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Section 42: Cancellation of stamps.

The Maharashtra Court-fees ActState Act of Maharashtra · Act 36 of 1959

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.

Such officer as the Court or the head of office may from time to time appoint shall, on receiving any such document, forthwith effect such cancellation by punching out the figure-head so as to leave the amount designated on the stamp untouched, and the part removed by punching shall be burnt or otherwise destroyed :

[Provided that, where court-fee is paid by e-payment, the officer competent to cancel stamp shall verify the genuineness of the payment and after satisfying himself that the court-fee is paid, shall lock the entry in the computer and make an endorsement under his signature on the document that the court-fee is paid and the entry is locked].

Where this provision sits

ActThe Maharashtra Court-fees Act
Section42
Marginal noteCancellation of stamps.
JurisdictionState of Maharashtra
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • added, Mah. 25 of 2011. This proviso was added by Mah. 25 of 2011, s. 7.

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