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Section 37. Stamping documents inadvertently received.
THE HIMACHAL PRADESH COURT FEES ACT, 1968
Act no. 8 of 19681968In forceHimachal Pradesh (State Act)
37. Stamping documents inadvertently received.- No document which ought to bear a stamp under this Act shall be of any validity, unless and until it is properly stamped, but if any such document is through mistake or inadvertence received, filed or used in any Court or office, without being properly stamped, the presiding Judge or the head of the office, as the case may be, or in the case of the High Court, any Judge of such Court may, if he thinks fit, order that such document be stamped as he may direct; and, on such document being stamped accordingly, the same and every proceeding relative thereto shall be as valid as if it had been properly stamped in the first instance.