In force · As amended up to 2026-08
Chapter VIII: SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS
73. Books, etc. to be open to inspection.— Every public officer having in
his custody any registers, books, records, papers, documents or proceedings, the
inspection whereof may tend to secure any duty, or to prove or lead to the discovery
of any fraud or omission in relation to any duty, shall at all reasonable times permit
any person authorised 'in writing by the Collector to inspect for such purpose the
registers, books, papers, documents and proceedings, and to take such notes and
extracts as they may deem necessary, without fee or charge.
74. Power to make rules relating to sale of stamps.—The State Government
may make rules for regulating—
(a) the supply and sale of stamps and stamped papers,
(b) the persons by whom alone such sale is to be conducted, and
(c) the duties and remuneration of such persons:
Provided that such rules shall not restrict the sale of ten naye paise or five
naye paise adhesive stamps.
{S.O. 1367 dated the 11th October, 1982— In exercise of the powers conferred by
clause (a) of sub-section (1) of Section 9 and Section 74 of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899
(Act no. 2 of 1899). the Governor of Bihar is ploased to make rules that the duties of Stamp
vendors and duties of Katibs (Deed writers) must not be performed by the same individual,
2.
In view of the cleanliness of the Administration and for checking forgery and
defaications it is highly desirable that the duties of a stamp vendor and that of deed writer
should not be performed by the same person or individual,
3. This notification will come
in force at once.
[There
is another notification also | Section 17: by or at the, charge of any public
17.
by or at the, charge of any public
charity.
Article
of Association
of
a
Company—
(a)
Where the Company has no
share capital.
(b)
When
the company
has
nominal share capital
or
increase the share capital.
Exemption:
Articles of any Association not
formed for profit and registered under
section 26 of Companies Act, 1956
(No. 1 of 1956)
Award, that is to say, any decision
in writing by an arbitrator or umpire,
not being an award directing a
partition, on
a reference made
otherwise than by an order of the
Court in the course of a suit-
(a)
Where the award is quantified
in monetary terms.
(b)
| Where the award does not lend
itself
to quantification
in
monetary terms.
Bond [as defined by section 2(5)]
not being a debenture (no. 27) and
not being otherwise provided for by
this Act, or by the Court Fees Act,
Source: India Code