Instruments executed out of India

(1) Every instrument chargeable with duty executed only out of India may be stamped within three months after it has been first received in the State of Kerala. (2) Where any such instrument cannot, with reference to the description of stamp prescribed therefor, be duly stamped by a private person, it may be taken within the said period of three months to the Collector who shall stamp the same, in such manner as the Government may by rules prescribe, with a stamp of such value as the person so taking such instrument may require and pay for. that is to say, any instrument except an agreement for the hire of a tugsteamer whereby a vessel or some specified principal part thereof is let for the specified purpose of the charterer whether it includes a penalty clause or not: Two rupees fifty naye paise.