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 1870: Exemption: Bond, when executed by
1870.
Exemption: Bond, when executed by
any person
for the purpose
of
guaranteeing that the local income
derived from private subscription to
charitable dispensary or hospital or
any other object of public utility, shall
not be less than a specified sum per
mensem.
Cancellation, Instrument (including
any instrument
by which
any
instrument previously executed
is
(a) Rs. 1500/-(One thousand five
hundred)
(b) 0.15% of such share capital,
subject to a minimum of Rs. 1000/-
and a maximum of Rs. 5,00,000/-
(Five lakh)
Re. 1/- for every Rs. 1000/- or part
thereof, of the amount of the awarded
value of property to which the award
relates.
Rs. 500/-(Five hundred)
Rs. 3/- (Three) for every Rs. 100/-
(Hundred) of the value of the bond.
'{Rs, 1000/-(One thousand)
1. Subs by S.O. 1/M-169/2012-1026 daled 15.2.2013.
Schedule 1A }
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Source: India Code