Section 74 Stamp Duties Act

Section 74 of Stamp Duties Act 1939 is about Provisions as to proxies and voting papers. It provides as follows:

(1) Every letter or power of attorney for the purpose of appointing a proxy to vote at a meeting, and every voting paper, hereby respectively charged with the duty of two kobo, shall specify the day upon which the meeting at which it is intended to be used is to be held, and shall be available only at the meeting so specified, and any adjournment thereof.

(2) Every person who makes or executes, or votes, or attempts to vote, under or by means of any such letter or power of attorney or voting paper, not being duly stamped, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of one hundred naira, and every vote given or tendered under the authority or by means of the letter or power of attorney or voting paper, shall be void.