STAMP DUTIES ACT 1923 - SECT 19A
STAMP DUTIES ACT 1923 - SECT 19A
(1) Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Act, but subject to subsection (2), where an
original instrument chargeable with duty under this Act has not been duly
stamped or has been destroyed without being duly stamped, any copy of the
instrument shall, for the purposes of this Act, be chargeable with duty as if
it were the original and be deemed to have been executed by the person or
persons who executed the original at the same time as the original was
executed.
(2) Where an original
instrument or a copy of an instrument is duly stamped under this Act, the
Commissioner shall, upon application and production of that original or copy,
stamp any copy or further copy or the original, as the case may be, with a
particular stamp denoting that it is duly stamped.
(3) In this
section—
"copy" includes—
(a) a
duplicate or counterpart of an original instrument; or
(b) an
instrument that acknowledges, evidences or records the existence or terms of
an original instrument; or
(c) an
instrument that acknowledges, evidences or records the transaction or a part
of the transaction to which an original instrument relates or related.