rupees and fifty paise

Thirty-three rupees

Thirty-three rupees and twenty-five paise

Thirty-eight rupees and fifty paise

Thirty-eight rupees

Forty-four rupees

Forty-two rupees and seventy-five paise

Forty-nine rupees and fifty paise

Forty-seven rupees and fifty paise

Fifty-five rupees

Twenty-three rupees and seventy-five paise

Twenty-seven rupees and fifty paise.

 

Section 5 - Amendment of Article 23 of the said Schedule

In the said Schedule, in Article 23 (Conveyance), in the column relating to "Proper stamp duty" for the figures set out in Column 1 of the table below, the figures set out respectively against them in Column 2 thereof shall be substituted, namely:--

Column 1

Column 2

Rs. P.

Rs. P.

4.75

6.25

9.50

12.50

19.00

25.00

28.50

37.50

38.00

50.00

47.50

62.50

57.00

75.00

66.50

87.50

76.00

100.00

85.50

112.50

95.00

125.00

47.50

62.50

 

Section 6 - Substitution of Article 24 of the said Schedule

In the said Schedule, for Article 24 (Copy or extract), the following Article shall be substituted, namely:--

"24. 

Copy or extract certified to be a true copy or extract by or by order of any public officer and not chargeable under the law for the time being in force relating to court-fees--

(i) if the original was not chargeable with duty or if the duty with which it was chargeable does not exceed three rupees.

(ii) in any other case not falling within the provisions of section 6-A.

or

Two rupees and twenty-five paise when the copy or extract is of an agricultural lease or of a mortgage-deed or sale-deed of agricultural land; in any other case, five rupees.

Three rupees, when the copy or extract is of an agricultural lease or of a mortgage-deed or sale-deed of agricultural land and the value of the subject-matter of the original does not exceed one thousand rupees; in any other case ten rupees.

Exemption

(a) Copy of any paper which a public officer is expressly required by law to make or furnish for record in any public office or for any public purpose.

(b) Copy of, or extract from, any register relating to births, baptisms, namings dedications, marriages, divorces, deaths or burials."

 

 

Section 7 - Amendment of Article 48 of the said Schedule

In the said Schedule, in Article 48 (Power of Attorney)--

(a)      in clause (b), in the column relating to "Proper stamp duty." for the words "Six rupees" the words "Ten rupees" shall be substituted;

 

(b)      in clause (c), in the column relating to Proper stamp duty" for the words "Twenty-four rupees" the words "Fifty rupees" shall be substituted;

 

(c)      in clause (d), in the column relating to "Proper stamp duty" for the words "Forty-eight rupees" the words "One hundred rupees" shall be substituted.

 

(d)      In clause (f), in the column relating to "Proper stamp duty" for the words "Six rupees" the words "Ten rupees" shall be substituted.

Section 8 - Repeal and saving

(1)     The Indian Stamp (Uttar Pradesh Amendment) Ordinance, 1988 (U.P. Ordinance no. 6 of 1988), is hereby repealed.

 

(2)     Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the provisions of the Act referred to in section 2, as amended by the Ordinance referred to sub-section (1), shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of the said Act, as amended by this Act, as if the provisions of this Act were in force at all material time.