section 24
Certain instruments connected with mortgages of marketable securities to be chargeable as agreements
The Kerala Stamp Act, 1959Chapter 11 i
(1) Where an instrument-(a) is given upon the occasion of the deposit of any marketable security by way of security for money advanced or to be advanced by way of loan, or for an existing or future debt; or (b) makes redeemable or qualifies a duly stamped transfer, intended as a security, of any marketable security, it shall be chargeable with duty as if it were an agreement or memorandum of an agreement chargeable with duty under Article 5 of the Schedule. (2) A release or discharge of any such instrument shall be chargeable with the like duty, (a) Where the amount does not exceed Rs. 1,000: The same duty as Bottomry Bond (No. 14) for such amount. (b) In any other case: Fifteen rupees.
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