Clause 1
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Stamp Duties (Amendment) Act 1983.
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Stamp Duties (Amendment) Bill is Singapore Bill, cited as Bill 9 1983, currently marked not in force and first recorded in 1983.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Stamp Duties (Amendment) Act 1983.
Amendment of section 2
Section 2 of the Stamp Duties Act (referred to in this Act as the principal Act) is amended by deleting the definition of “cheque”.
Amendment of section 7
Section 7 of the principal Act is amended by deleting subsection (3) and substituting the following subsection:“(3) The officer in charge of any stamp office authorised by the Commissioner to issue impressed stamps shall, on presentation to him at his office of any instrument for the purpose of being stamped with an impressed stamp, affix to the instrument an impressed stamp or stamps denoting the amount of duty paid.”.
Amendment of section 8
Section 8 of the principal Act is amended by deleting the word “cheque,” in subsection (1).
Repeal of sections 9, 44 and 45
Sections 9, 44 and 45 of the principal Act are repealed.
Amendment of section 47
Section 47 of the principal Act is amended by deleting the word “cheque” in paragraph (a).
Miscellaneous amendments
The principal Act is amended by deleting the words “cheque or” in the following provisions: Sections 4(1)(b) and (c), 42, 43(1), (2) and (4) and 65(1)(a).
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