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Section 45: Sale of stamps.

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

(1) The State Government may, from time to time make rules for regulating the sale of stamps to be used under this Act, the persons by whom alone such sale is to be conducted, and the duties and remuneration of such persons.

(2) All such rules shall be published in the Official Gazette and shall thereupon have the force of law.

(3) Any person appointed to sell stamps who disobeys any rule made under this section, and any person not so appointed who sells or offers for sale any stamp, shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to [two thousand rupees, but which shall not be less than five hundred rupees], or with both.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Maharashtra Court-fees Act
Section45
Marginal noteSale 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.

  • substituted, Mah. 18 of 2002. These words were substituted for the words "five hundred rupees" by Mah. 18 of 2002, s. 5.

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