KARACHI, June 19: Sindh Governor Mohammedmian Soomro on Wednesday promulgated the Stamp (Sindh Amendment) Ordinance, 2002, which will come into force immediately.

Under the Ordinance, in the Stamp Act, 1899, in its application to Sindh:

In Section 23-A, for “Article 5(c)”, the word and figure “Article (e)” shall be substituted.

In Section 24, for the word and figure “Article 18”, “Article II” shall be substituted.

In Sections 27-A and 27-B (inserted by Sindh Ordinance VII of 2000), for the word and figure “Article 23”, “Article 16” and for “Article 31”, “Article 18”, shall be substituted.

In Section 27-B (inserted by Sindh Ordinance VII of 2000), for the word and figure “Article 33”, “Article 20” shall be substituted.

The Section 27-B (inserted by Sindh Ordinance XV of 2000) shall be renumbered as Section 27-C and in the section so renumbered, for the word and figure “Article 48”, the word and figure “Article 27” shall be substituted.

In section 29, in clause (a), for the figure “6” the figure “19”, for “13” the figure “8”, for “15,16,26,27,34, 56, and 57” the figure”10”, for “32” and 40” the figure “23”, for “49” the figure “28”, for “55” the figure “29”, for “58” the figure “30”, and for “62”, the figure “31”, shall be substituted.—APP