Section 51
Section 51
Every person having by law or consent of parties authority to receive evidence, and every person in charge of a public office,
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except an officer of police, before whom any instrument, chargeable, in his opinion, with duty, is produced or comes in the performance of his functions, shall, if it appears to him that such instrument is not duly stamped, impound the same.
(2)
For that purpose every such person shall examine every instrument so chargeable and so produced or coming before him in order to ascertain whether it is stamped with a stamp of the value and description required by the law in force in Malaysia when such instrument was executed or first executed:
Provided that—
(a)
nothing herein contained shall be deemed to require any
Magistrate or Judge to examine or impound, if he does not think fit to do so, any instrument coming before him in the course of any criminal proceeding;
(b)
in the case of a Judge of the High Court, the duty of examining and impounding any instrument under this section shall be performed by the Registrar.