New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DUTIES ACT 1997 - SECT 296

296 Stamping of instruments after execution

(1) Except where otherwise expressly provided by this or another Act, a person liable with respect to any instrument chargeable with duty or any dutiable transaction must cause the instrument, or an instrument that effects or evidences the transaction, to be duly stamped or, in accordance with the provisions of this Act marked "interim stamp only" within 6 months after it was first executed.

: Maximum penalty--100 penalty units.

Note--: An offence against subsection (1) committed by a corporation is an executive liability offence attracting executive liability for a director or other person involved in the management of the corporation--see section 121 of the Taxation Administration Act 1996 .

(2) For the purposes of this section, a written statement that is required to be stamped is taken to be first executed when the transaction to which the statement relates occurs.