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Stamp Duty (Amendment) Act (No. 71 of 1988) - Sect 4

Amendment of section 5 of the principal enactment

4. Section 5 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows :
(i) in paragraph (12) of that section, by the substitution for the words "instrument executed by", of the words "instrument, other than an application for a letter of credit made to an approved credit agency, trust receipt or a letter of trust or declaration of a trust in respect of corporal movables in favour of any such agency or any contract mentioned in paragraph (ee) of section 24, executed by, " ;
(ii) in paragraph (14) of that section, by the insertion immediately after sub-paragraph (e) of that paragraph of the following paragraphs:
"(ee) all documents filed by or on behalf of any person, who is certified by a prescribed officer as suing, defending or intervening with legal aid provided under The Legal Aid Law, No. 27 of 1978;
(eee) all documents filed in any court by, or on behalf of any person claiming damages arising from death or damage caused by a motor vehicle.; and
(iii) by the addition immediately after paragraph (21) of that section of the following paragraph :
" (22) instrument executed in pursuance of the provisions of the Farmers Pension and Social Security Benefit Scheme Act, No. 12 of 1987."-.


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