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| (1) No instrument chargeable with stamp duty shall be received or admitted in evidence by any person having by law or consent of parties authority to receive evidence or registered or authenticated or acted upon by any parson or by any officer in a public office or corporation or bank or approved credit agency unless such instrument is duly stamped: |
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| (2) Where any instrument has been admitted in evidence under the proviso to subsection (1), such admission shall not be called in question at any stage of the same suit or proceeding on the ground that such instrument has not been duly stamped. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts