Skip to content

Section 58

Allowance for misused stamps

of Stamp Act 1949

ActIn forceProvision 80 of 149
Section 58

When any person has inadvertently used for an instrument liable to duty a stamp of greater value than was necessary, or has inadvertently used a stamp for an instrument not liable to any duty, the

Collector may, on application made within twenty-four months after the date of the instrument, or, if it is not dated, within twenty-four months after the execution thereof by the person by whom it was first or alone executed, and upon the instrument, if liable to duty, being stamped with the proper duty cancel and allow as spoiled the stamp so misused.