3. Section 38 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor:-
| 38. Every person having by law or consent of parties authority to receive evidence, and every person in charge of a public office, except an officer of police, before whom any instrument chargeable in his opinion with duty is produced or comes in the performance of his functions, shall, if it appears to him that such instrument is not stamped with a stamp of the value and description required by the law in force in Ceylon when such instrument was executed or first executed, impound such instrument, and examine such instrument in order to ascertain whether it is stamped with a stamp of the value and description required by the law in force in Ceylon when such instrument was executed or first executed: |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts