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Section 72A

Any person who—

of Stamp Act 1949

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Section 72A

(a)

sells or offers for sale a stamp certificate;

(b)

fraudulently attaches a stamp certificate to an instrument other than the instrument for which the stamp certificate was issued;

(c)

fraudulently detaches a stamp certificate or fraudulently causes a stamp certificate to be detached from the instrument;

(d)

counterfeits, or knowingly performs any part of the process of counterfeiting, any stamp certificate issued by the

Collector;

(e)

sells or offers for sale any certificate which he knows or ought reasonably to know to be a counterfeit of any stamp certificate issued by the Collector;

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(f)

has in his possession any certificate which he knows to be a counterfeit of any stamp certificate, intending to use or dispose of it as a genuine stamp certificate in order that it may be used as a genuine stamp certificate; or

(g)

uses as a genuine stamp certificate knowing it to be a counterfeit of any stamp certificate, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine

*of not less than two thousand five hundred ringgit and not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit.

Penalty for failure to keep record and other offences