Section 17 of Stamp Duty Act CAP 480: Adjudication

(1) Any person who is dissatisfied with the assessment of the collector may, within thirty days after the date of the assessment, and on payment of duty in conformity therewith, or on securing the...

(1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (3) of this section and to the provisions of sections 20 and 21, no instrument chargeable with stamp duty shall be received in evidence in any proceedings...

(1) Where an instrument is chargeable with stamp duty under this Act and should have been stamped before a certain event or before the expiration of a certain period, but has not been so stamped, a...

Subject to the provisions of this Act, where an instrument bears a stamp of sufficient amount but of improper description, it may, on payment of the duty with which it is chargeable and of a penalty...

Notwithstanding any written law to the contrary, a bill of exchange which is presented for acceptance, or accepted, or payable, outside Kenya, or a cheque, whether presented for acceptance, or...

Every instrument executed out of Kenya by any person, not being a bill of exchange or a promissory note, shall, before being used, brought into force or registered, within Kenya, be stamped according...

If the Senior Collector of Stamp Duties is satisfied that an instrument has been erroneously assessed with duty or penalty, he may, if application for a refund is made at any time within one year...

(1) Where any minimum amount is prescribed below which stamp duty shall not be payable, no person shall execute more instruments than would ordinarily be necessary for the transaction in question in...

Any person executing an instrument in contravention of the provisions of section 25 shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand shillings.

Where interest or Islamic finance return is expressly made payable by the terms of an instrument, the instrument shall not be chargeable with duty higher than that with which it would have been...

Where the amount or value of the subject-matter of any instrument chargeable with ad valorem duty cannot be, or (in the case of an instrument executed before the commencement of this Act) could not...

(1) All duties, penalties and other sums required to be paid by way of or in connexion with stamp duty under this Act or any other written law may be recovered by a collector as a civil debt...

(1) Every instrument under hand only (not being a promissory note or bill of exchange) given upon the occasion of a deposit of any share warrant or stock certificate to bearer, or Commonwealth or...

For the purposes of this Act, "bill of exchange" includes draft, order, cheque and letter of credit, and any other document or writing entitling or purporting to entitle any person, whether named...

(1) For the purposes of this Act, "promissory note" includes any document or writing containing a promise to pay any sum of money. (2) A note promising the payment of any sum of money out of any...

(1) A person into whose hands a bill of exchange or promissory note drawn or made out of Kenya comes into Kenya before it is stamped shall, before he presents for payment, or endorses, transfers or in...

A bill of exchange or promissory note which purports to be drawn or made out of Kenya shall, for the purpose of determining the mode in which the stamp duty thereon is to be denoted, be deemed to have...

(1) Every person who issues, endorses, transfers, negotiates, presents for payment or pays a bill of exchange or promissory note liable to duty and not being duly stamped shall be guilty of an offence...

Where a bill of exchange is drawn in a set according to the custom of merchants, and one of the set is duly stamped, the other or others of the set shall, unless issued or in some manner negotiated...

A statement of the amount which is to form the nominal share capital of any company to be registered with limited liability shall be delivered to the Registrar of Companies and a statement of the...

(1) For the purposes of this Act, "contract note" means the note sent by a broker or agent to his principal, or by any person who by way of business deals, or holds himself out as dealing, as a...

(1) Any person who effects any sale or purchase of any stock or marketable security as a broker or agent, and any person who by way of business deals, or holds himself out as dealing, as a principal...

(1) The provisions of this Act as to contract notes shall apply to any contract under which an option is given or taken to purchase or sell any stock or marketable security at a future time at a...

(1) For the purposes of this Act, "conveyance on sale" includes— (a) an instrument, and a decree or order of a court, whereby any property, or any estate or interest in property, upon the sale...

(1) Where the consideration, or any part of the consideration, for a conveyance on sale consists of any stock or marketable security, the conveyance shall be charged with ad valorem duty in respect of...

(1) Where the consideration, or any part of the consideration, for a conveyance on sale consists of money payable periodically for a definite period not exceeding twenty years, so that the total...

A conveyance on sale made for any consideration in respect whereof it is chargeable with ad valorem duty, and in further consideration of a covenant by the purchaser to make, or of his having...

Where any property is conveyed to any person in consideration, wholly or in part, of any debt due to him, or subject either certainly or contingently to the payment or transfer of any money or stock,...

(1) Where property contracted to be sold for one consideration for the whole is conveyed to the purchaser in separate parts or parcels by different instruments, the consideration shall be apportioned...

(1) Any agreement or memorandum of an agreement for the sale of any estate or interest in any property (except lands, tenements or hereditaments, or property locally situated out of Kenya, or goods,...

(1) Where upon the sale of any annuity or other right not before in existence the annuity or other right is not created by actual grant or conveyance, but is only secured by bond, warrant of attorney,...

The parties may determine for themselves which of several instruments shall be deemed to be the principal instrument and may pay the ad valorem duty thereon accordingly: Provided that the duty...

(1) Any conveyance or transfer operating as a voluntary disposition inter vivos shall be chargeable with stamp duty as if it were a conveyance or transfer on sale, with the substitution in each case...

Every instrument, and every decree or order of any court, whereby any property on any occasion, except a sale or mortgage, is transferred to or vested in any person, shall be charged with duty as a...

The duplicate or counterpart of an instrument chargeable with duty shall not be deemed to be duly stamped unless it is stamped as an original instrument, or unless it appears by some stamp impressed...

(1) An agreement for a lease, or in respect of any letting, shall be charged with the same duty as if it were an actual lease made for the term and consideration mentioned in the agreement. (2) A...

Every lease shall, so far as the consideration therefor consists of rent, whether reserved as a yearly rent or otherwise, be charged with duty in accordance with the heading Lease in the Schedule.

A lease shall, so far as the consideration therefor consists of any premium or other consideration whatsoever other than rent, moving either to the lessor or to any other person, be charged with ad...

A lease granted in perpetuity shall be charged with ad valorem stamp duty as if it were a conveyance on sale, and the duty shall be computed on the value of the property.

(1) Where the consideration, or any part of the consideration, for which a lease is granted or agreed to be granted, consists of any produce or other goods, the value of the produce or goods shall be...

(1) An instrument, whereby the rent reserved by any other instrument chargeable with duty and duly stamped as a lease is increased, shall not be charged with duty otherwise than as a lease in...

A lease granted for a consideration which in the opinion of the Collector is inadequate, unless it is a lease granted by the Government, shall, in respect of the consideration therefor, be charged in...

Where, in the opinion of the Collector, the amount of the consideration for a lease cannot be ascertained with reasonable accuracy, he may either disregard that consideration to the extent to which...

(1) Every licence relating to immovable property shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to be a lease by the grantor of the licence to the grantee, and shall be charged with duty...

Marketable securities for the purpose of the charge of duty thereon, whether or not transferable by delivery, include— (a) a marketable security made or issued by or on behalf of any company or body...

Every person who in Kenya makes, issues, assigns, transfers, negotiates or offers for subscription any foreign security or Commonwealth government security, not being duly stamped, shall be guilty of...

A collector may at any time, without reference to the date thereof, allow a foreign security or Commonwealth government security to be stamped without the payment of any penalty, upon being satisfied,...

An instrument used for the purpose of assigning, transferring or in any manner negotiating the right to any marketable security, share or stock shall, if the delivery thereof is by usage treated as...

(1) For the purposes of this Act, "mortgage" means a legal charge or security by way of mortgage for the payment of any definite or certain sum of money advanced or lent at the time, or previously due...

In any mortgage under which— (a) a financial institution provides an Islamic finance arrangement that enables a person to own property or land; and (b) where the title or interest in the property or...