Stamp Duties Act(CHAPTER 312)
Table of Contents
Long Title
Part I PRELIMINARY
1 Short title
2 Interpretation
3 Commissioner and Deputy Commissioners of Stamp Duties
Part II PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO INSTRUMENTS GENERALLY
Liability of instruments to duty
4 Instruments chargeable with duty
Payment of duty
5 All facts and circumstances to be set out
6 Instrument relating to distinct matters
7 Mode of payment
8 Franking of certain instruments
9 Composition of duty on receipts
10 How instruments are to be written and stamped
11 Where duty chargeable depends on duty paid on another instrument
12 Counterparts
Valuation for duty
13 Currency and securities
14 Instruments reserving interest
Part III PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO PARTICULAR INSTRUMENTS
15 Relief from stamp duty in case of reconstructions or amalgamations of companies
16 Voluntary conveyance inter vivos
17 How conveyance in consideration of debt or subject to future payment, etc., to be charged
18 Duties on foreclosure orders
19 Valuation in case of annuity
20 Direction as to duty in cases of certain conveyances
21 Conveyances and transfers in contemplation of sale
22 Certain contracts to be chargeable as conveyances on sale
23 Sale of annuity or right not before in existence
24 What is to be deemed a conveyance, not being a sale or mortgage
25 Leases, how to be charged in respect of produce, etc.
26 Directions as to duty upon leases, etc.
27 Direction as to duty upon mortgages, etc.
28 Settlement of policy of life insurance
29 Security for future advances, how to be charged
30 Certain mortgages of stock to be exempt from duty
31 Directions as to sea policy
32 Legal alteration in policies may be made
33 Directions as to certain contract notes
Part IV LIABILITY FOR PAYMENT OF DUTY
34 Duty by whom payable
35 Obligation to give receipts
36 Exemptions
Part V ADJUDICATION AS TO STAMPS
37 Mode of adjudication as to proper stamp duty
38 Certificate by Commissioner
39 Exception to sections 37 and 38
40 Appeal to High Court
41 Stamping after adjudication
Part VI TIME OF STAMPING INSTRUMENTS
42 Instruments executed in Singapore
43 Instruments executed outside Singapore
44 Promissory notes drawn outside Singapore
45 Transfers of shares
46 Stamping of instruments after execution
47 Period of time for stamping to commence on day after execution
48 Denoting penalty
49 Persons liable to penalty
50 Penalty, how recoverable
Part VII INSTRUMENTS NOT DULY STAMPED
51 Examination and impounding of instruments
52 Instruments not duly stamped inadmissible in evidence
53 Instruments impounded how dealt with
54 Special provision as to unstamped receipts
55 Recovery of duty and penalty
56 Liability of any person to pay full duty or penalty unaffected by erroneous assessment
Part VIII ALLOWANCE FOR SPOILED STAMPS
57 Allowance for spoiled stamps
58 Allowance for misused stamps
59 Allowance, how to be made
60 Stamp may be repurchased
Part IX OFFENCES AND PENALTIES
61 Not cancelling adhesive stamps
62 Penalty for not setting forth all the facts and circumstances
63 Penalty for refusal to give receipt or attempt to evade duty on receipts
64 Penalty for executing and signing documents not duly stamped
65 Penalty for postdating promissory notes
66 Proxies
67 Penalty for not making out policy other than on sea insurance or making one not duly stamped
68 Penalty for assuring on sea insurance unless under policy duly stamped
69 Penalty for enrolling, etc., instrument not duly stamped
70 Fraud in relation to duty
71 Institution and conduct of prosecution
Part X MISCELLANEOUS
72 Books, etc., in the custody of public officers may be inspected without fee
73 Commissioner may require declaration, etc.
74 Responsibility for loss or damage
75 Power to reduce, remit or compound duties
76 Refund and repayment of duty
77 Moneys to be paid into Consolidated Fund
78 Rules
79 Power to amend Schedules
Legislative History