Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In the Kerala Stamp Act, 1959 (17 of 1959), in the SCHEDULE,-- (1) in serial number 31, in clause (i), for the entry in column (2), the following entry shall be substituted, namely:-- "Where the gift is in favour of father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, husband, wife, son, daughter, brother, sister or grandchildren of a person."; (2) in serial number 42,-- (a) in clause (i), for the entry in column (3), the following entry shall be substituted, namely:-- "One rupee for every rupees 100 or part thereof of the fair value of the separated share or shares of land and the value of other properties in such separated share or shares set forth in the instrument or of the value of all the properties of the separated share or shares as set forth in the instrument, whichever is higher, subject to a maximum of rupees 1000."; (b) for the Explanation, the following Explanation shall be substituted, namely:-- "Explanation.-- Family means father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, husband, wife, son, daughter, grandchildren, brother, sister and legal heirs of the deceased children, if any, as the case may be."; (3) in serial number 48, for clause (a) and the entries against it in columns (2) and (3), the following clause and entries shall, respectively be substituted, namely:-- "(a) When such release operates in favour of father, mother, grandfather grandmother, husband, wife, son, daughter, brother, sister, grandchildren or legal heirs of the deceased children of a person. One rupee for every rupees 100 or part thereof of the amount of the fair value of the land and the value of other properties or claims of which the right is relinquished in proportion to the right relinquished or the value of all the properties or claims of which the right is relinquished in proportion to the right relinquished or consideration for the release, whichever is higher, subject to a maximum of rupees 1000."; (4) in serial number 51, in clause (a), in sub-clause (i), for the entry in column (2), the following entry shall be substituted, namely:-- "Where the settlement is in favour of father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, husband, wife, son, daughter, brother, sister or grandchildren of a person."