Section 19 of The Kerala Stamp Act, 1959 (No.17 of 1959) View Chapter 2

Payment of duty on certain instruments liable to increased duty in the State of Kerala:

Where any instrument of the nature described in any article in the Schedule and relating to any property situate or to any matter or thing done or to be done in the State of Kerala is executed out of the said State and subsequently received in the said State:-

(a) the amount of duty chargeable on such instrument shall be the amount of duty chargeable under the Schedule on a document of the like description executed in the State of Kerala less the amount of duty, if any, already paid on such instrument, in any other State in India.

(b) and in addition to the stamps, if any, already affixed thereto such instrument shall be stamped with the stamps necessary for the payment of the duty chargeable on it under clause (a) of this section, in the same manner and at the same time and by the same parsons as though such instrument were as instrument received in the State of Kerala for the first time at the time when it became chargeable with the higher duty, and

(c) the provisions contained in clause (b) of the proviso to subsection (3) of section 32 shall apply to such instrument as if such were an instrument executed or first executed out of India and first received in the State of Kerala when it became chargeable to the higher duty aforesaid, but the provision contained in clause (a) of the said proviso shall not apply thereto.