Chapter VII PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTION OF STAMPS

(1) The Trustee Committee shall cause to be printed and distributed the stamps of the value of the rupees eight and with the Bar Council emblem and its value inscribed thereon.

(2) The Stamps shall be of the size 28mm x 39mm and shall be sold by the Trustee Committee.

(3) The custody of the Stamps shall be with the Trustee Committee.

(4) The Trustee Committee shall control the distribution and sale of the stamps through Bar Associations and Licensed Stamp Vendors in such manner and procedure as may be provided by regulations.

(5) The Trustee Committee shall keep proper accounts of the Stamps in such form and in such manner as may be provided by regulations.

(6) The Bar Associations and Licensed Stamp Vendors shall purchase the Stamps from the Trustee Committee after paying the value thereof less ten per cent of such value towards incidental expenses.

(1) Every Vakalatnama filed by any Advocate or member, shall be affixed with one stamp of the value of rupees fifteen in case of vakalatnama filed in the High Court or a Tribunal, the Punjab Board of Revenue or any other quasi-judicial authority in addition to the required Court Fee Stamp and no vakalatnama shall be filed before or received by any Court unless it is so stamped:

Provided that the provision of this sub-section shall not apply to any vakalatnama filed by or on behalf of the Central or the State Government.

(1-a) However one rupee from the value of the stamp so affixed on every 'Vakalatnama' shall go to the fund created under "The Punjab State Cancer and Drug Addiction Treatment Infrastructure Fund Act, 2013.

(2) The value of the Stamp shall neither be the cost in the case nor be received or collected in any event from the client.

(3) Any contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) by any member of the Fund, shall disentitle him either in whole or in part to the benefits of the Fund and the Trustee Committee shall report such instances to the Bar Council for appropriate action.

Every Stamp affixed on vakalatnama under section 20 filed in any court, shall be cancelled in the manner provided under the section 30 of the Court Fees Act, 1870.