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Cancellation of stamp.—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 the 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. Tripura Amendment of Section 30.—In Section 30 of the principal Act, after the existing text, the following proviso shall be added- “Provided that, where court-fee is paid by electronic transfer of 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”. [Vide Tripura Act 17 of 2020, s. 8] Bihar Insertion of new Chapter V-A in Act VII of 1870.---After Chapter V of the Court-fees Act, 1870 (Act VII of 1870) (hereinafter referred to the said Act) the following Chapter and Section shall be inserted, namely:- "Chapter V-A.-Levy of Additional Surcharge. 30-A. The fees leviable under the Act, shall be increased in each case by an additional surcharge at the rate of ten per centum of the amount of the Court Fees." 25 [Vide Bihar Act 20 of 1977, s. 2] CHAPTER VI MISCELLANEOUS