Section 27, The Concessions Ordinance

(1) No instrument by which the rights or any portionthereof granted by any concession in respect of which the Court has issued a certificate of validity may be transferred, assigned or surrendered, shall take effect until the same shall have been stamped and registered in the office of the Registrar General under the General Registration Ordinance, or any Ordinance substituted for the same, and until a copy thereof, certified under the hand of the Registrar General, shall also be filed by the person entitled to the benefit thereof with the Registrar of the Court A memorandum endorsed on any such instrument and signed by the Registrar of the Court, in the words " certified copy filed," shall be conclusive evidence that the provisions of this section have been duly complied with. (2) Every such instrument shall be subject to a stamp duty, in addition to any other duty payable by law, of one pound for every square mile or portion of a square mile of the area in respect of which any rights are. thereby transferred, assigned or surrendered. This section and section 32 (1) shall be read with the Stamp Duty Ordinance.