Stamp Duties (Amendment) Bill

Bill No. 9/1983

Read the first time on 30th August 1983.

An Act to amend the Stamp Duties Act (Chapter 147 of the Revised Edition).

Be it enacted by the President with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Singapore, as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Stamp Duties (Amendment) Act 1983.

Amendment of section 2

2. Section 2 of the Stamp Duties Act (referred to in this Act as the principal Act) is amended by deleting the definition of “cheque”.

Amendment of section 7

3. Section 7 of the principal Act is amended by deleting subsection (3) and substituting the following subsection:

“(3) The officer in charge of any stamp office authorised by the Commissioner to issue impressed stamps shall, on presentation to him at his office of any instrument for the purpose of being stamped with an impressed stamp, affix to the instrument an impressed stamp or stamps denoting the amount of duty paid.”.

Amendment of section 8

4. Section 8 of the principal Act is amended by deleting the word “cheque,” in subsection (1).

Repeal of sections 9, 44 and 45

5. Sections 9, 44 and 45 of the principal Act are repealed.

Amendment of section 47

6. Section 47 of the principal Act is amended by deleting the word “cheque” in paragraph (a).

Miscellaneous amendments

7. The principal Act is amended by deleting the words “cheque or” in the following provisions:

Sections 4(1)(b) and (c), 42, 43(1), (2) and (4) and 65(1)(a).

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