Section 89 of Stamp Duty Act CAP 480: As to settlement of policy or security

Where any money which may become due or payable upon a policy of life insurance, or upon a security, not being a marketable security, is settled or agreed to be settled, the instrument whereby the settlement is made or agreed to be made shall be charged with ad valorem duty in respect of that money:
Provided that—
(i) where, in the case of a policy, no provision is made for keeping up the policy, the ad valorem duty shall be charged only on the value of the policy at the date of the instrument;
(ii) if in any such case the instrument contains a statement of the value and is stamped in accordance with the statement, it shall, so far as regards the policy, be deemed to be duly stamped, unless or until it is shown that the statement is untrue, and that the instrument is in fact insufficiently stamped.

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