Indian Stamp Act, 1899

Section - 9 - Power to reduce, remit or compound duties

Power to reduce, remit or compound duties.

9.[(1)] The [***] Government may, by rule or order published in the Official Gazette,-

(a)- reduce or remit, whether prospectively or retrospectively, in the whole or any part of the territories under its administration, the duties with which any instruments or any particular class of instruments, or any of the instruments belonging to such class, or any instruments when executed by or in favour of any particular class of persons, or by or in favour of any members of such class, are chargeable, and
(b)- provide for the composition or consolidation of duties [of policies of insurance and] in the case of issues by any incorporated company or other body corporate [or of transfers (where there is a single transferee, whether incorporated or not)] of debentures, bonds or other marketable securities.
[(2) In this section, the expression "the Government" means,-

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