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Section 18. Instruments executed out of India.

THE KARNATAKA STAMP ACT, 1957

Act no. 34 of 19571957In forceKarnataka (State Act)

18. 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 1[State of Karnataka]1. (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 1[Deputy Commissioner]1 who shall stamp the same, in such manner as the Government may by rule prescribe, with a stamp of such value as the person so taking such instrument may require and pay for.