(i) memorandum of appearance filed by advocates or pleaders when appearing for persons proceeded against in criminal cases;
(ii) application or petition to a Collector or other officer making a settlement of land revenue, or to the Board of Revenue relating to matters connected with the assessment of land, or with the ascertainment of rights thereto or interest therein, if presented previous to the final confirmation of such settlement;
(iii) application for supply of water belonging to Government for irrigation;
(iv) application for leave to extend cultivation or to relinquish land, when presented to an officer of land revenue by a person holding, under a direct engagement with Government, land of which revenue is settled but not permanently;
(v) application for service of notice of relinquishment of land or of enhancement of rent;
(vi) written authority to an agent to distrain;
(vii) first application (other than a petition containing a criminal charge or information) for the summons of a witness or other person to give evidence or to produce a document or for the production or filing of an exhibit not being an affidavit made for the immediate purpose of being produced in Court;
(viii) bail bonds in criminal cases other than bail bonds in village courts, recognizances to prosecute or give evidence and recognizances for personal appearance or otherwise;
(ix) petition, application, charge or information respecting any offence when presented, made or laid to or before a police officer, or to or before the heads of villages or the village police;
1. Inserted by the Act No.22 of 2005, S.2 w.e.f 16.08.2005.
(x) petition by a prisoner or other person in duress or under restraint of any Court or its officer;
(xi) complaint of a public servant as defined in Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Central Act 45 of 1860) or an officer of the State Railway relating to matters arising out of, or in connection with, the discharge of his official duty;
(xii) application for the payment of money due by the Government to the applicant, other than an application for refund of lapsed deposit made six months after the date on which the amount lapsed to the Government;
(xiii) petition of appeal against any municipal tax;
(xiv) application for compensation under any law for the time being in force relating to the acquisition of property for public purposes;
(xv) petition or appeal by a Government servant or a servant of the Court of Wards when presented to any superior officer or Government against orders of dismissal, reduction or suspension; copies of such orders filed with such appeals, and applications for obtaining such copies.
1[(xvi) Plaints, memorandum of appeal, all types of petitions and applications, memorandum of appearance and vakalatnamas filed by the State Government or its lawyers before any court, tribunal or other authority.]
68. Power to reduce or remit fees - The State Government may, by notification in the 1[Andhra Pradesh Gazette,] reduce or remit, in the whole or in any part of the territory of this State, or any of the fees chargeable under this Act, and may, in like manner, cancel or vary such notification.
CHAPTER VIII MISCELLANEOUS
69. Collection of fees by stamps - All fees chargeable under this Act shall be collected in stamps.
70. Stamps to be impressed or adhesive - The stamps used to denote any fee chargeable under this Act shall be impressed or adhesive or partly impressed and partly adhesive, as the State Government may, by notification in the 2[Andhra Pradesh Gazette,] from time to time, direct.
71. Amended document - Where any document which ought to bear a stamp under this Act is amended merely for correcting a mistake and making it conform to the original intention of the parties, it shall not be necessary to impose a fresh stamp.
72. Cancellation of stamp - (1) No document requiring a stamp under this Act shall be filed or acted upon in any proceeding in any Court or office until the stamp has been cancelled.
(2) The officer appointed from time to time by the Court or the head of the office shall, on receiving any such document effect forthwith such cancellation by punching out the figurehead so as to leave the amount designated on the stamp untouched, and the part removed by punching shall be destroyed.
73. Deduction to be made - Where allowance is made in this Act for damaged or spoiled stamps, or where fee already paid is directed to be refunded to any
1. Added by the Act No. 20 of 1992, S.2, w.e.f.01.05.1992.
2. Substituted for the words “Andhra Gazette” by the Andhra Pradesh Adoption of Laws Order,
1957.
person by an order of Court, the Collector may, on the application of the person concerned, pay to him the amount of fee or where damaged or spoiled stamps are produced, he may, after satisfying himself about their genuineness, give in lieu thereof the same amount or value in stamps of the same or any other description, or if the applicant so desires, the same amount or value in money provided that in all cases where money is paid in cash, a deduction shall be made of 1[six naye paise for each rupee or fraction thereof.] No such deduction shall, however, be made where refund is claimed in respect of any fee paid in pursuance of an order of Court which has been varied or reversed in appeal.
74. Penalty - Any person appointed to sell stamps, who disobeys any rule made under this Act, and any person not so appointed, who sells or offers for sale any stamps, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.