Bare ActsThe Kerala Stamp Act, 1959

Section 24

Certain instruments connected with mortgages of marketable securi ties to be chargeable as agreements

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(1) Where an instrument (a) is given upon the occasion of the deposit of any marketable secu rity by way of security for money advanced or to be advanced by way of loan, or for an existing or future debt; or (b) marks redeemable or qualifies a duly stamped transfer, intended as a security, of any marketable security; It shall be chargeable with duty as if it were an agreement or memorandum of an agreement chargeable with duty under Article 5 of the Schedule. (2) A release or discharge of any such instrument shall be chargeable with the like duty.

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