Substitution of Schedule

For Schedule 1-A to the principal Act, the following Schedule shall be substituted, namely:—

“SCHEDULE 1-A Stamp Duty on Instruments (See Sections 3)

Description of Instruments (1)

Proper Stamp Duty (2)

1. Acknowledgement of a debt exceeding five hundred rupees in amount or value, written or signed by or on behalf of debtor in any book (other than a banker's pass book) or on a separate piece of paper, when such book or paper is left in the creditor's possession. Ten rupees.

2. Acknowledgement of receipt of payment of consideration on account of another deed, which has been previously registered. Five thousand rupees.

3. Administration-Bond, including a bond given under section 291, 375 and 376 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925 (39 of 1925) and Section 6 of the Government Savings Bank Act, 1873 (5 of 1873). The same duty as a bond (No. 14) for the same amount.

4. Adoption deed, that is to say, any instrument (other than a will) recording an adoption or conferring or purporting to confer an authority to adopt.