Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsStamping of duplicate of certain instruments
| 12. Where any instrument chargeable with stamp duty (not being a draft, order, or promissory note for the payment of money or a receipt or discharge for or upon the payment of money) is executed or acknowledged before a notary public or fiscal in the execution of his office, the stamp duty chargeable on such instrument shall be chargeable on the duplicate or counterpart thereof, instead of on the original instrument and the original instrument shall bear a stamp of one rupee. |